News items March 2017

For a quick and easy exchange of the screen inserts GKM Siebtechnik offers a new generation of pneumatic lifting devices. This new and easy system has already been successfully used by well-known customers on the market. Your main benefits include… • Ideal for vibrating screening machines • Very fast exchange of the screen inserts possible • Easy and fast control and cleaning of the screening machine • The pneumatic cylinders are mounted above the machine • Can be retrofitted at any time without great effort • Very competitively priced Please contact us for further Information: info@gkm-net.de!

New Marketing Manager for DACH and EMEA We hereby announce Florent Elezi as our new Marketing Manager for DACH and EMEA at Microtrac! His career path includes an apprenticeship as a Design Assistant, communication design studies and experience in the field of marketing and journalism / PR, with which he’ll actively support the team starting from February 15 2017.

Specific knowledge from A to Z What is an eccentric? How works a Banana Screen? And what means warp? Get more information in our glossary about the topic sifting and screening now: http://bit.ly/2h99nOC

Now Also in Honduras The recycling company INVEMA (www.invemagroup.com) commissioned a plant for the recycling of PET bottles in Honduras at the end of 2016 in order to produce bottle-to-bottle quality with FDA approval. In the first expansion stage the plant is processing 2000 t/month. Fig. 1) In Honduras the collection rate of PET bottles amounts to 84 %. 2000 t PET bottles per month are treated with the plant technology from Herbold Meckesheim. In a multi-stage process, the bottles are pre-sorted, size-reduced, washed cold and hot and after drying forwarded to a flake sorting step.The German machine manufacturer HERBOLD MECKESHEIM (www.Herbold.com) produced, installed and commissioned the plant. Fig. 2) After sorting, the PET bottles are size reduced in two Herbold granulators with a capacity of 1800 kg/h each. After regranulation the end product is sold to the local Coca Cola bottle producer. A second expansion step is in preparation. Its aim is to produce

. Hundreds of visitors from more than 44 countries, 19 machines on display and two at work in the test area, and more than 500 square metres of exhibition space: these are the figures which characterised the presence of MB Crusher at the recent Samoter trade fair in Verona (22 - 25 February 2017). Thousands of clients visited the exhibition areas set up by the Vicenza-based company: an indoor stand completely renovated in terms of concept and layout, subdivided by theme, which presented the entire product range (crusher buckets, screening buckets and grapples which can be applied to all types of heavy machinery), and an external demonstration area right in front of the San Zeno entrance, where it was possible to witness the versatility of MB products first-hand, capable of crushing and screening all types of material and guaranteeing companies efficiency, productivity and savings, as well as protection of the environment. There were two products at work in MB Crusher’s