by Kyle Molyneux | Tue 25 Jun 2024
Valencia and Ulrich share a high-five
Valencia, the UK's largest privately-owned landfill operator, has acquired a record number of large plant attachments from Ulrich, including the manufacturer's largest-ever High Tip high-discharge bucket.
Valencia Waste Management has purchased five High Tip buckets from Ulrich Attachments so far this year, bring its total of that particular piece of waste handling equipment to 16 since its parent company Frank Solutions acquired Viridor two years ago. The most recent five High Tips range from 10m3 to Ulrich's largest-ever – a 14m3 capacity bucket, which is big enough to hold 20 of Ulrich's factory workers – that was required to complement the larger dumper trucks the operators has also been acquiring due to an expansion in recycling facilities, with six new waste transfer sheds currently under construction.
"This creates extra shovel work and larger operations means larger dumpers which equates to larger shovels to move the waste quicker," said Valencia's national fleet and plant manager Mark Smalley.
The five Ulrich High Tips so far this year will probably not be the last either. "We probably will purchase more Ulrich Attachments this year as we have some older non-Ulrich buckets in the fleet that we inherited from the Viridor takeover that will be replaced along with any more Volvo shovel acquisitions. Again, these will be used for waste handling," added Mark.
One of Valencia's 12m3 High Tips will showcase on Ulrich's stand (W18) at Hillhead 2024 (June 25th to 27th in Buxton).
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