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LJH adds a DUO of talent

Posted 28 January 2012 - 5:42am by chris

 

LJH based in the tiny village of Chantry on the top of the Mendip Hills has been servicing local quarries with heavy plant for years but has spread its wings since linking up with a Coventry based company under the brand name DUO

The result of a joint venture arrangement between Powerscreen Washing Systems and Hydrex, and LJH is the fruition of a business concept of "Two Working as One". LJH Group is the manufacturing component of the venture. The new company will provide the Aggregate, Recycling and Material Handling Industries with a comprehensive package of complete processing solutions including specific industrial applications for; waste transfer stations, quarrying, sugar beet, metal recycling, roads, port handling and waste paper.

LJH offers R&D facilities using the latest CAD technology enabling it to provide development facilities for other companies supplying to the mineral extraction and recycling industries. This has benefited LJH by improving its knowledge and efficiency. Having established a reputation for high quality workmanship, solid rugged design, and quick delivery LJH has decided to invest further and against the backdrop of continuing job shedding in the West Country it is invest in hiring Mechanical Engineers with  in depth Autocad skills.

LJH now have an eclectic range of services, from turnkey projects, contract manufacturing, hire of mobile screening and crushing plant, sale of reconditioned used plant, as well as design services, to the supply of screening and waste sorting products.

Domestic and international opportunities abound and the ripple effect in business is being seen here as LJH are likely to be a beneficiary of £1.1 billion of increased capacity recently granted to Aggregate Industries . With companies elsewhere in the UK , like Recycoal, looking at international markets in coal recycling from Poland to Australia sub-contracting opportunities will arise.

In difficult market conditions it is great to be able to record another good news West Country business story.

 

Author: Chris Slay 

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West Country digs deeper. £1,000,000,000 deeper

Posted 14 January 2012 - 2:49pm by chris

 

Great news for the West Country as up to 250 jobs have been saved after plans to deepen the Torr Works Quarry at East Cranmore in the Mendip hills in Somerset was given the go-ahead.

The planning application, submitted by quarry owners Aggregate Industries UK, was approved by Somerset County Council this week. The permission will release a further 115 million tonnes of limestone aggregate over the next 30 years.

Estates manager of Aggregate Industries South West, John Penny, said: "The proposal will safeguard a significant number of jobs at the quarry and the company's nearby regional office – between 100 and 250 – in terms of direct employees, hauliers and support staff for the medium to long term but the benefits also support the local infrastructure and nearby villages such as Mells of Little Jack Horner fame.

"It is the company's view that the deepening of Torr represents the best environmental and sustainable option for securing medium to long-term strategic reserves of crushed rock in Somerset."

The works will dig out millions of tonnes of stone each year – worth more than £1.1 billion.
The site has provided stone for some of the UK's biggest civil engineering projects including the Channel Tunnel and the second crossing over the River Severn.

Planning conditions included ensuring half of the current output is carried by rail not road and all the extra stone would take the same route. Noise measures will be put in place when blasting occurs and wildlife – particularly peregrine falcons which nest on quarry ledges – will also be protected.

Mr Penny added: "The decision means the company will make a significant financial contribution towards the Mendips Living Landscapes project, details of which and a mechanism for delivery are to be agreed with the county council.This would present an opportunity to work with the Wildlife Trust and community groups towards beneficial and sustainable landscape enhancement projects, creating a positive legacy on the East Mendips.The release of new reserves will allow for a significant investment to be made at the quarry in the coming years in terms of replacement processing plant and enhancement of the rail facilities."

For an area that has lost a lot of manufacturing businesses to the recession it is good see the local council backing local enterprise albeit that it is now internationally owned.

As a local resident myself I welcome this decision as should others

Author:Chris Slay
 

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