PARNABY Cyclones finalised a £1.5 million sale at its recent open day held at WM Hamilton & Son’s Stonehouse base, as the business looks to further its presence in the Scottish market.
The family-owned Durham company was founded in 1968 as a processor of coal mine waste material. Today, it specialises in manufacturing bespoke materials wet processing solutions, with its innovations being used as far afield as India, New Zealand, China, and America.
Having maintained a long-term partnership with WM Hamilton, the open day allowed visitors to see its Recycled Aggregate Wash Plant 80-100TPH in action, alongside the new Parnaby Mobile 5/20 Barrel Wash Module.
The Recycled Aggregate Wash Plant processes construction and demolition waste, road sweepings, and gully and skip waste. Processing between 80 and 100 tonnes of recycled aggregate per hour, the system utilises Parnaby’s natural medium barrel and cyclone-dense washing system for material separation.
Offering a flexible solution, the Mobile 5/20 Barrel Wash Module can process up to 30 tonnes of road sweepings and skip fines per hour to create high-quality recycled aggregate. Featuring very thick plates and minimum moving parts, the innovation vows to deliver a long lifespan.
The Scottish open day also included a series of presentations and tours – with visitors being encouraged to return to the site to trial their own materials on the innovations, courtesy of WM Hamilton.
Speaking to Project Plant, Ian Parnaby, technical director at Parnaby Cyclones, praised WM Hamilton for its willingness to support other businesses in identifying machinery which will ultimately help enhance the sector’s environmental credentials.
“The open day continues because we’ve got more trials of other people’s materials going through the plant next week,” he added. “The guys at WM Hamilton are being so accommodating and I think it shows what a fantastic team of people they have.
“It’s a big investment. It’s very stressful to buy plant for such a high value and to have uncertainty on outputs and targets – so being able to see the outputs in-situ from the plant gives (customers) that confidence to move forward.”
The £1.5 million sale of the Recycled Aggregate Wash Plant was to a client Parnaby had been in discussions with for some time.
Attending the live demo, they were able to observe its performance with challenging materials, before reviewing operational, capital costs, and incorporating it into larger system which the Parnaby team will do via its bespoke offering.
“We’ll work with companies – and if they have particular concerns, then we’ll adapt and focus our efforts to make sure they’re happy,” Ian added, explaining the importance of acknowledging different operations and sites.
“It might not be until they see the equipment in person – because when you’re just looking at drawings or a 3D model, you don’t see all the intricate parts of the equipment… sometimes it’s only when you’re operating it on your site you think ‘I could be doing with it being a bit different’ – we’re very open to help on that front, and we’ll work to adapt it.”
A bespoke Parnaby aggregates washing plant has been in operation at WM Hamilton’s Dovesdale Farm site for some time, with Ian playing a key part in its modular design. Capable of processing up to 80tph of muckaway, as well as sweeping and gully waste, the solution boasts unique features of density separation designed to efficiently remove organics from all product size fractions.
The process has a closed-circuit water treatment system, with a Parnaby high-rate thickener/clarifier and incorporates a Diemme Soils overhead beam filter plate press.
With a number of clients already in Scotland, Ian revealed that Parnaby is eyeing further expansions north of the border. The firm will be making its ScotPlant debut in April.
“ScotPlant is going to be good. We’re looking forward to being there,” Ian continued. “Talking to someone in person, looking at their material, getting a real handle on what their issues are, what they want to do with the material, what their requirements are for the output specifications, the different sites, layouts – you only get to know these sorts of details from talking face-to-face.”
