Where do you think all-recyclable commercial, industrial and recyclable waste goes? It goes to recycling facilities and waste management centres where it is sorted through and sent for processing. Suppose you are running a business in the waste recycling industry and receive hundreds of tonnes of recyclable waste each day. Managing this volume of waste is a challenge, and an even bigger challenge is ensuring cleanliness on site. This is why all major players in the industry rely on automated sweepers and scrubbers such as the ASC M6 Large Rider Sweeper.
The M6 Sweeper is a hydraulically-controlled heavy-duty sweeper that can sweep clogged areas as well as large open spaces. Equipped with a highly effective dust filter shaker, this recycling sweeper ensures extreme deep cleaning. It is best suited for sweeping narrow areas that are not reachable by larger machines and for picking up debris. With high endurance and top-notch performance, this high dump steel recycling sweeper has a volume capacity of whooping 200 litres! Our clients in the waste and recycling industry, such as Sima Metal Management, Skip Hire, IMPACT Community Services, and Economy Waste, have used and loved ASC’s waste transfer sweepers to clean up scrap metal and debris and pick up dust from every nook and corner.
In this section, you will find a lot of waste recycling case study material that details our clients’ experiences and can help you reach the wise decision of employing ASC’s services at your waste recycling facility.
Posted on Thursday, September 19, 2024
Remondis Australia Northgate QLD
The Client REMONDIS Northgate Resource Recovery Facility (RRF) is located at Northgate, 14 kms north of Brisbane’s CBD. They have a waste water treatment facility on site, plus a large depot that caters for their logistics and industrial services vehicles. Today, REMONDIS Australia has grown and diversified to become one of the largest waste and recycling companies in the country. The Challenge Remondis Northgate had been using an ASC model M6 diesel sweeper, successfully, for the past 10 years. They undertook a project to upgrade the smaller ASC M6 with a larger capacity sweeper (street sweeper) to maximise labour productivity.
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Posted on Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Sims Metal Pinkenba Qld
The Client Sims Pinkenba QLD is Australia’s Market leader when it comes to scrap metal. Their processing capacity, which includes five fragmentizers, shears, balers and granulating plants, operates to the highest environmental and quality standards to produce products that are recognised and sought after throughout the world. The Challenge The Sims Pinkenba site is a very busy and large capacity site. They required a heavy duty sweeper that was designed to pick up scrap metal and dust off their roadways and truck loading areas. Their new Pinkenba site is based at the Port of QLD, so the company had to
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Posted on Tuesday, September 17, 2024
Sims Metal Northgate QLD
The Client Sims Metal Australia is a scrap metal processor. Sims Metal has grown to be the leading collector, processor and supplier of recycled metal in Australia. The Challenge Sims Metal Northgate Qld is a very large operation that collects and processes Brisbane’s scrap metal. The site is a multi-acre site that requires daily sweeping. The site required a sweeper that was designed to work in the steel environment. The machine was being purchased to replace a road sweeper as well as a warehouse sweeper, that Sims had purchased a few years ago. Sims sought the expertise of ASC’s Scott
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Posted on Sunday, September 8, 2024
JJ Richards Waste and Recycling SA
The Client JJ’s Waste & Recycling Wingfield (SA) depot is situated approximately 15km north of the Adelaide CBD. Their depot services include processing of general waste, industrial bin disposal, liquid waste services, waste oil collection and recycling waste removal. The Challenge JJ Richards Wingfield depot is a large waste open centre that houses and services garbage vehicles and other general waste equipment. The centre required a reliable industrial sweeper with a large loading capacity, to sweep clean their depot free of dirt, metal offcuts, rubber dust and other waste pollutants. JJ’s priority was to invest in a solid and reliable
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Posted on Monday, July 15, 2024
Calleja Group
The Client From humble beginnings as a one-truck waste transport business in 1950, the family-run Calleja Group has today evolved as a big group in Melbourne’s waste and transport sector. The company operates two transfer stations in Melbourne, one of them located at Newlands Road, Coburg North. The Challenge The Calleja Groups Coburg Transfer waste based in Coburg, is a large facility that separates industrial waste into timber, concrete, bricks, cardboard, metals and green waste using manual and magnetic separation. The company had a need to run an effective waster transfer compliant sweeper that did not blow dust and was
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Posted on Friday, April 26, 2024
Southern Material Recovery Facility
The Client Southern Material Recovery Facility (SRWRA) is based in Seaford Heights, South Australia. The Southern Recycling Centre (SRC) plays a key role in the diversion of waste from landfill. Municipal solid waste from the kerbside rubbish bin is processed, to extract organic material from the waste stream which is then pasteurised, screened and used as part of landfill capping. This ensures maximum diversion of organic material from landfill. The Challenge Plant Manager, Michel Semaan, asked ASC’s Adelaide based Representative Like Skrinjaric for a solution to clean their facility. The company faced a serious challenge with their outdoor areas and
