ACCESS is proud to support Grand Autos Racing as a sponsor for the 2018 South Australian motorsport season. Team owner and driver Anthony Norris has been dedicated to supporting motorsport in SA for over 20 years, combining his business Grand Auto Wreckers and his passion for competitive motorsport. As Datsun and Nissan specialists, Grand Auto’s […]
Construction of Access Recycling’s Adelaide shredding plant took a major step closer to completion in early July, with the arrival of the final hammer-mill pieces from Italy. The plant is expected to be commissioned by mid-August, 2016, and will supply Intercast & Forge with very clean metal under a long-term supply agreement. The metal will […]
ACCESS Recycling recently completed the scrapping of locomotives in Casino NSW for Aurizon Railways. The locomotives were stored on an active railway environment which is also a heritage listed site. The rail team had a strict time frame to carefully dismantle and remove the locomotives without disturbing the site and used strict environmental and safety […]
For over 20 years, ACCESS Recycling has been the leader in recycling of railway equipment and rolling stock. Recently, the company completed export of locomotives purchased from Aurizon Railways in QLD. Our customer, a Chilean railway operator, will refurbish them for reuse in their locomotive fleet. The operator transports large volumes of iron ore, copper […]
In December 2015 Access Recycling purchased the disused railway fuel terminal adjacent to its metal recycling facility in Fyshwick. Every week more than 1,000 tonnes of containerised scrap metal is freighted by the Access Recycling train service from Canberra to Port Botany for export to our South East Asian customers. Under present arrangements, the 50+ shipping […]
Access Recycling was pleased that our Development Application with Port Adelaide Enfield City Council was approved with no objections received. The development application was gazetted for public consultation for a period of 30 days. That fact there were no objections from businesses, or anyone else in the community, can only be taken as a vote […]
Adelaide based Intercast and Forge is Australia’s largest foundry, with a capacity to produce 55,000 tonnes per annum of premium ductile iron castings. Established in 1854, Intercast and Forge has developed to be one of the most innovative and technically advanced foundries in the world. They specialise in the manufacture of railway fastening equipment, the […]
Roads between Canberra and Port Botany in Sydney will be free of hundreds of B-double trucks thanks to an agreement between Access Recycling, the ACT Government and John Holland Rail. In a privately funded project, Access Recycling has been granted rights to use the railway line and the old Kingston container terminal to establish an […]
In October 2014 Access Recycling entered a service agreement with Asciano Services Limited to scrap 90 locomotives and 1,213 railway wagons over a 9 month period. The total volume of metal to be recycled exceeds 42,000 tonnes and represents the single largest metal recycling project currently underway in Australia. The locomotives and rolling stock are […]
The Access Recycling site in North Sydney now has the capability to ‘live load’ export shipping containers with baled scrap metal. In November 2013 a large metal baling press, with a metal compression force of 315 tonnes, was installed at the site. Most of the metal purchased at the site can now be pressed into […]