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.
SILVER SPRING, MD – The Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA) announced that Penn Waste has been named the winner of the SWANA Silver Excellence Award in the Recycling Systems category. The award will be presented at SWANA’s annual conference, WASTECON®, on Wednesday, August 22, 2018, at the Gaylord Opryland in Nashville, Tennessee.
Read moreAPPINGEDAM – Bin2Barrel has selected Bollegraaf Recycling Solutions to provide them with an automated sorting system to process end-of-life plastics to ready feedstock for their pyrolysis systems in the Amsterdam harbor.
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Most preshredded or prescreened bulk goods contain many ferrous and non-ferrous metals, such as aluminium, copper, zinc, brass and bronze.
Read moreHELSINKI – ZenRobotics is thrilled to announce its latest addition to the line of intelligent waste sorting robots: ZenRobotics Fast Picker for light material. The new robot model is a result of our decade-long experience in waste robotics and couples the most intelligent software with high-speed picking.
Read moreAMSTERDAM – Nihot has announced the launch of the SDX windshifter, specially designed for RDF/SRF installations as the ultimate separation solution for realizing premium protection of the secondary shredders at the lowest cost per ton.
Read moreWAALRE – Goudsmit recently collaborated with TRS – Tuip Recycling Solutions BV of Akersloot, The Netherlands – to supply a very special mobile eddy current separator to a service provider for an aluminium smelter in Norway. This is the very first hydraulically driven, mobile non-ferrous separator ever built. It is used to process aluminium slags and refines the aluminium from these slags. This makes it possible to reuse the high-quality aluminium as a new raw material.
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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.
Eugene van den Boomen (Goudsmit Magnetics Group)Eugène van den Boomen has over 20 years of experience in all technical aspects of Magnetic Recycling Equipment. He is closely involved with the development of Eddy-Current separators, inductive sensor- & high-gradient separators, overband separators, magnetic head pulleys and drum separators for recycling and recovery applications.
These systems are installed in the Goudsmit Test Centre where companies can test bulk samples of various materials. This simplifies the final choice of a specific separation system and guarantees customers an optimal separation result.New brand application, made possible by higher light intensity, will be a welcome breakthrough at a time when demand for plastic bottles and trays is growing internationally.
Read morePERTUIS – Pellenc ST is a leading manufacturer of optical sorting equipment. The latest version of a films-sorting machine, Mistral+ Film Top Speed addresses one of the key requirements of LDPE recyclers – higher capacities.
Read moreERIE, PA – According to Eriez®, an escalating demand for the company’s innovative Ultra-High Frequency (UHF) Eddy Current Separators correlates with an increasing number of prospective customers who are taking advantage of Eriez’ sample testing capabilities.
Read moreThe operators of sorting systems are experiencing challenging times. For one thing, the German government has made the packaging and commercial waste regulations more stringent, thus requiring operators to achieve higher recycling rates from 2019. At the same time, China is closing its door to the import of contaminated recoverables. The STEINERT Group, a specialist for magnetic and sensor sorting technology, is ready to meet its customers’ requirements. To this end, STEINERT will present pioneering sorting solutions at IFAT 2018, the World’s Leading Trade Fair for Water, Sewage, Waste and Raw Materials Management that will be held in Munich from 14 to 18 May.
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Sense2Sort develops sensor based sorting equipment based on XRF, LIBS, Induction, CCD and NIR technologies.
TOMRA Sorting Recycling offers sensor-based sorting technologies for mixed waste management industries (metal, plastics…)
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