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Posted on Monday, March 18, 2024
Remondis Waste Transfer Station
The Client REMONDIS Australia has grown and diversified to become one of the largest waste and recycling companies in the country. Their Remondis Seven Hills operation is a waste disposal and reduction service, located in Powers Road, Seven Hills. The company collects and sorts all kinds of rubbish from the western suburbs. The Challenge Having used an ASC D200 for the past 16 years, Remondis had a need to replace its sweeper. The choice was whether to purchase a dedicated street sweeper, or a dedicated refuse sweeper. Having already purchased an ASC M8 in their Brisbase waste facility many years
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Posted on Saturday, February 10, 2024
Renex
The Client RENEX is Australia’s first permanently located contaminated soil treatment and resource recovery facility. It was specifically established to accept and treat contaminated soils and other industrial waste, that would otherwise have been destined for landfill disposal. The Challenge Renex operates out of a very large facility, in Melbourne’s outer suburb of Dandenong. The company receives deliveries of all kinds of soil that needs to be processed. The site is very dusty and has large mobile trucks and earthmoving machines moving soil to and from the site, resulting in spills that need to be swept up. ASC’s Ken Pepyat
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Posted on Saturday, November 25, 2023
Recycal Tasmania
The Client Recycal is based in the Tasmanian suburb of Launceston. The company is a scrap metal recycling facility. It processes scrap metal, lead, stainless, copper, aluminium, brass & used batteries. The Challenge Recycal Tasmania were looking for a sweeper capable of maintaining their scrap yard free of dust and offcuts of metal. They were specifically looking for a sweeper that was proven to work in the metal recycling industry. They were after a heavy-duty sweeper that was capable of sweeping 8-hour shifts and designed to sweep very undulated surfaces. The company contacted ASC’s Luke Skrinjaric who assisted them with
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Posted on Wednesday, November 1, 2023
Visy Glass Recycling Celebrates 5 Years of Service
The Client Visy Glass Operations is a glass recycling and manufacturing facility, comprising integrated recycled glass cullet. The plant is based in Crestmead, Brisbane. The proposed plant process approximately 145,000 tonnes per annum, of recycled material, into furnace-ready cullet. The Challenge and the Result 5 years ago, the company entered into a rental contract with ASC, to supply a fully maintained road sweeper, capable of picking up glass pallet on the multi acre site. The machine was used to keep the plant’s roadways free of glass pallet 24/7. The pallet needed to be swept up to keep truck tyres from
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Posted on Thursday, June 8, 2023
Earthcare Recycling Challenge Oil and Grease
The Client Earthcare recycling is 100% West Australian owned and operated. Since their inception in 2010 they have become WA’s largest separation-at-source recycling business. They provide a cost effective and sustainable service to over 1,250 houses a year, working with some of WA’s largest home builders and developers. The Challenge The company was looking to invest in a small, walk behind floor scrubber, to scrub their workshop clean. Their floors were painted epoxy. They required a machine that would ensure the removal of oil and grease, as well as tyre marks off the floor. The workshop services heavy vehicles, as
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Posted on Tuesday, February 21, 2023
REMONDIS Australia Rocklea QLD ASC M8 Purchase
The Client With over 1,100 employees and 39 business locations in Australia, Remondis has grown and diversified to become one of the largest waste and recycling companies in the country. The Challenge Remondis has been using ASC machines for many years, on multiple sites. Their Rocklea site had an ASC Eureka M6 Diesel sweeper for the past 8 years and were looking to upgrade to a much larger machine. The site required the capacity of a street sweeper, yet the key was to achieve great manoeuvrability, to allow the machine to work while dump trucks and front end loaders were
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Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2023
JJ Waste & Recycling Molendinar QLD
The Client The JJ Richards Molendinar depot is about 4 kilometres from the City of the Gold Coast. They offer industrial bin and wheelie bin services, liquid tanker and skip services. The Challenge JJ have a very large workshop, servicing their fleet of trucks and mobile plant. Oil spills, grease build up and dust, stain any painted workshop floors. JJ have invested in many ASC Scrubbers over the past 18 years and on this occasion, were looking for a new scrubber for their Gold Coast facility. They inquired about the heavy duty ASC Eureka E 81 automatic scrubber. This is
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Posted on Saturday, November 5, 2022
Chicks Scrap Metal MEP
Client introduction Chicks Scrap Metal is based in Bibra Lake, WA. They are in the metal recycling business. Their goal is to recycle as much as they can and get it back into production. The Challenge: Chicks Scrap Manager, Bill, called locally based Manager Ross Sheehan to discuss his cleaning issue. Bill wanted to collect as much dust and debris as possible off their facilities warehouse floor, to reduce trip hazards. They face the Fremantle Doctor winds, which blows dust and dirt from neighbouring sites into his shed. The benefit was also to keep the site cleaner for their customers.
