scrap processing Articles
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Radiation detection market is HOT
The number of radiation incidents has increased over recent years; at the same time, the issue has been climbing up the scrap processing agenda, with sales of detection equipment scaling new heights. This article looks at latest trends in radiation detection and at the growing sophistication of the equipment designed to uncover radioactive sources in scrap metal and other material ...
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Iron scrap processing
In this article, we try to discuss the processing of scrap iron so that people who intend to enter the profession, become relatively familiar with it. But before that, let’s look at the concept of processing. What is meant by waste processing? As you know, both metal and non-metal wastes are stored in warehouses or sheds and operations are performed on them to be prepared for optimal ...
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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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The shredding of scraps and shavings in PTFE
Semi-finished products made of Polytetrafluoroethylene (abbr. PTFE), commercially known as Teflon, can come to cost even more than 12 €/Kg. From this we can understand how convenient it would be to recover the scraps from processing of this material. This is probably what our Milanese customer in the sector had in mind when he presented us with his problem regarding the shredding of scraps ...
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Screen classifying cutters meet productivity needs of extrusion and thermoforming lines
A major plastics thermoformer, whose operations include sheet extrusion and calendering, installed 20 screen classifying cutters from Munson Machinery Co. Inc., Utica, NY, to assure efficient granulation and sizing of its process scrap. It is essential that the cutters work to full capacity during production runs and deliver properly-sized granulate for processing. The company specified Munson's ...
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Market Is Calling for the Scrap Metal Crusher Machine
In the twenty first century, the steel industry of China steps into its rapid developing stage. Scrap metal crusher machine is developing with the quick demands of the market. It is a way to reuse and recycle the scraps of the steel by crushing and classifying different quality steel. There is a large demand for the scrap metal crusher from the market. Steel crushed after crushing equipment has ...
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Secondary materials transfer from Japan to China: destination analysis
China has been the largest importer of secondary materials for recycling from Japan during the past decade. In this study, we analyzed the transfer of major secondary materials (plastic, steel, copper, and aluminum scrap) from Japan to China. We identified specific destinations for secondary materials, and the characteristics of secondary materials transferred to China. The major destination for ...
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Aluminium Scrap Recycling Process
Aluminum is one of the metals with the highest recovery rate and the largest demand in the world. The energy used for recycling waste aluminum is only 5% of the new aluminum from its ore bauxite, which is a very cost-effective and environmentally friendly business. Moreover, aluminum is infinitely recyclable, which means that it can be recycled repeatedly without losing the corresponding quality. ...
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Titanium Scrap Metal Processing
Background A world-class processor of titanium scrap had a wash system whose cleaning solution was becoming contaminated with both free floating unemulsified tramp oil and emulsified water soluble oil that was being washed off of titanium turnings. As the level of oil contamination increased over time in the wash solution, cleaning effectiveness diminished. The processor uses a metric, which ...
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TANA Shark shreds even tough materials - Case Study
Reststofftechnik GmbH is an Austrian company that specializes in the processing and recycling of scrap materials. The processing of tough materials is no problem with the TANA Shark. It’s a sunny day and we are currently in Henndorf am Wallersee, Austria, to meet up with Managing Director Georg Geissler. Reststofftechnik is located here, near Salzburg, and has been recycling materials for ...
By Tana Oy
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Inside EPA Features Comments Made During B&C FIFRA Hot Topics Webinar
On April 10, 2018, Inside EPA included quotes from Bergeson & Campbell, P.C. (B&C®) and Bloomberg BNA’s FIFRA Hot Topics webinar in the article “Former EPA official 'gloomy' on ESA pesticide deal.” A former senior EPA pesticide official is pessimistic that federal officials will be able to overhaul their process for assessing pesticides' risks under the Endangered ...
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Waste Tire Cryogenic Granulating Plant
This process is called “cryogenic” because whole tires or tire chips are cooled down to a temperature of below –80 C (-112 F). Below this “glass transition temperature”, rubber becomes nearly as brittle and glass and size reduction can be accomplished by shredding and breaking. This type of size reduction requires less energy and fewer pieces of machinery when ...
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Paving the Way to Quality
State Rubber & Environmental Solutions upgrades its processing equipment to produce recycled rubber that is suitable for rubberized asphalt. Quality counts, particularly in rubberized asphalt applications that use recycled rubber. The ability to provide a fine, high-quality terminal blend material opens the door to marketing to a range of highway engineers who require something better than ...
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Used drives found in africa with U.S. defense data
Last week media across Canada and the US, including major newspapers and PBS’s highly decorated Frontline news series, reported the findings of a team of University of British Columbia journalism students, who uncovered a hard drive containing sensitive U.S. defense information while filming a documentary in Ghana. According to the reports, the B.C. students, who were studying how electronic ...
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Screen classifying cutter allows recycling of tungsten heavy alloys
Aerojet Ordnance Tennessee, a wholly owned subsidiary of aerospace and defense contractor Aerojet General, fabricates parts from tungsten heavy alloys and other refractory metals for defense-related products like ammunition, warheads and electronic shielding. The company also produces components for sporting goods and other end-uses, though defense accounts for about 80% of its business. ...
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25 Years (R)Evolution!
Once upon a time… ... what 25 years ago in Thuringia began, has meanwhile developed to a brand name for strong performance and quality in the recycling sector. HAMMEL Recyclingtechnik GmbH started manufacturing the "Original" HAMMEL shredders in 1996 at the Bad Salzungen site and it has been constantly growing ever since. How did it all start and what is the success story of HAMMEL ...
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Wood Recycling Shredder for Sale
Wood is an extremely useful material that can be found practically everywhere, but it is not the longest lasting so when the time comes it needs to be properly recycled and processed. When that time does come around, you can trust the reliable strength of Shred-Tech®’s industrial shredding systems. From wooden furniture to logs and planks, our heavy-duty shredders can easily tear ...
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Lead cables - how to separate lead, iron and copper - Case Study
Recycling areas: CableVarious scrap Company name: Hals Metal A/S Located: Hals, Denmark with an sub office in Süder Lögum, Germany Founded: 1988 Employees: 13 Hals Metal A/S was founded in 1988. Today it is a modern recycling company which has strong, collaborative partners in the area of recycling, lead production, and trading in a large number of materials. The company is an ...
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Sorting Equipment Focus: Keeping Time
(From Recycling Today Magazine) In with the new, out with the old. A reversal of an old adage is perhaps the best way to describe the increased demand for America’s scrap metals. The world’s hunger for new cars, appliances and buildings was a boon for steel makers in 2004. Global steel production exceeded 1 billion tons last year, a record amount. And as the need for “new” steel products ...
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Products for Primary & Secondary Aluminum Protection
Before discussing aluminum protection, it is important to offer an explanation of what is meant by ‘primary’ and ‘secondary’ in the production, treatment, and application of the metal. The term ‘primary aluminum’ refers to the forging of the metal from raw alumina. Then, utilizing the Hall–Héroult electrolytic reduction process, the collaborative ...
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