Heil Powerlink – Robust, Reliable and Cost Effective!
According to Brian Jones, Transport and Environmental Waste Manager for Castle Morpeth Borough Council, the Heil Powerlink is a robust, reliable and cost effective piece of refuse collection equipment.
Castle Morpeth Borough Council took delivery of its first vehicle with Heil Powerlink compaction equipment in March 1999 and now has total of nine vehicles with Heil compaction bodies. Londonderry Garage has recently supplied the Borough Council with five new Heil Powerlinks which are being used for the collection of recycling and household refuse. The new Powerlinks have a range of carrying capacity from 16 to 22 cubic metres.
“Their performance has been excellent,” says Brian Jones. “With our fleet of Heil units, the council is in a position where it can carry out its statutory duties in a confident, cost effective manner.”
Brian continues: “The Powerlink is of a robust quality that can take the punishment of the ever-increasing demands of recycling and refuse collection. Having such reliable equipment has been key to our success in having the highest household recycling rate in the region, way above the national average at 37%.”
Castle Morpeth Borough Council has found that the Powerlinks have significantly reduced maintenance due to the packing mechanism, which is set up of links and hardened pins. This has reduced vehicle downtime in relation to the conventional equipment with slide block arrangement.
Along with normal domestic refuse collection, Castle Morpeth Borough Council offers kerbside recycling service of dry recyclables to the whole of the borough. Of those properties, 3,300 households are offered a green waste collection and 3,100 receive a doorstep glass collection service. These services will be extended to more properties this year.
Castle Morpeth Borough Council also provides a weekly trade collection of residual and recycling waste.
The Powerlink, manufactured by Heil, provides flexibility to any RCV fleet. With its full-cycle compaction mechanism, it produces less friction than conventional channelled compaction systems thus ensuring that a greater force is directed into the load. The reduction of friction increases durability of materials, improving whole life costs.
Additionally a newly designed hydraulic system offers unique and unparalleled performance; reduced downtime; lower maintenance costs and less risk of environmental pollution. Heil offers a variety of options for body sizes on the Powerlink with cubic capacities of 16 to 26m³.