Highly durable, custom-made mixers from Landia are helping Cleanaway, one of the UK’s leading waste management companies, successfully treat leachate at its Rainham landfill site in Essex
Highly durable, custom-made mixers from Landia are helping Cleanaway, one of the UK’s leading waste management companies, successfully treat leachate at its Rainham landfill site in Essex. One of only two landfills in the whole of the UK capable of receiving waste by river-borne transportation, this strategically important Cleanaway site is utilising Landia specially-coated POD-I submersible mixers to suspend solids in two underground 160m3 leachate tanks. Working to very tight confines, with only a 6mm margin to spare, Landia custom-designed the POD-I mixers to fit the narrow access points of the Rainham site leachate tanks.

Able to withstand very harsh conditions, these 2-component-coated cast-iron mixers, all with 316 stainless steel submerged equipment, continuously agitate and homogenize to ensure that solids are not allowed to settle.

Operating around the clock, the 700rpm mixers have replaced aeration units that were no longer suitable for the high standard of leachate handling required by Cleanaway, as their Environmental Scientist Mr Andrew Whiteman explains: ‘Landia equipment is proving very reliable and effective at Rainham.

We have every confidence in the long term performance of these mixers which meet our established, stringent criteria for a highly engineered, professionally managed landfill site’.

He added: ‘Cleanaway recognise considerable experience in Landia in providing top quality mixers and pumps for leachate, as well as their impressive customer support’.