Island Life Magazine Ltd February/March 2012 | Page 135

BUSINESS
crushes and carefully grades them for
various applications. The company
recycles 60,000 tons of aggregate
annually. Aggregate that would have
gone to landfill without this recycling
process.
The general state of the road
surfaces on the Isle of Wight is
classified as poor to extremely poor
by the Department for Transport, and
scheduled for urgent replacement. The
traditional approach to restructuring a
road is to scrape away and discard the
old material and then replace it with a
made up of newly quarried (known as
first life) aggregate.
Now that the Government has
decided to completely renew the
Island’s roads HJ Bennett is ready with
a greener solution. Their Eco-Base
system allows the old material to
be recycled and laid back down as
a durable new surface, reducing

energy usage and
emissions. The
Eco-Base binder
captures any toxic
components and
binds them within
the overall mix
to render an end
product that’s
completely safe.
This means
that there is
very little waste
and no need for
expensive recycling
treatments or landfill. The result is a
new road sub base at a fraction of the
cost and a considerably reduced carbon
footprint.
Nigel Bennett said: “Way ahead of
the rest of the industry we began to
develop innovative ideas to reduce
the environmental impact of our

operations. Today this is what we’re
all about, to show how we provide
PFIs and utility companies - not only
with highly cost-effective solutions
- but with a unique and unbeatable
environmental answer to road
replenishment.”

Click4Internet is the reliable solution
Click4Internet was founded by Lisa
Hollyhead, Farringford’s former
owner, after she discovered it hard
to attract Corporate bookings
because her ‘broadband’ was so
slow.
Although improvements to the
local telephone exchange were
promised, she knew that all forms
of ‘broadband’ telephone lines and
(as with most rural areas) the old
phone lines were not going to be
renewed, so telephone exchange
improvements would not improve
speed. She researched that even the
fastest ‘broadband’ systems cannot
offer good upload - an important
factor.
With her accounting background
Lisa saw that even if some new
system could be found to overcome
the shortcomings of all ‘broadband’

services, digging trenches and
running new lines would be too
costly.
Realising wireless technology
is used to safely guide every
airliner and how remote military
aircraft, satellites and mars rovers
are controlled from many miles
away, feeding TV images, all using
wireless systems, Lisa realised that a
reliable wireless solution would be
perfect for rural areas.
There was no viable technology
available so she teamed up with
technical advisors and entrepreneur
Frazer Munro to develop Wiber® now a well proven and widely used
technology giving fibre-optic style
performance delivered through the
air.
The extensive Wiber® system is
used by many of the Island’s best

known companies but equally
enjoyed by many home users too.
Wiber® (Wireless-Fibre) overcomes
the uncertain speeds and false
promises so commonly associated
with all ‘broadband’ systems
and the Wiber® network delivers
Megaband™ which outperforms all
forms of ‘broadband’ improving
downloads and offering uploads
many times faster. The extensive
Wiber® system is used by many of
the Island’s best known companies.

Click4internet
TEL: [phone] www.click4internet.com

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