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Versatile Topsoil Screen

Our new REMU ST Combi is a non-clogging screening plant, first developed to screen mainly topsoil and compost. Thanks to its durable structure, it is now used increasingly in waste, compost, clay, and other sticky materials.

The structure of the Combi is very compact but it still boasts a screening capacity of 300 m³/h. The non-clogging screening element is built to last, even when working with hard and abrasive materials.

The blades are made from steel, not rubber, enabling screening in all weather conditions. Customers can also specify the blade spacing required to achieve the desired particle size. Minimum blade spacing is 20 mm, producing grain sizes of 0-15 mm. The largest grain size that can be produced is 0-100 mm.

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Competitive Composting

To the man in the street, compost is that heap of grass cuttings and fallen leaves that makes the end of his garden smell bad. But to those in the know, it is one of the fastest-growing and most exciting green business sectors in the world at the moment.

Long used in subsistence farming and home gardening for creating garden-ready soil, composting is becoming increasingly important and better understood as a tool for reducing municipal solid waste, and reducing the amount of green waste going into landfills.

The decomposition of organic material sent to landfills is a principal cause of methane, an important greenhouse gas, making reduction of organic waste being landfilled a key element in the fight against climate change.

Here at Dig A Screener, we are members of the Association for Organics Recycling and are offer a full range of screening buckets and stand-alone plants that are ideally suited to composting applications. In fact, click here to check out this new video of the Remu Combi Station to see what we mean.

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Remu Combi-Station

When we first took on the Remu range, it’s fair to say that we were primarily interested in their excellent line-up of screening bucket attachments, which we initially sold as our S Series but which are now sold under the Remu name.

However, with the arrival of the new Remu range brochure, we have been amazed as the interest our customers are showing in the Remu combi-station, a dedicated and compact screening plant that is ideally suited to a wide variety of applications including topsoil and composting.

Check out the video of this unit in action below.

You can check out the specs of this exciting new product by downloading the product brochure (click here).

And let us know what you think in the Leave a Reply area, below.

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REMU Line Brochure

As many of you will be aware, we have been selling and offering for hire the Remu range of screening bucket attachments under the Dig A Screener name for quite some time now.

However, given the growth in Remu’s global reputation, we have now agreed that these products - formerly our S Series - will now be sold under the Remu name.

To help you choose the most appropriate product for your on-site screening needs, Remu have very kindly provided us with a copy of their latest product line brochure, which you can download here:

Remu Range Brochure

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Cleaning C&D Waste

If you’re in the business of generating or processing construction and demolition waste, you’ll know that it rarely arrives clean and free of contamination of one sort or another.

Which is where our broad (and growing) range of Dig A Screener screening bucket attachments come into their own. As this new video shows perfectly, these buckets are able to remove soil and other fines, leaving you with a potentially valuable product that can be used as fill or crushed as a 6F2 product.

We’d love to hear what you think about this video so please Leave a Reply below.

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Join our Tweet-Up

Here at Dig A Crusher, we pride ourselves on being at the cutting edge of communications technology. Indeed, we were one of the first capital equipment manufacturers to embrace the growing phenomenon that is the social networking site, Twitter.

But, despite the many benefits of Twitter, we remain firm believers in real, meaningful face-to-face meetings. Which is why we have volunteered to host a first-ever industry “tweet-up” at the forthcoming RWM 2009 exhibition in September.

“There is a growing community of waste management and recycling industry professionals on Twitter and we became aware that a number of them were planning to use the RWM exhibition as a meeting point,” says Dig A Crusher managing director Sean Heron. “As we were already going to be there and had a stand, I just thought we would offer them the opportunity to meet at our stand.”

Heron reports that specific timings are yet to be confirmed but the Tweet-Up is scheduled to take place on Stand 126 at the Birmingham NEC on 16 September 2009. “Further details of specific timings and who will be attending will be posted here as soon as they become available,” Heron concludes. “We’ll also be posting details on Twitter so please be sure to follow us at www.twitter.com/digacrusher.”

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Coming Clean

So you have a dedicated track-mounted mobile crusher on site that is producing hundreds, maybe even thousands of tonnes of potentially valuable material that is mixed with soil, clay or some other contaminant that renders that material all but unusable. What do you so?

Well, in years gone by, the simple answer was to stockpile the material in the possibly vain hope that you might get around to washing it at some point.

However, as this contractor demonstrates with some innovative use of one of our screening buckets, there is now a potentially lucrative alternative:

Although this is not a unique application, we were very impressed by this company’s forward-thinking approach. But here’s a question: What is the most unusual application oyu have seenone of our products used in?

Please use the Leave a Reply box below to let us know.

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RWM 2009 - Come and See us

The RWM 2009 exhibition is now less than two months away and already the show looks set to be the biggest yet.

The Recycling & Waste Management show organisers have already confirmed some high profile guest speakers including Mandy Keepax, Head of Facilities Management, Marks & Spencer; Peter Jones, Independent Waste Advisor; Stephen Wielebski, Divisional Development Director, Miller Homes and many more. In addition, RWM has many new features for 2009 including an Energy and Water Theatre, Korean Business Pavilion, Business Quad Zone and much more.

And, of course, we will be there on Stand 126. So please, come along and see us and check out the latest additions to our product line. We look forward to seeing you there.

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Dig A Screener video

Come rain, shine or even snow, our Dig A Screener screening buckets will keep on producing, as this new video shows.

It’s worth sticking with the video until about 1:40 minutes in as that clearly shows the inner workings of the screening bucket, and just why it is such a productive and efficient tool.

When you’ve watched the video, let us know what you think using the Leave A Reply facility below.

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Waste Framework consultation

The Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has issued a new consultation on the revised waste Framework Directive (Directive 2008/98/EC) for England and Wales.

Further details can be found by clicking here while a copy of the consultation document in pdf format can be downloaded by hitting the link (below).

Consultation Document

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