BIG MEAN MULCHING MACHINE IS SPENCER’S WAY OF THE FUTURE

A specialist environmental services contractor has made a £100,000 investment in the only machine of its kind in Wales to help it eat up the opposition and spit them out – in an environmentally friendly way.

Spencer Environmental Care Associates Limited has taken delivery of the huge mulching machine to help it develop the fast-growing market for clearing and re-instating land, particularly for the laying of new pipelines.

The move has created three permanent full time jobs and secured two existing jobs at the West Wales-based company, which operates across Wales and the West Midlands from bases at Llandysul, Swansea, Pont-Abraham and Newtown.

The investment has been made possible through a successful funding package put together with the help of professional advisers Broomfield and Alexander Limited. It includes an Assembly Investment Grant and loan funding from Finance Wales, and enables the company to begin a new phase in its development.

The AHWI RT400 tracked mulcher will be used on contracts the company has with Morrison Construction on its pipe remediation works across Wales for Welsh Water, and for the clearing and reinstatement of land affected by the construction of the new 140 kilometre LNG pipeline being constructed between Pembrokeshire and the Midlands.

The work is environmentally sensitive, and clearance has to be carefully managed and the area reinstated following completion. The mulcher eats its way through large quantities of cleared hedgerow and vegetation in an efficient and environmentally sustainable way, mulching leaves and wood and spitting them out as woodchip as it works, to form a natural soil enhancer which can be used to support the regeneration stage of the site.

Spencer Environmental Care Associates director Jamie Jukes said the Broomfield and Alexander team’s successful input into the bid for funding had helped position the company for the next phase of its expansion.

“Buying this machine represents a major investment for us, and is the springboard to the next stage of our development,” he said. “Currently, we hire specialist equipment on a per day basis for particular assignments, but this is not always efficient or practical for the company.

“The AHWI RT400 means we will now be able to deliver contracts much more efficiently, which puts us in a position to bid effectively for a wide range of new assignments.”

Spencer Environmental Care Associates employs 16 people, drawing in additional seasonal staff as necessary.

It provides a full range of land management, landscaping and environmental services to a range of clients across all industries, including grounds maintenance, arboriculture, vegetation clearance, land remediation, landscaping and fencing.

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Spencer Environmental Care Associates director Jamie Jukes (above and right) with Broomfield and Alexander’s Seamus Gates.