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Axion Group Articles
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Axion Polymers: women should consider careers in recycling
Women are involved in every level of the materials recycling industry and this is certainly the case at Axion Polymers where they hold key roles in a number of areas from management and finance to process engineering and laboratory research. ...
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Axion Polymers: Brexit could drive UK circular economy
Brexit offers fresh opportunities for the UK and its manufacturers to secure their raw material supplies, such as recycled plastics, from a stable domestic market and stimulate a circular flow of materials, according to Axion Polymers. The North ...
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Axion: is ‘storing’ waste plastics better than burning?
As global temperatures head for potentially catastrophic levels, landfilling rather than burning waste plastics might be better for the environment, suggests Keith Freegard, Director of Axion Polymers. Landfill or incineration: what is the best ...
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Complete supply chain approach is essential for success
Richard McKinlay, Senior Engineer at resource recovery specialist Axion Consulting suggests the recycling industry and infrastructure needs to move to a complete supply chain approach if it is to thrive and succeed. The recent failures of several ...
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Plastics recycling industry ‘Wish List’ for a rapid transition to a Circular Economy
The producers of automobiles and electronics across Europe have been given the responsibility for the end-of-life capture, collection and recycling or recovery of the products that they put on the market. Under this Extended Producer Responsibility ...
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Can today’s unrecyclables become tomorrow’s resources?
Labelling some plastic waste products as ‘unrecyclable’ and consigning them to landfill or energy-from-waste plants risks losing the opportunities to recover these raw materials in the future, warns a leading UK-based plastics recycler. ...
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Axion waste processing plant training case study 4 – New operators on an established plastics recycling plant
Training a team of new operators on an established waste polymer processing plant following extensive modifications to the process. Challenge: Not all of the new machinery had been installed. The separation and refining equipment used complex ...
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Axion waste processing plant training case study 3 – Operators team at automotive shredder residue recycling plant
Challenge: The recovery process was a unique and complex automotive shredder residue recovery plant. There was a wide range of expertise within the trainee group. Some trainees had worked within the industry for over 10 years, whilst others had ...
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Axion waste processing plant training case study 2 – Operators team at mbt plant
Challenge: The recovery system was a unique and complex MBT and AD plant. Individual equipment suppliers were not able to provide training in the combined waste recovery system as an overall integrated process. Machinery was not yet operational ...
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Axion waste processing plant training case study 1 – Management team at MBT plant
The full recovery system was a unique and complex MBT and AD plant. Individual equipment suppliers were not able to provide training in the combined waste recovery system as an overall integrated process. Machinery was not yet operational so ...
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Setting up a UK-wide collection scheme for post-use vinyl flooring case study
Challenge: Manufacturers developed technology to recycle vinyl flooring material but needed a sustainable and cost effective recycling scheme to collect small volumes of material from a large geographical area High purity waste stream required ...
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Identification of near infrared (NIR) optical sorting good practice in the UK and mainland Europe case study
Challenge: Previous studies have shown that standards of quality and yield achieved by NIR optical sorting facilities, such as Materials Recovery Facilities (MRFs), vary enormously across Europe To study and share examples of good practice in ...
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Re-location and re-design of non-ferrous separation plant case study
Challenge: Old plant using eddy current separators for non-ferrous waste. System was underperforming and needed to be moved. Axion Solution: Axion redesigned new plant layout using existing ECS units and adding one reconditioned unit. ...
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Plant re-design, procurement and installation of novel machinery case study
Challenge: Granulator equipment underperforming. Low throughput and poor particle size control. Axion Solution: Axion redesigned plant layout to incorporate novel screening machinery and oversize material recycling loop. Specified, ...
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Recycling plant for automotive sound proofing case study
Challenge: Increased demand from customers for a recycling solution to handle off-cuts from processing of Niko products. Existing plant not effective at separating granulated foam/sheet particles. Niko Coatings unable to offer satisfactory ...
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Trial, procurement and installation of non-ferrous metal sorting system case study
Challenge: Client wanted to open up new markets for non-ferrous metals by improving purity of final product. Axion Solution: Axion selected and tested three alternative separation systems. Developed flowsheet and mass-balance from above trial ...
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MRF ʻhealth checkʼ service at Scottish Local Authority recycling MRF for co- mingled household kerbside collections case study
Challenge: To identify opportunities to increase profits within the MRF operation. Axion Solution: Axion Consulting and 360 Environmental carried out site visits to MRF operations at Greenock and Alexandria over a two day period. ...
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Compositional analysis of baled output material case study
Challenge: Client designing a new sophisticated sorting plant utilising automated NIR sorting technology in order to increase separation and throughput. Compositional analysis required on infeed material and bulk density calculations of each ...
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It’s a ‘no’ to Pay-as-you-throw
Axion Director Keith Freegard, recently spoke to Local Authority Waste and Recycling arguing against a Pay-as you-Throw scheme suggesting an element of ‘punishment’ could be counter-productive in increasing recycling rates. In my view, ...
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UK`s first vinyl flooring recycling scheme - Recofloor - wins top CIWM Award for Innovative Practice
Recofloor’s unique, innovative and sustainable approach to the collection and recycling of waste vinyl flooring triumphed at the 2010 Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM) Awards for Environmental Excellence. The UK’s first ...