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Product Spotlight – The ExtractPack Vertical Baler

The Perfect Solution for An Industry Niche Bottling facilities, retail centers, and distributors all face the challenge of what to do with out-of-date product. This becomes particularly difficult when that product is in liquid form and the containers are made of plastic or metal. The conventional method of manually draining liquid from bottles or cans is very time ...

Oct. 18, 2017

By Harmony Enterprises, Inc.

Using Anaerobic Biomass Digestion to Produce Hydrogen and Biofuel

For many years, hydrogen has been considered as an alternative to fossil fuels. Now, Scientists are aiming to develop an environmentally friendly method to produce hydrogen from biomass by optimizing anaerobic digestion systems.1 Climate change, dwindling fuel resources and energy prices have spearheaded intensive efforts to detect and optimize ...

Oct. 13, 2017

By Edinburgh Instruments Ltd

Ten Questions to Answer Before Buying a Baler

How Do You Know When You Need a Baler? Business owners and facilities managers can easily tell when it is time to purchase a baler. Commodities like cardboard, aluminum, paper, textiles, plastics, and non-ferrous metals can accumulate and create unsafe work environments. It is expensive to pay waste haulers to take these items away with the rest of the trash. It is also ...

Oct. 3, 2017

By Harmony Enterprises, Inc.

Who Needs Continuous Emissions Monitoring?

Continuous emissions monitoring (CEM) is about monitoring air pollutants generated by a specific activity and emitted to the ambient air, typically through a tall stack or other exhaust pipe. The “activity” can be some industrial process like a power plant or a waste incinerator, but it can also be on a much smaller scale such as a car equipped with an internal-combustion engine. ...

Oct. 19, 2017

By Opsis AB

Minsur - Tin giant gets boost from TOMRA ore sorting technology - Case Study

A plant for treating mined waste and low grade material at the world’s largest underground tin mine has repaid its capital cost of US$24 million in just four months, thanks in part to the role of a TOMRA X-ray transmission (XRT)-based ore sorting machine. The plant went into operation in 2016 and is projected to contribute 6,000 tonnes of refined tin to the ...

Sep. 28, 2017

By TOMRA Sorting GmbH.

Delivering the Promise of Continued Customer Success

Since TOMRA was founded in 1972, we have continuously redefined what it means to be innovative in the sectors in which we operate. Through our ongoing commitment to providing the world’s most advanced sensor-based sorting systems, we deliver TOMRA’s brand promise of “trusted technology and partnership for better business and environment.” ...

Oct. 16, 2017

By TOMRA Sorting GmbH.

Wood waste product

A landfill needed a way to reduce their waste stream volume, increase the life of their landfill, and recover a recyclable, marketable product. Wood and yard waste material comprise up to 20% of their entire waste stream volume. Processing and recycling this material will extend the life of the landfill by 20 years. They chose WSM's Model 4864BH Horizontal Hogging System with a customized feed ...

Jul. 25, 2011

By West Salem Machinery Co.(WSM)

Making commercial product from waste

County Tyrone-based CDE Ireland Ltd, specialists in the design and manufacture of tailor-made processing equipment for the sand and aggregates industries, have recently installed a complete new processing system for Liam Lynch (Quarries) Ltd’s limestone quarry in Croom, Co. Limerick.The system includes Ireland’s first overhead-beam GHT filter press, which recycles the maximum amount ...

Jul. 10, 2010

By CDEnviro

Valuable Products From Tannery Wastes

Abstract We proved the viability of enzymatic dechromation technology, proceeding under mild reaction conditions, by the daily capacity of 3 metric tons for processing chrome shavings. The advantage of the enzymatic reaction is producing protein hydrolyzates of relatively good quality and chrome sludge. The quality of both is increased by using organic bases to form an alkaline reaction mixture. ...

Jun. 1, 2000

Well suited for dust and waste products from airlaid production

Less dust, easier handling and reduced transport costs. The RUNI Screw Compactor represents a great advance in airlaid production waste management. Dan-Web in Aarhus produces machinery and equipment for the manufacture of airlaid products such as nappies, sanitary towels, bed sheets and meat pads – primarily as turn-key production systems. The company has its own pilot system for client ...