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Posted on Thursday, October 13, 2022
Smart Resources Cost Effective ASC M8 Solution
The Client Smart Recycling and Smart Pallets operate from a 35-acre, family-run recycling depot in Dandenong South. The businesses are owned by Mr Ward Petherbridge. The company runs four businesses, that divert over 50,000 tonnes of waste from landfill, annually. The site transforms 95% of waste received into useful, cost-effective, environmentally friendly products and provides a net carbon benefit of 14,500 tonnes from timber recycling alone. The Challenge The company has an endless array of trucks entering the premises to drop waste off. Debris and dust are a constant battle. More and more of the yards are being concreted. The
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Posted on Wednesday, September 21, 2022
JJ Richards Rockhampton Epoxy Painted Floor Challenge
The client JJ Richards is one of Australia’s leading Waste companies. Established more than 90 years ago, the brand has expanded to the regional area of Rockhampton, North Qld. The Challenge JJ Richards has a large workshop facility in Parkhurst, North QLD. This facility houses and services the company’s fleet of mobile waste vehicles. The facility has a large epoxy painted floor. Being a service facility that repairs trucks, their floors get coated with grease, oil, dust and debris after servicing. JJ Richards has a strict policy of keeping all their facilities clean. The company required a floor scrubber. The
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Posted on Friday, August 26, 2022
Remondis Celebrates 7 years With ASC
The Client Remondis is regarded as one of Australia’s leading waste collection companies. The company runs a series of water transfer companies around Australia. The Challenge Cleaning a waste transfer station is quite challenging. With millions of tonnes of waste that passes through these centres, there is a need to sweep clean the roadways and unloading areas. These must be swept, in order to prevent tyre punctures for incoming traffic and eliminate debris flying around the facility. With garbage trucks and private cars dumping a vast array of debris into the oversized dump pits, the company must ensure a dust
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Posted on Wednesday, August 10, 2022
JJ Richards Glendenning Cleans Up
The Client JJ Richards & Sons was established in 1932 and is the largest privately owned waste management company in Australia. The Challenge JJ Richards is a household name in the water collection business. Running a fleet of trucks also means the company has an array of service depots around the country, to support and maintain their refuse vehicle. The workshops each have a number of service bays, to service each truck. These bays get dirty from oil and grease dropping off the vehicles and onto the shop floor. These workshop floors require daily floor scrubbing to keep their areas
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Posted on Sunday, July 31, 2022
Computer Recycling Scheme Covers Its Site Sweeping Requirements
The Client Computer Recycling Scheme (Department for Education) is a SA Government Organisation, and their core activity is recycling and refurbishing used IT equipment. They are based in Burton, SA. The Challenge The company works with precise electronic equipment and need their work and storage facilities to be kept clean and most importantly , dust-free at all times. ASC’s South Australia Representative, Luke Skrinjaric, approached CRS’ Manager Mr. David Staunton, with an offer to demonstrate the ASC Eureka MEP, dust-control pedestrian sweeper. The Result Following an onsite demonstration, the company purchased an ASC MEP (optioned with vacuum/dust-filter) as an adequate
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Posted on Saturday, June 11, 2022
SIMS Metal Takes On An ASC Heavy Duty M6
The Client Sims Limited is a world leading publicly listed metal recycler. Their operations encompass the buying, processing, and selling of ferrous and non-ferrous recycled metals. This branch is based in Nerang, Gold Coast- QLD. The Challenge Sims Metal Nerang needed to replace the old problematic sweeper, that they had been using at their site. Working in a scrap metal facility is quite challenging, as the materials size can vary from a 2 mm piece of tin to an oversized piece of steel. They chose an ASC Heavy Duty Mach 6 for this site as a replacement for their existing
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Posted on Friday, April 15, 2022
The Haggarty Group Welcome ASC M6 LPG
The Client The HAGGARTY GROUP Qld is located in West Ipswich. The Haggarty Group Qld has been recycling ferrous and non-ferrous metals since 1949. Their activities include the collecting, buying, processing and the selling of all scrap metals into various markets. The Challenge Haggarty needed a heavy-duty machine that was able to clean & maintain their busy recycling yard. The area that required sweeping included rough concrete surfaces. The sweepers’ role was to clean sweep their carpark areas as well as their large indoor and outdoor recycling plant. The Solution. In order to keep their operating cost to a minimum,
