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Aircon recovery
Lincolnshire

Yard for sale or lease

Large site at Heapham yr. Gainsborough, Lincs. Approx 44 acres including 3 bed detached bungalow with garage. 21.5 acres with 2 storage buildings with a possibility for various uses. The site is currently licensed as a vehicle salvage and spares yard with high security fencing.
Contact W J Furber by email or telephone: 01948 841179

If you supply a service or product to Authorised Treatment Facilities that are involved with depolluting and dismantling end of life vehicles and would like to appear in this listing then please contact us. If there isn't a particular category for your service, then we shall consider adding a new category.

Listings cost £130 per annum +vat for the first entry and £35+vat per entry for further listings under different classifications. For further details, please contact us by email or telephone us on 01544 267140.

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Latest stories

Processing your CATs in-house
We previously looked at the role of the merchant for processing your CATs. This issue we look at the potential of processing CATs in-house and ask if it could increase your profits?
Motorhog to host CARS 2014
CARS, the Complete Auto Recycling and Secondary Materials Show is back for Summer 2014 and boy, it looks as if it’s going to be bigger and better than the last show - and that’s going to take some doing!
VIC scheme - responses make interesting reading
We told you towards the end of last year that the government were asking for views on the VIC scheme. Recently they published a summary of the responses and it is good to see that many of those response originated from this industry.
Training doesn't need to cost a fortune!
You have to provide it and your employees have to follow it – that is a clear requirement of the law, but you don't need to make a ‘meal of it’ and it doesn't need to cost the earth!
PAS777 - is this the future for green parts standards?
The bare bones of the standard has now been set out following a meeting of interested parties last month.
Is DVLA hiding something?
There are about 1.2 million Certificates of Destruction (CODs) issued each year in the UK but its widely believed that there’s 2 million vehicles being taken off the road. That leaves a staggering 800,000 ELVs unaccounted for.
Getting hold of more motors
Many in the industry are suffering from a two fold problem; overpriced salvage making them uneconomic to break for spares and the other perennial problem, poor quality parts from ELVs. This has left the industry looking for new sources for suitable vehicles.
We must defend this part of our business
We mentioned a couple of issues ago the pressure we are under from new tyre manufacturers who would like to see used tyre sales banned. Training and certification is our route to maintaining this revenue source.

    

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