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With a company history stretching back to 1969, Hoverdale have gained experience with some of the biggest companies in the UK & worldwide in mining, quarrying, steel manufacture & recycling. We are currently proud to be approved suppliers to a number of industry leaders.

Approved Suppliers

Hoverdale are approved suppliers for Biffa & have an on-going development programme with the company to provide long-life components in hard metals for for their processing plants.

Approved Suppliers

Hoverdale are approved suppliers for Tarmac & provide them with engineered solutions for operating problems across their network of quarries.

Hoverdale were able to save Lafarge Tarmac £2,000 per conveyor per year by replacing a competitor’s system with our own. British engineering wins out!

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Hoverdale are approved suppliers for Veolia and have solved one major problem for the company which, according to Veolia, will save them £500,000 per annum at one plant.

We are now looking at 3 new problems and will normally engineer a cost-effective solution within 3 weeks.

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Hoverdale are approved suppliers for the Hanson Group. Our D-type scraper is proving to be a great success operating on granite.

We are currently working with a local site to carry out an upgrade across the plant. We were able to win this over a number of significant competitors based upon our detailed survey & cost-saving recommendations.

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Hoverdale are approved suppliers for the Aggregate Industries group and have supplied the company for many years.

We are currently working on spillage problems with the company with excellent results. By fitting our K skirt & upgrading drum seals, we have all but eliminated spillage. Clearing up is now once a month instead of three times a week.

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Hoverdale are approved suppliers for Ibstock. We have solved two problems for Ibstock which will be implemented throughout the group with significant savings.

As a result of the success we have had with Ibstock, we have now been asked to engineer solutions to a new range of problems.

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Hoverdale are approved suppliers for Cemex.

We have carried out surveys for Cemex and made recommendations which they have accepted. We have implemented our recommendations on a no-cure, no-pay basis which is particularly attractive to the client.

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We have supplied the company that is now TATA Steel since 1982 and have made a significant contribution to lowering costs, reducing downtime and lost production.

Our biggest claim to fame was to play a significant role in reducing the Llanwern Sinter Plant maintenance crew from 85 to 5 over a 3-year period.

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Our Food grade Limber-rollers have been used by Kellogg’s for the last 20 years with excellent results. Long-Life, Maintenance Free, Easy and quick to change.

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MATT BEVERLEY

A time served Mechanical engineer Matt’s background includes many high-profile projects within the Automotive Industry: The Rolls Royce Phantom, Rolls Royce Cullinan, Spyker Le-Mans racing teams, Bentley, Aston Martin, and Airbus A380. This history and knowledge of complex manufacturing and engineering projects have been transferred and further developed into the bulk material handling sector. Matt has work in Europe, North America, Indonesia, and China

He joined the bulk solids and bulk handling industry in 2019 as Managing Director of Hoverdale UK Ltd and subsequently completed a Management buyout in July 2020. The business has grown yearly, increased employment, its customer base, and worldwide reputation, and disrupted the market with groundbreaking innovative technology. Since Matt took over Hoverdale, the company has filed four patents for innovation; one was granted in 2023 for a design to improve bulk handling. The success had been driven by delivering tailored solutions to the waste recycling sectors that keep material flowing out and money flowing in.

Awards Include

  • 2024 – Shapa company of the Year
  • 2024- Shapa Innovation in Technology
  • 2024- MHEA Engineer of the year
  • 2021 – MHEA Innovation of the year
  • 2021- IMechE Innovation award

Current Positions Include.

  • Group Chairman Hoverdale UK Ltd
  • President (MHEA) Material Handling Engineers Association
  • Vice Chairman: IMechE Bulk Material Handling Committee
  • Council Member: (SHAPA) Solids Handling & Particle Association
  • Member: Chartered Management Institute

Matt has been happily married to Julie for 22 years and has 4 children, 3 of which are involved within the Hoverdale group of companies. He is an RFU level 2 qualified coach and referee having been in several head coaching roles at various age groups from under 6’s to adults for his local team Nuneaton RFC. He believes in the core values that rugby teaches of Teamwork, Respect, Enjoyment, Discipline, Sportsmanship and try’s to carry this through in his day to day business activities. He is passionate at brining the next generation of young, diverse engineers into the sector through promotion of apprenticeship scheme and further education routes.

DAVID BARTER

David is an experienced leader, with a background covering Operations, eCommerce, Finance, Compliance, HR and IT. His career spans Banking, Retail and Engineering, spending the majority of his career working for ALDI as they grew to become 4th largest supermarket in the UK, including seven years on their UK board as Managing Director of IT and eCommerce.

David joined Hoverdale’s Senior Management Team in 2023 to seek a fresh challenge in a completely different industry sector. He has applied his approach to Process Improvement, Efficiency, Customer Service and Teamwork to great effect during Hoverdale’s sustained growth.

Married to Jane, with three adult sons between them, David volunteers on the board of the Nottingham Playhouse theatre as well as his local rugby and football clubs. Any spare time he spends enjoying walks with their Golden Retriever, Buzz, who is also regularly seen in the Hoverdale office.

BEN DUCHESNE

Ben is a time serviced field service engineer in the busy waste and recycling sector, who’s career moved into to managing service teams and beyond. Originally beginning his career with a HGV repair and maintenance apprenticeship with IVECO, from there travelling and working in multiple countries moving towards waste processing shredders.

Ben joined the Hoverdale team in September 2024 seeking to apply his extensive knowledge to a new area. His values and ethics fit perfectly within the Hoverdale ethos.

He is happily married to Kristina, with 4 wonderful young children; 14, 11, 8 and 5. We the children he doesn’t get much spare time. He is a family man, who enjoys spending as much time with them as possible.