Latest News - May 2008

SPANISH WASTE COMPANIES VISIT MORGAN EVERETT

Representatives of two Spanish waste treatment companies have paid a visit to the UK to see new waste technology developed by the Hampshire engineering company Morgan Everett. Fransisco and Eduardo Blanes from CEC Residuos in Valencia, and Luís Pardo and Marcos de la Fuente from Gestán in Galicia, visited three sets of facilities to see the breakthrough 'PyroPure' technology. The facilities were also viewed by Jose Angel Marrero Socorro, who is responsible for waste management in Las Palmas in Gran Canaria. Accompanying the visitors, along with Morgan Everett's UK staff, was Agustín López from the company's Spanish distributor, 'Sinergia'.

The party viewed the PyroPure® technology recently installed in the Sustainability Centre, near East Meon in Hampshire. This Centre, which practices environmentally sustainable methods and recently hosted the Hampshire Green Fair, already recycles and composts much of its waste. PyroPure® is a complementary approach, enabling the remaining, non-recyclable waste to be handled in a way that does not harm the environment.

Instead of this waste being collected and transported to a landfill, the PyroPure® system destroys it on site, leaving nothing to be collected. All that remains from a full waste load is a handful of ash that is flushed into the drain which leads to a treatment plant also within the Sustainability Centre.

The visitors also viewed the Morgan Everett laboratory facilities, where the product has been developed and tested. In addition, they travelled to the London Borough of Wandsworth to view the waste handling system installed in the basement of a 14 storey apartment block to feed waste from a chute into waiting PyroPure® units: this forms part of a trial of the technology for municipal waste.

The visitors were all enthused by what they saw and are keen to try out the technology in Spain, as their country is facing similar problems to the UK in terms of escalating costs of waste disposal and lack of available landfill space.

Ted Brown, Morgan Everett CEO, said:

"We have been delighted by the level of local and international interest in the PyroPure® technology and we are very pleased to be hosting visitors from Spain. The cost savings of destroying waste in situ are increasingly apparent and the operation at the Sustainability Centre also illustrates the environmental credentials of this approach."

The PyroPure® technology has been tested extensively in the laboratory and is now being demonstrated in a series of real-life applications. PyroPure® units are expected to be available to commercial customers in late 2008. Versions suitable for domestic use will be developed in 2009.

Editor's notes

• PyroPure is a registered trademark. The PyroPure® units are assembled by Main Systems Ltd and the automated waste handling systems by GEO Robson (Conveyors) Ltd.
• Morgan Everett was started in 2002 with a single minded mission to invent technologies that destroy waste at source. It is an evolution of a family research and development business owned by Howard and Sue Clarke, which has produced innovative products and services over the last 25 years. Its track record includes manufacturing world first technology in pain relief systems, high speed production lines and lighting systems. Following the design and build of the first PyroPure® test rigs, Morgan Everett Ltd secured venture capital backing from E-Synergy Ltd and the company has grown strongly. Morgan Everett's chairman is James Braithwaite, who is also Chairman of SEEDA, the South East of England Development Agency. Ted Brown is the Chief Executive Officer. He was COO of Rentokil Initial, and his vast experience is transforming Morgan Everett from an invention led business into a mainstream waste management player.
• Morgan Everett has an exclusive agreement with Connaught for the introduction of PyroPure® for social housing, Connaught is a leading provider of planned and response maintenance, gas appliance maintenance and installation, recycling, waste management, cleaning and void management services.
• Further information on Morgan Everett and PyroPure® is available on this site.
• Information on the Sustainability Centre is available on www.earthworks-trust.com.

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