by Kyle Molyneux | Fri 19 Jun 2020
Italian debut for Bobcat Waste Expert
A new Bobcat TL43.80HF Waste Expert telescopic loader has been put into service by Gatim Srl, a tyre recycling company based in Calabria, Italy. Sold by La Nordica Macchine Srl, the new Authorised Bobcat dealer in Calabria, this is the first sale in Italy of a Bobcat Waste Expert telescopic loader.
Recent important developments have produced strong growth in the market for recycled ELT in Italy. Approximately 400,000 tonnes of ELT is produced every year in the country through the scrapping of vehicles and spare parts. The country’s Minister of the Environment passed an ‘End of Waste’ Decree specifically for recycled ELT rubber in April 2020. This provision definitively recognizes the recycling of ELT as a cornerstone of the circular economy for tyres in Italy. The Decree is aimed at increasing the share of ELT destined for material recovery, improving the quality of the recycled materials and supporting the development and investments in companies in the ELT recycling chain.
Gatim has purchased the new Bobcat TL43.80HF Waste Expert telescopic loader for use at the company’s recycling plant, built in 2001 on 12,000m2 of industrial land, for the transformation of special waste into raw materials, in particular rubber granulate, used in the construction of synthetic pitches for football and other sports, rubber and textile insulating panels and rubber floors used in the public and private construction industry.
Equipped with special extreme-duty solid tyres, the Bobcat TL43.80HF Waste Expert telescopic loader provides a combination of compactness and high operating capacity to meet customers’ needs and expectations. The TL43.80HF Waste Expert, working together with a Bobcat skid-steer loader, is involved in different stages of the treatment, crushing and processing of ELT. Specifically, it is used with forks for handling still untreated tyres, with a bucket for loading the product from the first processing stage and, again with a bucket, for loading material into containers after the second stage. In many cases in this process, material must be handled in confined spaces.
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