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Posted on Monday, March 21, 2022
Sims Metal Management ASC M6 Welshpool WA
The Client Sims Limited is a world leading publicly listed metal recycler. Their operations encompass the buying, processing and selling of ferrous and non-ferrous recycled metals. The Challenge Having had an old and problematic sweeper at their Perth Site the group required a replacement machine to maintain the companies’ environmental responsibilities. Sims Metal has had a long-lasting & fruitful relationship with ASC on the Eastern seaboard for the past 15 years and were looking for a quality solution to eliminate their sweeping challenges. They consulted many of their sites in NSW and decided on the ASC M6 Heavy Duty Smelter
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Posted on Monday, November 15, 2021
JJ Richards Cairns Expands With ASC
Client Introduction JJ Richards is regarded as one of the best waste and transfer organisations in Australia. The Challenge Recently JJ Richards expanded into a new facility in Cairns (Qld). Alan Jenkins (Cairns Manager) asked locally based ASC Townsville representative, Luke Skrinjaric, to organise a new floor scrubber for his workshop. Alan had been using the ASC product for many years and knew what he wanted. The new facility had a state of the art floor that need to be dust free and clean, in order for the plasma cutting machines to operate properly. The result A new ASC E
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Posted on Monday, November 15, 2021
ASC Delivering to Sims Metal
Sims Metal Takes On More ASC Steel Grade Sweepers Sims Metal is one of the world’s largest scrap metal recycling companies. With sites all over Australia they have used ASC Sweepers successfully for almost 18 years. The Sims Metal sites are amongst the harshest applications for sweeping in Australia. Scrap Metal, tyre dust, rocks, rubber and glass are difficult items to sweep. With multiple operators using the machines & a constant flow of trucks and mobile plant working onsite 24/7, the ASC sweepers have become an integral & reliable part of the Sims Group OH&S and EPA safeguards. Seen pictured
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Posted on Saturday, November 13, 2021
Sims Metal Alexandria upgrades to 2021 ASC M6
The Client Sims Metal is a business division of Sims Limited. A world leading publicly listed metal recycler, their operations encompass the buying, processing and selling of ferrous and non-ferrous recycled metals. The Challenge After using the ASC M6 Diesel for almost 12 years, the Group decided to replace their old ASC M6 Diesel sweeper with a new one. Working in a scrap metal facility is quite challenging as the materials size can vary from a 2 mm piece of tin to an oversized piece of steel. ASC’s Scott Campbell worked with the group to assess their site sweeping needs
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Posted on Thursday, October 28, 2021
Sims Metal Wagga Wagga Renews and Replaces Their 15 Year Old Sweeper
Client Introduction Sims Metal Operations buy and process end-of-life metal, electronics, and municipal materials, which are then sold as raw materials to steel mills and secondary smelters. The Challenge The Sims Wagga plant is located 7 hours south of Sydney. The Wagga plant is quite large, and like any scrap metal yard, it gets quite dusty. Hence it requires sweeping on a daily basis. ASC’s Scott Campbell was asked recently, to visit the plant and recommend a replacement for their 15 year old ASC sweeper. He recommended the Steel Grade ASC M6 heavy duty, industrial sweeper as the solution. The
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Posted on Friday, October 22, 2021
Ground Science Geelong Cleans Up Their Laboratory Floors
Client Introduction Ground Science is a geotechnical engineering company (soil testing service). They are among the industry leaders that offer a broad range of engineering and laboratory services to key industry sectors. The Challenge Ground Science were already using the ASC MEP sweeper in their Thomas town facility for quite some time. They wanted to buy another ASC Sweeper after being very happy and satisfied with their first one. Hence they wanted a new one for their Geelong facility as well. They needed the machine to sweep the dirt and dust off their laboratory floors. The Result ASC’s Ken Pepyat
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Posted on Thursday, September 9, 2021
JJ Richards Emerald QLD Invests In An ASC Eureka E 81
