Sims Metal Management run 27 Teletruks Sims Metal Management run 27 Teletruks in their End of Life Vehicle and White Goods recycling operations in the UK. The fleet is all 3.5 tonnes capacity – model TLT 35D 2WD with twin-front wheels. Sims is the leading worldwide metals recycling company. The majority of the fleet comprises 22 machines at work in Sims ELV Stations around the UK. The other five machines are at the world's largest fridge recycling plant in Newport, South Wales, which is capable of de-polluting 1 million fridges a year. Sims Metal Management recycles around 500,000 scrap cars each year in the UK, and operates from over 30 sites. Sims is the world's largest metals recycler and operates across Europe, the USA and Asia. The Sims Group took their first decision to install Teletruks in each of their UK ELV stations in 2005. With these years of Teletruk experience behind them, Sims are convinced about the benefits of forwards reach combined with excellent visibility for the operator.

Sims are passionate about site safety, and they are convinced that Teletruk is the best machine for the job. This has been their view since 2004 following evaluation trails. The JCB Teletruk - designed for ELV The JCB Teletruk counterbalanced forklift uses its unique telescopic forwards reach to place incoming ELV cars in holding bays or de-contamination stations. Maximum lift capacity 3.5 tonnes – on small forklift footprint 1800mm forks with 360 degree rotator and unique 111 degree tilt up or down Twin front wheels for extra stability and maximum control Total sealed hydrostatic drive 4 x 4 option for difficult yard surfacesIt's not just another counterbalanced forklift French waste collection and recycling group OURRY S.A.has a specialist operation for salvage and disposal of tyre casings on its site at Champdeuil, near Melun. From the start OURRY has been using Teletruks. M Hubert Husson, the site manager, quickly realised that the Teletruk was going to be the perfect machine for this activity because the site has specific characteristics.

M Husson: " We are involved in collection from diverse tyres distributors, our main client being Centres Autos Leclerc. With these big clients we organise collection using 33 m³ skips which we collect as soon as they are full." For clients producing a smaller volume OURRY collect with a covered trailer. Each month 500 tonnes of tyres, all categories, are produced just from the Parisian Region and are taken to the 10 000 m² Champdeuil centre which operates with only six staff. Sorting is done for dispatch as serviceable secondhand casings exported to Africa, South America, and the West Indies mainly, or for recycling. The Teletruk is the only forklift on the premises. 20% of the tyres that arrive at Champdeuil are still in good condition and can be sold as secondhand. These are sorted by size into made-to-measure metal cages. There is a 1000 m² hall dedicated to sorting. As the operation developed OURRY changed their original 3 tonnes capacity machine for one with 3.5 tonnes capacity to deal with the heavier loads like Génie Civil tyres.

Teletruk is used continually purely because attachments are changed quickly and easily. vacuum cleaner robot japanThese include bale clamp, shovel, forks, and tyre-pole spike.hoover upright vacuum cleaner accessories Tyres destined for recycling are pushed into a pile by the bale clamp. vacuum cleaner parts las vegas nvEither the shovel or the bale clamp is then used to load semi-trailers which deliver to specialist recyclers to be used as compounds in road asphalt, floor coverings for play areas, wall soundproofing and maybe even anti-landslide barriers on mountains. With the forks the Teletruk handles the metal cages where the re-usable tyres are sorted by size. For the larger diameter casings such as BTP, Agricultural and Génie Civil tyres, OURRY use the tyre-pole spike.

M Husson : "The easy change of attachments gives us versatility and therefore a very highly worked machine which proves very profitable to us. Besides this profitability, we appreciate the sturdiness of the Teletruk, also its ergonomics, the comfort, and the visibility due to the absence of a mast." Solving space issues in metals processing Maxilead Metals of Tyldesley, Manchester, UK, began as a car breakers yard in 1985 but the old days of salvaging parts from wrecks are long gone due to the huge growth in demand for metals, chiefly from China, and the increasing availability of scrapped vehicles arriving daily. Today Maxilead is one of the UK's biggest metals processors, and is believed to have the largest undercover facilities for separation of copper, brass and other non-ferrous. This rig handles the company's ELV - End of Life Vehicle – work, where all fluids, wheels and the battery are removed prior to crushing. The 3.5 tonnes capacity Teletruk is using its fork carriage back-tilt to offer the vehicle to the platform.

