In August Lake Macquarie City Council took delivery of a Bagela 10000 recycler. This is being set up as an automated unit in the Teralba quarry to process 5,000 tonnes of reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) per annum.
Martin Boyle, Services Manager with CiviLake, Council’s construction and maintenance business unit , said that the reheated RAP material will be used for pot hole repairs and heavy patching.
“Using this material is both a cost effective and an environmental solution for Council,” he said. The automation by CiviLake is an innovative step to provide for mechanical loading by a conveyor, an injection system for bitumen additives and drive under access for direct loading of trucks. All controls will be located in an adjacent control room enabling staff to operate both the Council recycler and a gravel pugmill in the quarry allowing for improved plant and labour resource utilisation.
“These machines are typically used as mobile units for in-situ operation – putting down the same but rejuvenated material that has come up,” said Ian Thomson from Bagela Australia.
Bagela machines are also effectively used to dry soils and heat gravel for treatment of road surfaces. Martin Boyle said that the unit would pay for capital expenditure on the Bagela plus other plant and equipment set up costs within three years with a production of only 2,500 tonnes per annum.
The Bagela asphalt recycler purchase demonstrates Lake Macquarie City Council’s commitment to environmentally sustainable outcomes and the re-use of a material that would otherwise go to landfill or have a low value end use as shoulder material.
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* Copy supplied by Bagela Australia