Client Introduction JJ Richards operates waste management facilities across Australia. It is among the leading waste companies in Australia. The Challenge The company was looking to invest in a new scrubber for their expanded operation in Emerald, North Queensland. They asked ASC to recommend a machine that could clean a greasy floor cost-effectively while delivering low running costs. JJ Richards has many ASC Scrubbers in their fleet, so they knew that they could rely on ASC once again. They were satisfied with the performance of ASC scrubbers that work amazingly even in the toughest environments of Australia. The Solution JJ
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Posted on Friday, July 2, 2021
Remondis’ Waste Qld celebrates 4 years with ASC
Client Introduction REMONDIS is one of the world’s largest recycling service providers. They also have many water companies. With over 30,000 employees and around 900 business locations on 4 continents, the group serves more than 30 million people through thousands of companies. The Challenge Remondis surveyed the market around four years ago, looking for the best cleaning equipment brand. They needed an efficient cleaning solution for two of their largest waste transfer stations in Brisbane. They tested many machines available in the market and found the Heavy Duty ASC Eureka M6 to be the best fit for their facilities. They
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Posted on Thursday, March 18, 2021
ACT Skip Hire Solves Their Volume of Dust, Dirt & Debris
Client Introduction ACT Skip Hire is Canberra’s longest-running skip bin business. They have invested heavily in the industry to establish a Resource Recovery Facility at the Resource Recovery Estate in Hume, ACT. They are the pioneers of the industry in ACT’s waste recovery. The Challenge The biggest challenge Tony (owner of ACT) was facing at his station was the sheer volume of dust, dirt, and debris generated in recycling waste. Each truck and machinery movement spread dust while moving waste skips around. The workers had to wear masks all the time and yet complained of the amount of dust in
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Posted on Monday, March 1, 2021
Sims Metal adds new ASC Eureka M8 to its fleet
Client Introduction Sims Metal Management has grown to be the largest scrap metal and electronics recycler in the world, with over 6000 employees in 230 locations across the globe. The work done at Sims Metal Management comprises a large network of processing facilities to source recyclable ferrous and non-ferrous metals. The Problem Sims Metal Newcastle (NSW) has a large scrap yard that has trucks entering and dropping off scrap metal at all hours of the day. The site is extremely busy and very dusty due to a lot of traffic movement. Scrap metal offcuts are constantly dropped on the ground
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Posted on Sunday, February 7, 2021
Sims Metal celebrates 9 years service with ASC M6
Client Introduction Sims Metal Management Ltd is the leading metals and electronics recycling company in the world. The company specialises in recycling ferrous metals, non-ferrous metals, post-consumer electronic goods, and municipal waste. The Problem Sweeping a metal recycling yard is as difficult and challenging as it gets as a lot of scrap metal is dropped on the ground while metal is being recycled. This crap has to be swept on an hourly basis in order for the mobile plant to operate and reduce the probability of punctured tyres. These metals vary in length and weight. Moreover, the dust build-up issue
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Posted on Monday, October 19, 2020
Impact Community Services QLD. & ASC M6 Sweeper
Bundaberg’s Community Impact Services recently took invested in an ASC Eureka M6 Heavy Duty sweeper. The sweeper has been bought by the Material Recovery Facility, which is owned by Bundaberg Regional Council but managed by IMPACT Community Services. The Problem Cleaning and maintaining a waste transfer station is a difficult job. There are plastic bottles, resin, metal shavings, dust, and general debris scattered all over the sorting areas that need to be swept to keep the facility clean. The Solution IMPACT recently contacted ASC’s Rafael Rodrigues for an efficient solution for eliminating their cleaning issues as well as the labor-intensive
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Posted on Monday, October 12, 2020
Economy Waste Eliminates Dust & Debris with the ASC Eureka M6
Client Introduction. Economy Waste is a full-service waste management company based on the NSW Central Coast town of Gosford. They provide skip bins hire and rubbish removal services for the Central Coast NSW region and have been established well over 25 years. The Problem Economy Waste recently contacted ASC’s Scott Campbell to discuss ways that they could improve their cleaning regime. Economy Waste Gosford had a problem that faces all waste management companies, maintain dust and debris levels. Running a waste centre is a tough business with nonstop cars and trucks entering site. The material that is transported into the
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