plastic sorting Articles
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Nemetz – Plastics Sorting - Case Study
Customer Over the course of the past 100 years, Nemetz Entsorgung und Transport AG has developed from a small transport company using horse-drawn carriages to an innovative waste disposal company. Its first sorting line was opened some 30 years ago in a 1,400-m² hall in Leopoldsdorf. Four years later, the second sorting line for the sorting of plastic foils was put into service. After a ...
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Case study - Saubermacher Dienstleistungs AG –Austria - Plastic sorting plant for light packaging waste
Customer SAUBERMACHER DIENSTLEISTUNGS AG is the leader of the Austrian recycling and waste collection market. The company, founded in 1979 by the family Roth, is now listed on the stock market and has 3,900 employees. SAUBERMACHER is collecting and recycling from approximately 1,600 communities in Central Europe and collaborates with over 40,000 commercial and industry partners. Requirements ...
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Ferrous scrap: are the best prices still to come?
In many instances, steel scrap prices have more than doubled since the latter part of 2007. And the upward momentum could be sustained into the second half of this year, according to expert feedback from the BIR Spring Convention in Monte-Carlo. However, higher prices are also placing significantly more pressure on the financing of steel and scrap processing operations, it was noted. Nickel ...
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Oct. 2018 Evolution: From Plastic Sorting to Process Analysis of Secondary Fuels
In Europe, the amount of plastics wastes produced amounts to about 25 million tonnes a year. On the average, no less than 37 kg plastic waste a year will be produced by each German, this amount being based on nothing else but packaging waste [1]. Quite often these plastics will end up as micro-plastics in the air, in the soil and in the sea and thus in our foodstuffs. To counteract this adverse ...
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In the Works: Magnetic Plastics
(from Recycling Today Magazine) Harnessing the power of magnetic currents has long been an effective way to separate and recover scrap metals. Now, researchers are looking at ways to use this same power to improve scrap plastic sorting methods. Scrap plastic comes in the form of production or processing scrap and from post-consumer streams. Production scrap can often be components or ...
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Principles of Plastic Resource Recycling and the Appropriate Machinery to Use
Introduction Plastic recycling plays a crucial role in reducing the environmental impact of plastic waste and conserving valuable resources. By implementing effective recycling practices, we can minimize the amount of plastic ending up in landfills or polluting our oceans. In this article, we will explore the principles of plastic resource recycling and discuss the machinery that is ...
By Antecs
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New Process to Turn Used Plastics into Virgin Quality Products
A research group at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, has developed an efficient process for breaking down any plastic waste to a molecular level. The resulting gases can then be transformed back into new plastics – of the same quality as the original. The new process could transform today's plastic factories into recycling refineries, within the framework of their existing ...
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5 Ways to Reduce Halloween Waste
With Halloween coming up just around the corner, people are getting excited by the festivities even though they may be carried out a little differently this year because of the global pandemic (please be sure to check the social distancing guidelines of your community!). Whether or not you are able to go trick-or-treating this year, there are still so many ways to celebrate Halloween with loved ...
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Small Industrial Shredder for Sale
The small two-shaft shredders of the GD2 and GD3 are designed for applications requiring longer life span, more power and reliability and less maintenance, e.g. in waste sorting facilities, plastic recycling lines in central cooking facilities. The shredders are designed for shredding paper, aluminium drink cans, PET bottles, electronic waste, wooden pallets, thinner aluminium and copper cables, ...
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Ways To Locate The Best Tyre Pyrolysis Plant Price
Are you presently needing a whole new pyrolysis plant to your business? If you have, you have to consider all your options. Many of these companies are designed for producing extravagant machines, able to handle 1000s of tons of material easily. Whether you are working together with plastic, rubber, or other sorts of waste material that can be transformed into burnable fuel, you require a thing ...
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Double-shaft Shredder Machine for Sale Near Philippines
The GD type two-shaft industrial shredder for sale near Philippines is designed for applications requiring longer life span, more power and reliability and less maintenance, e.g. in waste sorting facilities, plastic recycling lines, used passenger car tyres processing facilities, used oil filters, wood shredding etc. The resulting crushed material can be used as alternative fuel, for further ...
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Plastic Recycling Process
Plastic recycling is the process of recovering scrap or waste plastics and reprocessing the material into useful products, sometimes completely different in form from their. original state. For instance, this could mean melting down soft drink bottles and then casting them as plastic chairs and tables. Typically a plastic is not recycled into the same type of plastic, and products made from ...
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Hanbury Plastic Recycling – Stoke on Trent, UK case study
CUSTOMER HPR Limited creates high quality plastic feedstock materials, by sorting co-mingled commercial, industrial and post-consumer waste into separated polymer streams of high purity since 2011. HPR Limited process 40,000 tonnes/year of mixed kerbside collected plastic material. SITUATION HPR were looking for a solution to sort efficiently transparent HDPE (milk bottles) from coloured HDPE ...
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New sorting plant for dry commingled and C&I waste in Nottingham
The recycling company Wastecycle in Nottingham expects to process in excess of 45,000t / year and are pleased that the implementation of the plant has allowed them the flexibly to achieve positive results from the various waste streams. The management of Wastecycle asked KMH Systems and REDWAVE to assist them in developing together a new plant based on the following objectives: Increase ...
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Flake Sorting: Innovation in Plastics Recycling
The proper management of plastic waste is one of the main environmental concerns of our time. The production of plastics, its rapid consumption and its widespread dumping in the natural environment – both on land and at sea – has increased exponentially in the last 70 years.?The European Investment Bank (EIB) has presented a ?new study?analyzing the inefficiencies of the plastics ...
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Redwave - separation of transparent and white HDPE
REDWAVE - sensor based sorting machines - optimise the separation of recyclable plastic materials: Upon customer request the separation of transparent and white HDPE bottles has been realized for the first time in a sorting plant. It is a challenging task as hardly any difference can be detected in the colour spectrum between transparent and white bottles. In spite of these challenging ...
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FLOTTWEG SORTICANTER® for Plastic recycling
How many times each day do you use something made out of plastic? From a toothbrush to a soda pop bottle, from a grocery bag to a garden hose, plastics are part of our daily life. Needless to mention the huge amount of waste plastics generated in the industry. You probably know that plastics are made from petroleum, a non-renewable resource. When plastics are thrown away, they become part of the ...
By Flottweg SE
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What is the best way of recycling plastic?
Nowadays, there are three main ways to recycle waste plastics: thermal pyrolysis recycling, melt recycling, and composite recycling. For investors, the most profitable and simple operation is the recycling method is thermal pyrolysis. The following is an introduction and analysis of the three plastic recycling methods and video: 1. Thermal pyrolysis recycling In this method, waste plastics are ...
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Case study - PFR Nord GmbH - PET recycling plant
Customer The Mensing Group of Companies in Hohenwestedt (Germany) invests almost € 10 million in the construction of a new PET recycling plant. The construction of the recycling plant is associated with the formation of PFR Nord GmbH in Hohenwestedt. About 30 new jobs have resulted there. On the whole, Mensing Group, which also includes AFA Nord GmbH and TM Recycling GmbH, has a headcount ...
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Navigating Critical Considerations of Plastic Pyrolysis
In the realm of sustainable waste management, plastic pyrolysis emerges as a pivotal technology, promising to redefine our approach to plastic disposal. This process, which involves the thermal decomposition of plastic waste in the absence of oxygen, is not without its intricacies. Delving into the core of plastic pyrolysis, several nuanced aspects demand our attention for a comprehensive ...
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