Local Construction Companies Achieve £1.9m In Cost Savings

Local construction and demolition companies have achieved  cost savings of £1.96 million thanks to a mobile crushing and  screening service provided by JNJ Crushing & Screening Ltd.

Based in Craigavon, JNJ Crushing  & Screening Ltd operates on  construction sites where waste is  generated.  The company provides a crushing  service for the concrete waste  which would otherwise go to  landfill, producing valuable  recycled material.  As a result, to date 37,500 tonnes  of material have been diverted  from landfill at a cost saving of  approximately £50 per tonne – and  in its new crushed state the  recycled material has generated  additional sales of £206,250 for  the companies involved.JNJ  Crushing & Screening identified  the opportunity to offer its  screening and crushing service to  construction and demolition  companies through involvement in  a service delivered by Invest  Northern Ireland, which focuses on  industrial symbiosis.  The service connects businesses  that have unused or wasted  resources, such as materials,  heat, transport, production  capacity, skills or storage, to other  businesses that could use those  resources. Through the service  JNJ Crushing & Screening has  been introduced to companies  seeking to reduce their concrete  waste and generate new income  streams from the aggregate  produced from the crushing  process.  Without the intervention of JNJ the  concrete waste would be destined  for landfill at significant cost. The  aggregate produced by the JNJ  process meets the requirements of  the quality protocol for recycled  aggregate and is suitable for other  construction projects or can be  reused in the manufacture of  concrete products.