TECHNOLOGY | POST INDUSTRIAL RECYCLING
Sirmax extends US production and recycling operations
Sirmax, an Italy-based producer of polypropylene compounds, engineering polymers, post-consumer compounds and bio-com- pounds, including formulations with recycled content, announced further expansion developments in US following its 2021 declara- tion to invest $30m in a greenfield facility there to recycle PP from post-industrial waste. SER North America, the group’s 13th
plant, located in Anderson,
Indiana, is next to the company’s Sirmax North American plant, which produces compounds based on polyolefins, ETPs, TPEs and bio-based materials. That facility has a capacity of 100m lbs. SER North America has a capacity of 33m lbs. The Anderson site will be upgraded and expanded by 2025.
The first (Sirmax) plant will house TPE production and a new warehouse, increasing the total production area from 13,000 m2 26,000 m2
. Sirmax will also build a 12,000 m2 third plant at the to . The company’s ten-year development plan at the site
also involves enhancing recycled compound production, expand- ing the production area at SER North America from 11,000 m2 27,000 m2
to
Anderson site to produce engineering plastics, says Lorenzo Ferro, Country Manager of Sirmax North America.
ing on waste type. For industrial waste, the P250 E-Drive can process up to 35 tonnes/hr. It handles up to 110 t/hr of household waste. The unit incorporates an open cutting table
design, a heavy-duty knife assembly and incorpo- rates a bi-directional shredding system configuration that increases safety and reduces the risk of malfunc- tions that may hinder operations. All knives and parts exposed to wear are made from wear-resistant steel for long-lasting performance, with bolts and bear- ings mounted away from the cutting chamber. The unit’s two-shaft shredder design rotates at speeds up to 59 rpm. The shafts can be fitted with 6 to 12 knives with grain sizes that vary from less than 5 inches to 18 inches depending on the number of knives used. Users can select from seven knife shapes. The pre-shredder is equipped with an intelligent
control unit that automatically adjusts shredding routines to suit the processed material. The control has six standard programmes and two customis- able programmes, allowing for tailored shredding routines, for maximised performance. US granulator and shredder designer and manufacturer Cumberland, a division of the ACS group, created a custom-designed shredding-
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demagnetising-granulating and blowing solution for Save That Stuff (STS), a Boston-based recycling and waste services firm that required an upgrade of its older equipment to keep up with demand for a plastics clothes hanger recycling application. STS sources large volumes of used PP hangers from a major US retailer and recycles them into high-quali- ty regrind which it then sells to the open market. The team at Cumberland worked with STS to
create a turnkey solution that could successfully process the larger volumes of plastic hangers and produce higher quality PP and HDPE regrind as well. When designing the new system, Cumberland says it had the advantage that it could supply a complete, turnkey solution from a single source. “We often partner with Vecoplan to sell their shredding equipment along with our granulators,” said Joe Platek, Business Development Manager at Cumber- land, adding that this relationship is leveraged to provide a total package solution to customers. The turnkey system Cumberland designed for
STS consists of a heavy-duty single-shaft shredder from Vecoplan, a Cumberland granulator, a magnetic system, and an elutriation system from Sterling Blower. The clothes hangers are fed into the shredder for initial size reduction. That output is transported by conveyor to the Cumberland granulator where it is ground to pellet size. A magnetic system located on the conveyor between the shredder and granulator removes all metal from the plastic stream, ensuring that the material entering the granulator is free of metal contami- nants, which results in a higher quality regrind. The granulated material is evacuated by the blower system while the elutriator separates fines from the quality, clean regrind while providing a collection point for both material streams. The turnkey system is designed for throughput up to 2,000 lb/hr. STS reports that the specialised turnkey system not only handles the increased volume of clothes hangers but can also be used for a wide variety of other plastics recycling applications. STS is looking to take on additional plastics recycling jobs now that the Cumberland system is in place. “We think crate-grade HDPE is a good potential market for us,” says Brad Cole, Sales Manager at STS.
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