News items April 2017

Europe’s largest logistics provider, Euro Pool System, in Hungary with new recycling hall In neatly lined-up wire cage carts, cardboard, PET bottles and cans from 175 branches of a supermarket chain in Hungary wait to be compressed into bales. The used packaging is carried via chain conveyors into two parallel channel baling presses and it’s there they are tightly compacted. Two shifts a day, six days a week. Everyone’s talking about the branch of the largest logistics provider in the field of reusable packaging being in Budapest: Euro Pool System. This branch alone processes around 22,000 tons of materials every year. This equals more than 4 tons per hour. Figures such as this require a fast and effective method of operation. Euro Pool has decided to build a new hall which will accommodate the recycling of materials from the food industry. Two fully automatic channel baling presses from HSM will enable the volume of packaging to be drastically reduced and returned to the recycling loop in the form of bales of material. Euro Pool will collect materials

Recycling of mineral materials proves to be economic and ecological. At the company MINERALplus from Gladbeck mineral dusty waste like ashes and reaction products from flue gas cleaning are processed to building materials. The recycled materials come back to the economic cycle and are used for road construction, cavity filling, underground or landfill construction. By using these materials large quantities of natural building materials like cement, lime or gypsum can be saved. Significant costs can be reduced. In short: recycling of mineral materials proves to be economic and ecological. But dusts that are partial toxic or breathing is hazardous to health, result from processing and handling the recycling materials. In order to protect health of employees, the company decided to award the order for a central filter unit of type InfaJet AJN to Infastaub. The pocket filter reduces the clean gas dust content below 1 mg/m³. A further order of a 2-stage filter was also awarded to Infastaub. The police filter is downstream the new pocket