Recycling Technology Innovations, News
If there is one part of the recycling process that is not only complicated, but also hard, it is the part of separating and sorting the recyclables. Effective recycling relies on effective and efficient sorting. Separating the different elements found in waste streams is crucial for enabling the recovery of useful materials, minimizing the amount of material sent to landfill and allowing recyclable materials to find a new purpose. There is a wide range of sorting and separating technologies on the market today. This Technology Zones offers an insight into the latest innovations in separation and sorting technology.
Plastic has become an indispensable feature of modern life, and has many redeeming qualities: it is flexible and strong, as well as light; it can be used in place of natural resources such as ivory or wood and is very good for keeping foods fresh, just to mention a few.
Read moreThe evolution of artificial intelligence these past years has been dazzling.
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According to a United Nations report, we generate 2.12 billion tonnes of waste every year, and while some of it is recycled, a lot ends up in landfill or is thrown into our oceans. These are alarming statistics, and the consequences for future generations may be irreversible.
Read moreSustainable living’ is currently the phrase on everyone’s lips as daily reports condemn the current strain put on our Earth’s natural resources.
Read moreThe new design of the high-gradient separator, recently introduced by Goudsmit Magnetics,
separates small pieces of both steel and stainless steel from shredded plastic, producing a clean plastic fraction.
STORK is celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2019 and adding state-of-the-art magnet and sensor-based processing technology for incineration bottom ash to its Leipzig site.
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Eric van Looy (Sense2Sort – Toratecnica)Being a technical engineer, Eric has spent more than 2 decades on the development of sensor based sorting technologies to advance recycling processes. Since 2006 he pursued automated spectroscopy technologies like XRF (at that time also together with Tom Jansen) and LIBS. Today, sorting has become possible to an unmet extend and with the second generation of Sense2Sort LIBS sorters, it has become possible to identify the elemental composition of each metal piece at high throughputs and up to 6 fractions with one machine. Sense2Sort-Toratecnica focuses on sustainable, reliable and responsible solutions for a max of eco-economical sorting sense. This also involves the design of advanced sorting plants and consultation work.
Tom Jansen (TOMRA Sorting GmbH)After studying Chemical Engineering at the Technical University of Eindhoven, the Netherlands, Tom started working as Sales Engineer at Innov-X Systems. He initially focused on selling handheld XRF equipment in the Benelux, while gradually extending the geographical territory over the years. From 2007 he was heavily involved in the pioneering of automated XRF sensor technology, bringing this new technology to the metal scrap market worldwide. Tom joined TOMRA Sorting (then Titech GmbH) in 2011 as Sales Manager responsible for the Metal Recycling market in the Netherlands and Belgium. Since then, in his role as Segment Champion for the ELV shredder segment, he has also supported the metal recycling market in the Middle East region, Italy, Greece and projects in several other countries.
Erik Kuenen (Goudsmit Magnetics Group)My name is Erik Kuenen. I am the international Sales Manager for Goudsmit Magnetic Recycling Systems. With over twenty years of experience in the waste and recycling branch, I am your specialist for magnetic and non-ferrous systems. From Waalre, the Netherlands, Goudsmit designs and manufactures magnetic systems for metal separation and metal recovery. Having 60 years’ experience within the industry, we maintain very high-quality standards. As reprocessing several waste flows becomes more and more refined, environmental demands get higher and higher. To keep up with the demand, our company continues to develop new types of magnetic systems that exceed customers' high standards. We invite you to come and test your materials in our test centre in Waalre. This enables you to determine which magnetic system is best for your application. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. By phone +31(0)612150238 or email: eku@goudsmit.eu. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erikkuenen/.More and more recyclers are considering mobile metals separation from their recycle materials. More and more depth is being sought in the recycling of these materials, which is why more and more metals, such as ferrous and non-ferrous metals, are being separated on location by mobile equipment.
Read moreEngineers at Covanta, one of the world’s largest owners and operators of facilities dedicated to recovering energy from waste, reported an immediate 50 percent improvement in recovery of ferrous materials from bottom ash after upgrading a conventional scrap drum to an Eriez® P-Rex® (Permanent Rare Earth Xtreme®) Scrap Drum at one of the company’s United States facilities.
Read moreGAIN, TOMRA’s deep learning-based sorting technology, for advanced accuracy of complex sorting tasks at high throughput rates.
Read moreThe European paper and carboard recycling industry is today facing a difficult challenge: while recycling rates in the region are stable at high levels, it does not have the capacity to absorb the oversupply of materials, which were exported to Asia.
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Sense2Sort develops sensor based sorting equipment based on XRF, LIBS, Induction, CCD and NIR technologies.
Strautmann Umwelttechnik GmbH produces Baling- and Briquetting presses for the compaction and waste disposal of recyclables like cardboard packaging, film, PET bottles, airpop® (EPS) and residual waste.
TOMRA Sorting Recycling offers sensor-based sorting technologies for mixed waste management industries (metal, plastics…)
Presona have been designing, supplying and maintaining prepress technology balers for more than 70 years.
Baling presses for every application, every material and designed according to every individual demand – this is the core competency of HSM‘s environmental experts.