Chairman and Managing Director Peter Clay: " Our growth is right off the scale. We're growing so fast that space is an issue. So the Teletruk is the best forklift for our site because that boom saves us space. It lets us work from only one side of curtainsiders and we save time." As far as is possible Maxilead prefers to work inside the warehouses to minimise noise pollution to the surrounding residential areas and has even constructed substantial concrete barriers over 4 m high to suppress the noise of yard work. Munster Germany - Teletruk is perfect machine for the job " I've been doing this job for 28 years and I've never had a better machine for this type of work. - Teletruk operator Hans Knuefer, Druckhaus Aschendorff publishing plant, Munster This 3.5 tonnes capacity Teletruk is fitted with a rotator to tip waste bins into containers in the recycling compound. Some 50 – 60 bins of waste must be removed from the production plant each shift. It is also used for delivering machine parts weighing up to 3 tonnes to whatever location is required by the maintenance team.

The plant produces over 250,000 newspapers every day. The fastest forklift in South Africa This Teletruk 35D 4 x 4 is stockpiling plastic sheathed wire cable offcuts prior to separation and bagging of the copper core at Sindawonye Granulators and Processors, Germiston, South Africa. There are fewer moving parts on the boom of a Teletruk compared to the mast channels, rollers and chains of a conventional forklift. The transmission system is fully enclosed hydrostatic drive. This means the machine resists contamination and the abrasive action of many recyclable products. Sindawonye have a very busy and congested yard and they value their Teletruk highly because it loads curtainsiders and containers faster than any conventional method tried previously. Six hours loading time per container saved by one Teletruk Two Teletruks have revolutionised the recycling operation at a Gauteng metals recycling plant in South Africa. They load one container each day (240 per year).

It used to take eight hours per container but since Teletruks arrived the job is done in two. This is a huge saving just in terms of operator time, cost and fuel. An associated benefit is the opportunity for increased throughput of containers per year. The most notable benefit is this reduction in time and the company is delighted. Only one Teletruk with a clamp loads the containers. Previously the task was done by a mixture of conventional mast FLTs and manual labour struggling with timbers and bars to place cubes in the left and right top corners, the most difficult places to reach. The other Teletruk 35D with a grapple is assigned to an arduous job picking a variety of steel sheets and offcuts and feeding a Sierra baler-logger machine. The baler is equipped with its own hydraulic overhead grapple but when this fails the Teletruk immediately takes over to keep production going. A Teletruk has the ability to 'sweep' metal debris from the floor into a suitable pile for the grab, and also to fetch and carry from stockpiles out of reach of the baler-logger's overhead grapple.

Both TLTs are diverted to yard housekeeping duties during off-peak periods, and this in itself is regarded as a significant benefit because the whole site is now tidy with regulated positions for different activities. Both TLT's work together at feeding and removing product from the baler-logger. Handling WEEE materials at Wincanton Wincanton Environmental Solutions, UK award winners for their hi-tech approach to implementing the European WEEE ( Waste Electronic and Electrical Equipment Directive ) , use a 3.5 tonnes capacity Teletruk at their West Midlands Sortation Centre. For safe handling of the many varied shapes and sizes of WEEE material such as desktop computer terminals, vacuum cleaners, microwave ovens and music centres a special grab attachment is used. This is a shovel fitted with a top-opening hydraulic jaw and a leading-edge plate welded to four hydraulic fork tines. This picks up at the pile, any loose trailing cables are cut free, and the load is tipped into 4.52m high sided bulker trailers which deliver to the state-of-the art Wincanton treatment centre in Billingham, Cleveland.