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Orders Pour In For TJ's New Road-Laying Material
| Published: 9th October 2013 18:29 |
TJ Group's Luke Haskell with the waste management firm's specially-developed recycled aggregate A waste management specialist near Portsmouth has launched a new product for use in the building of our roads and pavements.
TJ Group, employing 120 people and with a fleet of 80 liveried vehicles, has already sold in excess of 100,000 tonnes of the recycled aggregate to customers.
As well as being trademarked, the Department of Transport has approved ReclaMixTM as a type one primary aggregate replacement.
Britain's Waste & Resources Action Programme - WRAP - also approved the product, which is made at TJ's crushing plant at Portfield, Chichester, West Sussex.
Concrete brought in from hauliers across the country is taken to TJ's new £200,000 crushing plant before being processed to meet intensive industry demand for recycled aggregates.
With the site's blending capabilities and processes, Steve Grant, the commercial manager TJ, developed the product for use as a sub-base.
He said: "We've turned an environmental problem into a benefit, an expense into an asset, providing a sustainable solution to customers in a world of ever-increasing disposal costs.
"Utility contractors have a significant waste disposal issue because tarmacadam is commonly not accepted at certain disposal points although it is inert and very recyclable.
"ReclaMixTM is a cost-effective and environmentally-friendly alternative to other sub-base materials and follows months of research and development."
Sub-bases have an important role in roads and pavements, being the main load-bearing layer. The quality is important to the useful life of the road or pavement.
TJ, which covers from Bournemouth in the west to Brighton in the east and Guildford in the north, already has connections with the road-laying industry.
TJ has two core services, TJ Transport and TJ Waste & Recycling.
The first, through TJ Transport, is heavily involved in the construction and aggregates industries.
In a recent development, the company is supplying 15 vehicles to transport aggregates to and from road improvement sites overnight, including on the A3, A34, A31 and up to the M25.
The second is TJ Waste & Recycling, which provides waste and recycling collections and skip hire.
As well as Portfield, TJ operates four sites where skip waste, such as rubble, wood and metal, is separated, as well as recycling collected in rounds from offices, factories, shops, garages, local authorities and residential and nursing homes.
They are at Bar End at Winchester, Airport Industrial Park in Portsmouth, Harts Farm Way at Havant and Yapton, West Sussex.
All five sites are licensed by the Environment Agency.
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