Built to spec for heavy duty work, Thomas Manufacturing’s trommel range is up to the task
Material recycling is getting more popular but for Thomas Manufacturing’s Errol Thomas, the demand for trommels has never slowed.
“For recycling, we probably haven’t stopped for the last 10 to 15 years,” he says. “In all states we have lots of gear doing recycling,”
Thomas Manufacturing builds trommels, as well as batching plants, conveyors, industrial feeders and much more, at its plant in Dalby, in Queensland’s south east.
Used to sort through various materials to screen out undesired objects, the market for trommels is a wide one, Thomas says.
“One plant might be mulch, the next one might be construction and demolition based – you never know what the next phone call will be.”
For mulch and ground green waste separation, the standard trommels Thomas builds are equipped with a 6m x 2m double barrel fitted to a single frame, powered by four 5.5kW drives and with a 10 cubic metre feeder, feeding onto a discharge conveyor to the trommel.
Those pictured here have recently been sold to heavy haulage and land clearing company Corbet’s Group to sort through bark and mulch for its land clearing division.
For concrete recycling, Thomas builds a 6m x 2m trommel fitted with high tensile mesh and 100mm lifters, powered by two SEW 5.5kW drives, as the standard model.
That said, the trommels sold are built to a customer’s needs – depending on how big the company is, and what they are processing.
“There’s a lot of bin companies in Sydney that we deal with, some of them are only have small yards and deal with small bins, and some of the have quite large operations where they’re using 20 metre skips… and they might bring those in five to 10 of those a day,” he says.
“Your equipment’s got to be big enough to handle all that – and then sometimes they are processing every day and sometimes they’re only processing three days a week.”
For construction and demolition waste, the trommels are often used to sort through and separate paper, plastics and other materials from concrete, brick and masonry – with that material often then crushed and used for ground coverage on other building sites.
“For C&D Waste you’ve got to build the gear a little bit differently – the trommels are built a lot more heavy duty,” Thomas says.
“Most of these guys are pre-sorting everything before it goes into the system, on the ground using small excavators and equipment – but you can get logs and all sorts of stuff in C&D waste,” he says.
All Thomas Manufacturing trommels come with a 12 month warranty and are sold around Australia.
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