Rathcairn, Co. Meath, Thursday, 4th August 2022 - Turmec, the international provider of innovative waste processing and recycling solutions, is delighted to announce that it has been awarded a €30 million contract to design, build and install a state-of-the-art construction waste processing solution for Rino Recycling at its Pinkenba facility near Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The new project will be one of the largest construction and demolition (C&D) waste recovery sites in Australia, designed to achieve market-leading landfill diversion and recovery rates of up to 99% and with a processing capacity of 475 tonnes per hour.
Recovered C&D materials will be recycled by Rino Recycling into a range of high-quality sand, fill, road bases and aggregate materials which will be supplied back into new construction projects.
The Pinkenba project forms part of a multi-million Australian dollar capital investment programme by Rino Recycling to meet growing demand for materials recovery and recycling in South East Queensland. This comes on the back of Australian government environmental regulations to support increased recovery rates and diversion from landfill, including a new landfill levy in Queensland which is planned to increase annually. Significant growth in construction activities as part of a 25-year development plan for the region is also driving recycling demand for waste construction materials, including major transportation, port and waterfront development and leisure facilities in and around Brisbane. High levels of construction activities are expected to continue in preparation for Olympic Games which will be hosted by Brisbane in 2032.
Working with its Australian sales partners, the Environmental Group Limited (EGL), which promotes Turmec products and services and supports the delivery of its turnkey solutions including aftersales services, this project follows Turmec’s successful delivery of a major waste construction materials processing facility for Bingo Industries at Eastern Creek just outside Sydney in 2021. Turmec is currently progressing waste processing and recycling projects in Ireland, the United Kingdom and Australia.
Turmec will work with its project partners, Northern Ireland group, CDE, which will be providing the materials wet processing elements of the project.
Commenting Rino Recycling General Manager and Project Leader, Daniel Blaser, said: “Rino Recycling is excited to bring a renewed vision and passion for revolutionising the waste industry and developing a world-class resource recovery business in Brisbane.”
“Determined to lead the charge for a circular economy and become a world leader in recovery rates, quality of products recycled, construction materials produced, integration and automation, we identified the need to upscale the operation – and central to successfully scaling the business is investing in best-in-class technology to automate and remove the requirement for manually handling of material.”
“The completion of this integrated hybrid plant will be the first of its type around the world and will pave the way for the future of recycling.”
Commenting, Turmec CEO Geoff Bailey, said: “We are delighted to have the opportunity to support Rino Recycling to deliver on its vision to revolutionise construction and demolition waste handling and processing, and to become the leading producer of recycled construction materials in Queensland. Our goal for the Pinkenba project is to match Rino’s ambition with a world-class, turn-key construction waste recycling facility that not alone provides market-leading landfill diversion rates, but also produces high quality recycled construction materials that will go back into an extraordinary pipeline of construction projects around Brisbane that are already underway, and planned over the next 10 years.”
About Rino Recycling - Rino Recycling was established by Queensland Recycling Technologies (QRT), a joint venture between Alceon Qld and Brisbane Recycling Consortium (BRC). Rino has a significant footprint to service the Brisbane waste materials and resource handling market with two commercial waste recycling transfer stations at Pinkenba – Rino headquarters – and a river sand quarry at Waterford. Firmly focused on the future, Rino's goal is to create a state-of-the-art recycling and resource recovery processing plant on the doorstep of Brisbane's CBD and be number one in its field.
To learn more, go to www.rinorecycling.com.au
About Turmec - Established in 1972, Turmec is a leading international provider of materials handling and recovery solutions to the waste processing sector. It specialises in the end-to-end design and build of complex waste separation and processing systems which are critical for large-scale, efficient waste processing and recycling plants. Turmec serves some of the largest waste management companies globally including Biffa, Suez and Powerday in the UK, Thorntons Recycling in Ireland, and Rino Recycling and Bingo Industries in Australia. The business employs 90 people operating from a 66,000 sq. ft manufacturing facility at Rathcairn within the Irish-speaking Gaeltacht area of County Meath and exporting globally. Turmec is a client company of the Irish business development agency, Údarás na Gaeltachta. Irish private equity fund, Causeway Capital, is a cornerstone investor in Turmec Teoranta. The Irish Strategic Investment Fund is, in turn, an investor in Causeway Capital.
To learn more, go to www.turmec.com
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