Tong Engineering (tongrecycling.com) is a UK-based, family-run manufacturer of bespoke handling equipment, based in Spilsby, Lincolnshire. Alongside its long-standing vegetable grading business, the company operates a dedicated recycling and waste handling division, trading as Tong Recycling, that designs and builds equipment for material recovery facilities and waste processing plants. The company exports to more than 20 countries.
Core products
Tong Recycling’s product range includes recycling trommels, star screens (including the licensed Pearson Star Screens design), MRF systems, eddy current separators, overband magnets, picking stations, conveying systems and conveyors, big bag filling bins, and weighers and baggers.
Materials and applications
Equipment is used for processing plastics, paper, glass, rubber, wood, aggregates and organic waste. Applications include bespoke MRF systems, anaerobic digestion and biogas infeed systems, and in-vessel composting systems, alongside full bespoke recycling plant design.
Background
The company traces its roots to 1930, when it began trading as an ironmonger in Spilsby before diversifying into handling equipment manufacturing. Now in its fourth generation of family ownership, Tong Engineering has grown into one of the UK’s established manufacturers of handling machinery, serving both the vegetable grading and recycling and waste handling industries from the same Spilsby site.
