Dust defeated at wood recycling plant as Landia’s choppers pump recycled rainwater

Recycled rainwater from R. Plevin & Sons’ holding reservoir (capacity 1.5 million litres) , is pumped by the Landia MPTKs to water cannons, which damp down wood stored on a two and a half acre concrete pad. This process eliminates any potential dust problems and is particularly important in dry and windy weather.

“Landia’s chopper pumps have to deal with a significant element of wood waste, dust and wood-chips, but have proved very capable and reliable,” said R. Plevin & Sons’ Managing Director, Jamie Plevin.

The innovative knife system of Landia’s MPTK Chopper Pump ensures that solids cannot get into the pump and clog it up, so there is no downtime for end-users.

R Plevin and Sons opened a new wood recycling facility in 2005, which has the capacity to reprocess almost 100,000 tonnes of waste wood per year. The plant manufactures a wide variety of recycled wood products, including animal bedding, woodchip for the use in the panel board, horticultural and biomass industries. The site also has capacity to be used as a green waste composting facility.