Case Studies

Community Waste was receiving glass in their kerbside collections of co-mingled recyclables and needed a solution to remove the glass before it was processed through the system. At this time, Nicholls were developing a glass removal and cleaning system for this purpose that can be added ...

Nicholls have provided waste management solutions for TGM Environmental for many years. The increase in security shredding requirements led to a standalone system being setup in a new building a less than miles from their main depot. The system was designed specifically to TGM’s ...

The Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) designed and installed by Nicholls to process dry commingled is another fine example of a cost effective, efficient system tailored to suit the needs of the customer. Waste is tipped into a Jovisa bag splitter feeder and transferred by a variable ...

Pets at Home appointed recycling waste management specialist Greenstar UK to implement a recycling improvement programme to cut waste and costs. One of the main contributing factors was the tonnes of animal bedding that was being collected from the stores throughout the UK on a weekly ...

Nicholls Engineering has installed a comprehensive Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) at the Hockwold site utilising the tried and tested Jovisa range of equipment, to handle a throughput of 40,000 tonnes per year. Refuse from kerbside collections are tipped onto a conveyor belt using a ...

Expansion at Oakley Waste Management included a purpose building to house a new high performance Jovisa JS-1900V/110 baler specified to requirements by Nicholls engineering department. The baler can handle all types of products, including cardboard, paper and tin cans. The throughput ...

When Casepak decided to acquire a high through-put security shredder they contacted Nicholls for based on their knowledge and experience in this area. Nicholls are the UK Agents for the Jovisa (Spanish) range of machinery and organised a visit to Spain where similar installations could ...

Bolton Brothers in Ipswich are an independent waste paper recycling company. Nicholls were given the opportunity to provide a solution to their increasing production needs. After full consideration, Nicholls offered Bolton Brothers a Jovisa Js-2000v/200 fully automatic baler capable ...

The Print Factory needed to expand their Round Spinney premises to accommodate a Heidleburg web press and off line facility. They took the opportunity to install a new waste paper trim Extraction plant placing the order with Nicholls. A twin compactor system, complete with a dust ...

Nicholls have been designing and installing systems for Streamline press since 1997. An enquiry for a paper trim extraction system to collect the waste paper produced in their Bindery department. A full system designed by Nicholls incorporating a cutter fan, air/product separator, ...

De La Rue produces all types of currency for many countries all over the world. The need was to change from manually transporting tons of shredded products to a fully automatic method, with no labour involvement. Nicholls designed this system to provide the pneumatic conveying of the ...

Nicholls Group have designed and installed several waste paper pneumatic conveying systems, for the Leicester based toilet roll and kitchen paper towel manufacturer LPC Plc. The process produces nubbins which are the rough ends of the rolls; these are about 50mm long by 125mm diameter. ...

After purchasing a Perfect Binder and moving into larger premises, Key Print Finishers required a solution to extract their paper trim and control the dust produced by the process. In addition to the Binder there is a Guillotine and two hole punching machines. Nicholls was asked by ...

Nicholls Group has worked with Beacon Packaging for many years. The first installation was at their Alton factory. A pneumatic conveying system was put in to handle the large volumes of waste card produced on a Baysek die cutter. Following on from this a larger system was installed to ...

Duralay is a leading manufacturer of carpet underlay. They invested in a system designed and manufactured by Nicholls to produce 3 tons per hour of 2 mm rubber crumb. Car tyres are fed into pre-shredders and then conveyor belts transfer the chunks of tyres through a metal detector ...

Remondis UK have a granulator which is handling up to 3 tons per hour of product. Large sheets of coated paper are fed into the granulator. There is a high efficiency fan located on the clean side of a cartridge filter which sucks the granulated product and passes it through a Nicholls ...

Tyre recycling involves the shredding and granulating of old tyres. During this process and the screening of the rubber crumb from the flock, large amounts of dust are generated. We have installed comprehensive Dust Extraction systems, to enable the equipment to run at its optimum speed ...

Nicholls designed and installed a fully automatic waste paper trim extraction system to process material from ten Pitney Bowes machines connected through overhead ductwork. A powerful fan generates suction which then extracts the paper and discharges it into a compactor. The material ...

Alibones Recycling relocated from their Moulton Park site to a brand new purpose built site in Earls Barton. Nicholls successfully designed the fully automatic waste paper trim extraction system to a stringent specification in order to meet the customers’ needs. The system ...