May 4, 2011

By Runi A/S

Taking advantage of production waste - Case Study

Recycling areas: Various scrap Company name: KME (Serravalle Copper Tubes) Located: Serravalle Scrivia (Alessandria), Italy Founded: 1886 Employees: 5700 KME is a leading global fabricator of copper and copper alloy semi-finished products. Each year 405.000 tons of copper and copper alloy semi-finished products (excluding copper wire) are produced. ...

Sep. 20, 2017

By Eldan Recycling A/S

Waste handling systems for hygiene product manufacturers

Valvan Baling systems is the preferred supplier for waste handling systems at several renowned hygiene product manufacturing companies. One of the largest producers of hygiene products, such as diapers and feminine care, has built a new state-of-the-art plant. All the trim waste from the production lines is handled through a waste handling system, built and installed by Valvan Baling ...

May 31, 2017

By Valvan Baling Systems NV

Food manufacturers: Include waste in final cost of product

Over the past year, the momentum of food waste reduction has become a forefront concern on a global, national and industry level. In the United States, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) launched the U.S. Food Waste Challenge “to lead a fundamental shift in how we think about and manage food and food waste in this country.” ...

Apr. 17, 2014

By Normandy Waste Management Systems

Automotive Shredder Residue (ASR) - From Waste to Products

The paper will explain WESA-SLF, a dry-mechanical process to treat ASR with the aim to achieve usable products, mainly organic materials, metals, and minerals. Detail information will be given about the first plant for processing 4 tons per hour ASR which had its start up end of 1999. The experience with the first months in operation as well as with the quality of the products and the influence ...

Jan. 1, 2000

By LSD Gefahrstofflagertechnik GmbH

Composite construction products from waste tyres

The construction industry consumes approximately 420 million tonnes of products per year, and therefore utilises large quantities of raw materials. Alternatives to primary materials in construction products are already widely used; examples include the use of construction and demolition wastes as aggregates, timber wastes in composite board products and by-products from steel-making in the ...

Mar. 1, 2007

By WRAP (the Waste & Resources Action Programme)

Bio hydrogen production from kitchen waste

The hydrogen producing organisms such as Escherichia coli (E.Coli), Enterobacter cloacae, Hafnia alvei, Citrobacter freundii, Serratia marcescens and Clostridium acetobutylicum strains were isolated from the sludge of biogas plant. The hydrogen producing efficiency of isolated organisms from kitchen waste were examined under anaerobic conditions. Lab scale studies were conducted under controlled ...

Feb. 4, 2008

By Inderscience Publishers

Turn Waste Materials Into Useful Products With Briquetting Machines

In today’s world, any approach that aims towards reducing pollution through renewable energy must be appreciated. The use of Briquetting machines is such an approach. The fate of fossil fuel is well known, and their resources are fast getting depleted from all corners of the world. Thus, ways to exploit alternative energy resources that are renewable and lessen our dependence on fossil ...

Mar. 1, 2016

By Jay Khodiyar Machine Tools

Zero Waste - Zero Waste - Zero Waste

The Planning Group of the Zero waste International Alliance defines zero waste as: “Zero waste is a goal that is ethical, economical, efficient and visionary, to guide people in changing their lifestyles and practices to emulate sustainable natural cycles, where all discarded materials are designed to become resources for other use.” I recently posted this question on ...

Jul. 26, 2012

By ABCOV Companies , LLC

Compost production from Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) employing bioinoculants

The effect of antibiotic producer fungi (Penicillium chrysogenum, P. funiculosum) and free living nitrogen fixing bacteria (Azotobacter chroococcum) on the quality of vermicompost prepared from MSW was observed in the present study. Prior to vermicomposting of MSW the interaction studies among bioinoculants and E. fetida, in Farm Yard Manure (FYM), was also carried out to see the effect of ...

Dec. 9, 2008

By Inderscience Publishers

Reverse logistics in effective recovery of products from waste materials

Technical solutions for the recovery of products from waste materials become more and more available. To have these new technologies implemented in a real world, a feasibility study is indispensable. For this purpose, it is often imperative to adopt the viewpoint of an individual firm and ask whether it would be wise to engage in product recovery activities or not. Aspects of economics and ...

May 1, 2005

By Springer

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