Resource recovery consultancy Axion Consulting (Axion) has launched a new range of ‘Expert Opinion and Arbitration Advice’ services to provide engineering advice on recycling and waste processes in cases of industrial and commercial disputes.
The services – which include litigation, arbitration, adjudication and mediation – will see Axion offer legal advice and opinion in disputes over processing plants or ‘items of equipment that are not achieving their design requirements or capabilities, in terms of tonnage, machine availability, product yield and purity, or machine effectiveness’.
Axion Principal Engineer Simon Wilkinson said that the legal service has been developed following client demand, adding: “We understand that changes to infeed material – such as variations in composition, biodegradability, density or moisture – can have detrimental effects on waste processing and recycling plant performance leading to contractual disputes that need to be resolved.
“We can examine evidence and provide independent technical reports on whole plants, processes and individual pieces of equipment that are not operating according to design specifications. Capital (CAPEX) and operating (OPEX) estimates for plant modifications or replacement equipment and machinery can also be supplied.”
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