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Waste Processing Conveyor

How Hoverdale saved a waste management company £32,000 per annum following a successful trial of conveyor rollers

The Situation

The waste processing industry handles a wide range of materials and substances. Fine particles and slurries will cling to moving rollers and build up until combined with larger debris they will jam the rollers in the transom or even build up behind the roller to cause the roller to be forced out of the transom.

When a roller jams it stops rotating but the belt carries on until the roller shell has worn through leaving sharp edges. This in turn will damage the belt surface.

The Client’s Objectives

The company were ‘living’ with the problems because they were unaware that there was a better way. Once they realised that their problem could be solved, it was easy to come up with a set of objectives. These were:

To eliminate maintenance costs

To eliminate belt damage

To work with a company that provided engineered solutions to ensure the correct solution for their problem

Our Solution

Based on our success with the Eurotunnel project we were able to recommend our limberoller system as the complete answer to the problems. We installed 4 limberollers on a trial basis and after 3 months converted a complete conveyor.

Now after 14 months of trouble free service our customer is delighted with the results and intends to convert all conveyors over to our limberoller system.

 

Their Measures for Success

The company’s main criteria for success were:

Maintenance costs to be reduced to zero

Belt damage to be reduced to zero

Our Work

We installed our limberollers which solved the client’s issues with roller failure.

The Timing

Because the problems with roller failure were ongoing we were able to install our trial limberollers within 2 weeks and after 3 months convert one conveyor.

 

Value to the Customer

The customer was able to appreciate the benefits of the limberollers in 2 ways:

Elimination of need to purchase and replace rollers at frequent intervals

Elimination of the need for maintenance

A £32,000 saving per annum (savings of £4,000 per conveyor per year – the company had 8 conveyors)

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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.