K 2022

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Issue 05/2024

TOMRA supports Henkel to optimize packaging for ­recycling

Product manufacturers have a major role to play in the success of recycling. Both TOMRA and Henkel recognize this and are working together to test the consumer-goods producer’s packaging for...

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Issue 05/2024

ANDRITZ to supply fiberboard recycling line to Sonae Arauco in Portugal

International technology group ANDRITZ has received an order to supply a dry fiberboard recycling line to Sonae Arauco’s mill in Mangualde/Portugal. Start-up of the fiberboard recycling line is...

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Issue 05/2024 New light packaging sorting plant

STADLER enhances operations for VAERSA in Spain

STADLER Anlagenbau GmbH, the globally active German company specialising in the planning, production and assembly of turnkey recycling and sorting plants, has designed and built a state-of-the-art...

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Issue 05/2024 Enormous potential

Plastic recycling with optical sorting 

The potential of increasing the sorting of plastic waste is enormous with a yearly production of about 400 million tons of plastic waste worldwide and only 10 % of the plastic waste being recycled....

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Issue 05/2024 Avanced technology

Metal sorting at the scrap yard

Handling machines are indispensable in the recycling of ferrous and non-ferrous metals. This is no different at the scrap metal company Van den Brouck-De Sutter in Ninove. The company has invested in...

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Issue 05/2024 Efficient separation

Eriez® Shred1™ Ballistic Separator delivers rapid ROI for scrap metal processors

After more than a decade on the market, the Eriez® Shred1™ Ballistic Separator is continuing to revolutionize the recycling industry. By delivering premium, low-copper shred, the Shred1 enables scrap...

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Issue 05/2024 RDF for the cement industry

Service Waste triples alternative fuel production with UNTHA

Fort Worth-based Service Waste has halved its landfill costs, tripled throughputs, and boosted operator efficiency by 50 %, with the investment in a new UNTHA XR3000C stationary shredder.

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Issue 05/2024 State-of-the-art PET and plastics sorting plant in Switzerland

New pet sorting plant in Frauenfeld relies on artificial intelligence

PET and hollow plastic bottles have been sorted at Müller Recycling AG in Frauenfeld for over 30 years. The two sorting systems from 2004 and 2015 are currently being converted and supplemented with...

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Issue 05/2024 Improved purchasing strategy

Wood processor C2R opts for a horizontal crusher from Vecoplan

The French wood processing company C2R faced a big challenge: to make production as profitable as possible, the company processes products of inconsistent quality. The problem was that the machines...

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Issue 05/2024 Successful start for i-STEP

Optimizing the machine park digitally using PC, smartphone and tablet

This year‘s IFAT Munich provided the perfect stage for IFE Aufbereitungstechnik GmbH to introduce their new product line i-STEP. This innovative platform cleverly combines sensors with machine data...

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