Enhancing Your Equipment – A Practical Guide to Increasing Your Performance!
Simon Ingleby, of Recycling Plant Designer Alfatek UK and T
echnology Provider Redox
of The Netherlands, describes how private Waste Management Companies have to ‘up their game’ to maximise their business.
The private sector of waste management companies who have traditionally handled and processed construction, demolition (C&D) and skip waste are now having to enter new markets to grow their businesses.
Commercial and trade wastes offer valuable recyclates but are difficult to separate with typical types of sorting lines. It is also possible to attract in residues from simple transfer stations and divert from landfill thus giving gate fee income, however, to be able to handle these types of wastes, existing plants require subtle modification. Investment into existing facilities has to balance with the available waste stream income but with the right concept and proven technology it is possible to attract new customers, especially corporate, with recycling rates that can boost their environmental policies and statements. Redox Recycling Technology of the Netherlands have been successful in building turnkey new facilities over the last 10 years but are now adding to their portfolio by extending their ‘know how’ to enhance existing sorting lines of all shapes and sizes. Each project is different but still requires stringent commitment to identifying and procuring the equipment, increasing throughput, project and installation management. The waste does not stop coming in and modifications must be phased and carried out efficiently to ensure that the plant is not down for long.
Such a project is ongoing at the time of writing. Transwaste of East Yorkshire, run by brothers Mark and Paul Hornshaw, had a particular problem. The sorting line they had originally invested in from Ireland proved a nightmare with mechanical failures giving more down than up time, constant blockages of waste in the equipment and no back-up due to the manufacturer going bankrupt. The plant also offered no flexibility to adapt to changing waste streams.
Redox have been making radical changes primarily through the incorporation of a key machine, namely the Windshifter, into the process. These machines instantly change the dynamics of the line by automatically separating the light from heavy and enables efficient separation further down the line to achieve clean recyclates such as hard plastics, cardboard, ferrous and non-ferrous metals, aggregates, paper and wood. Separation and cleaning of the fine fractions has been
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boosted by the installation of a stretch-deck screen and windshifter.
The modifications give not only full plant availability for two shifts but can also switch between C&D and C&I waste streams.
The plant has proved so successful with this improved productivity that it has enabled the company to further invest in a second line for the refinement of residues using high tech optical detection equipment, windshifters and shredders. Waste streams that were bound for landfill can now be processed through this plant. Transwaste can now concentrate on further future developments, confident that the original plant is now efficient and ‘future proof’.
Companies in the private sector, have to gear-up, like Transwaste, for expanding their facilities for different waste streams and, when planned properly with a technical partner who has the necessary know-how and equipment, can look forward to the future with confidence.
Redox of the Netherlands have shown that with commitment to technology and an understanding of the changing market can make for confidence in the recycling business during these difficult days that we all face.
CASE STUDY
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