Bulk Handling Systems (BHS) products

The BHS Bag Breaker is a highly effective bag-opening technology that eliminates the need for manual bag openers. Several years of product development led to the innovation of this patented system. Bagged material is fed into the BHS Bag Breaker with an in-feed conveyor to achieve an evenly-metered flow rate. Large, counter-rotating drums effectively open the bags and release the contents, which are discharged from the bottom of the machine. The BHS Bag Breaker is designed to process the materials without damaging the commodities.

The BHS Bale Breakdown Unit (BBU) XD transforms bales of plastic into a singulated container stream for effective sorting. Bales are fed onto the integrated variable-speed conveyor and are processed through primary separation shafts, breaking the bales into singulated plastic containers. The material continues through the declumping rolls for final separation of any remaining clustered bottles. The BBU is designed to withstand demanding operating conditions, and its heavy duty, robust construction maximizes uptime over a long operating life. Primary separation shafts are individually driven for a high throughput in a compact design. The declumping rolls feature abrasion-resistant spiraled angles to increase operating life and maximize separation.

The BHS Debris Roll Screen is the industry’s flagship disc screen. This proven, patented technology is the premiere sizing tool for single stream, Municipal Solid Waste (MSW), Construction and Demolition (C&D) waste, wood waste, compost, green waste, plastics, glass, tires and other miscellaneous materials.

The BHS Glass Breaker separates glass from mixed recyclables with an effective and accurate disc screen. The Debris Roll Screen is at the heart of all glass screening and separating systems. This specialty screen is fitted with Glass Breaker accessories designed to break glass and remove it from the container stream utilizing BHS’ patented in-line metal Tri-Discs. The aggressive action of the rotating discs reduces the size of the glass and accurately screens it out of the product stream, without the loss of flattened aluminum or single-serve PET bottles.

The new BHS Metering Bin and Metering Bin Liberator Class provide numerous features that increase performance and decrease maintenance requirements. BHS has developed a strong platform to precisely regulate material flow through the combination of a variable speed conveyor and a counter-rotating drum at the discharge end, eliminating black-belt and keeping your system operating at peak levels. The new design’s hallmark is its modularity: the design allows a wide range of mix-and match features which can transform the Metering Bin to match your own operational demands. From base features such as extra thick walls to the steel belt and bag-ripping teeth of the Liberator Class, BHS offers a bin without equal in the market.

The BHS OCC Separator automatically separates old corrugated containers (OCC) from mixed recyclables. The uniquely designed and patented OCC Separator provides unmatched separation efficiencies. Our in-line, tri-shaped discs impart a bouncing, wavelike action on the material stream, liberating other types of fiber and contaminants from the OCC product. Smaller material falls through the Inter-Face Opening (IFO) between the discs, while the OCC travels up and over the screen deck creating a clean cardboard product.

The BHS Polishing Screen is the industry’s most effective separator of fiber and containers. This unique screen creates three material fractions: Mixed Fiber, Containers and Fines by using the 2-D and 3-D characteristics of these materials.  Paper is conveyed over the screening surface, while containers and other three-dimensional objects roll off the back of the screen and are consolidated for sorting. The fine materials, consisting of bottle caps, dirt, grit and small fiber, fall through the screening surface and are removed from the material stream in order to limit product contamination.  Our 3-sort unit provides an extremely clean container stream, resulting in improved recovery of valuable containers and virtually no loss of fiber to residue.

Recovers plastic containers by polymer type, in any combination, through the use of reflected near-infrared light. The SpydIR-R is an advanced infrared sorting system that separates selected polymers from a mixed container stream. It uses proprietary technology and fast, highly sensitive algorithms to rapidly identify unique polymer “signatures” from their infrared spectra. The SpydIR-R uses reflective detection, with the light source and detection array above the material.

The NRT ColorPlus optical sorter features an advanced image processing system designed to target and sort materials based on color analysis and sophisticated object recognition. Powerful high-speed processors and proprietary recognition algorithms analyze color, transparency, opacity, and object boundaries including opaque analysis and label recognition for precise object targeting. The ColorPlus has a high resolution detection of 50 million pixels-per-second. High resolution sorting combined with NRT’s In-Flight Sorting technology and proprietary software allow the ColorPlus to distinguish the correct bottle color when only 1% of the material is visible.

The NRT MetalDirector Flake uses advanced electromagnetic sensing technology to remove virtually all ferrous and non-ferrous from plastic flake commodities. This cost-effective stand-alone piece of equipment is available in 24", 48" and 60" models. Processing as much as 7,500 lbs of flake per hour, customers have reported as little as 0 pieces of metal per million pieces of PET flake. The high performance of the MetalDirector Flake will increase the value of your flake product and protects your downstream equipment.