RBLI

Britain’s Bravest Manufacturing Company has invested in a new pallet shredder from UNTHA UK, to enhance the team’s production of materials for the biomass industry.

Established in 1919, BBMC – the social enterprise of charity Royal British Legion Industries – has long strived to support the lives of ex-service personnel. However, as the years have passed, the Aylesford-based company has gone on to also provide employment opportunities to non-veterans including people with disabilities and those out of work. More than 100 such individuals staff a £5m turnover factory, one of five divisions within the registered RBLI charity.

A new UNTHA LR1400 has just been commissioned within this factory. Having previously used a second-hand machine from a different manufacturer, the organisation’s incumbent technology was unreliable, and repeated breakdowns were putting a strain on the workflow.

Now processing up to 15 tonnes of waste timber per week, UNTHA’s single shaft LR1400 shredder is top-loaded via a forklift before producing a homogenous 50mm fraction. An overband magnet extracts any metals for reinsertion into the recycling stream, with the resulting product supplied to Jenkinsons for the biomass market.