Recresco solves aluminium problem

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• 22nd September 2008
• Recycling
 

 

Keen to respond to customer requirements within its glass cullet recycling, materials recycling company Recresco needed to provide cleaner glass without aluminium contamination at its Southampton sortation plant.

After discussions at the beginning of 2008 regarding the technical specification of the MasterMag ECS unit, Recresco ordered the largest Eddy Current Separators (ECS) unit in Master Magnets' current range together with the spreader feeder, to handle 25 tph of glass cullet. Following delivery of the unit in April Recresco found that not only was it easily coping with the throughput but the adjustability of the unit also enabled the Recresco engineers to tailor the separation to meet exactly its high standards of segregation.

Recresco requested a quotation for installing ECS units at its three other current UK recycling centres. 

With updates to its Ellesmere Port site being undertaken Recresco was keen to install the best system to remove the residual aluminium. An order had been placed for an ‘all-metal detector' from the US, however after monitoring the Southampton site Recresco found that the large investment for the system was not going to be as cost effective as spending the money on the three ECS units.

By the beginning of May Recresco cancelled the US order and placed the order with Master Magnets for the three extra systems. The Ellesmere Port contract is on a rush order and, together with the other units, is currently in design and manufacture at Master Magnets. Each unit is being tailored to meet the requirements for the individual plants.  

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