News items September 2017

disposal solution for industry, trade and commerce HSM GmbH + Co. KG, the South German manufacturer of baling presses, PET solutions and document shredders provides economical solutions for professional waste disposers and industrial applications. The baling presses of the manufacturer from Lake Constance are always specialists when it comes to compressing waste materials by up to 95 % and pressing them into unmixed and optimally transportable bales. With the technical equipment, the operating concept and the design for bulky cartons, the HSM HL 4812 horizontal baling press is the ideal machine for retail and smaller central warehouses. With an extremely high pressing force of 480 kN, the HSM HL 4812 is suitable for cardboard packaging as well as the pressing of film. Depending on the material, the highly compressed bales reach a weight of up to 420 kg, have a bale mass of 1100 x 750 x 1200 mm and are held together by a fully automatic, 4-fold wire strapping. The optimal bale sizes and bale weights guarantee efficient

GKM Siebtechnik expands its business Due to the constant growing demand GKM Siebtechnik started the new subsidiary in Poland. The new company GKM Siebtechnik Poland Sp. z.o.o. is a 100% subsidiary of GKM Siebtechnik located in Wierzbica, Poland. The company’s services with German know-how at a glance: • Remeshing service for screen inserts of all brands • Spare parts from stock for all Tumbler screening machines • Service and Maintenance tecnicians Our new local company will provide our customers and partners in the eastern european countries like Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic and Hungarywith even better support and quick and flexible service.

Particle measurement solutions + appearance in special area ’Focus Pharmaceutical Solids’ POWTECH is the leading trade fair for processing, analysis as well as handling of powder and bulk solids and opens its doors for everyone interested in innovative products and services once again from September 26th to 28th at the Exhibition Centre Nuremberg, Germany. Microtrac as a leading company in particle measurement will attend the POWTECH once more and exhibit high-end products as well as first-grade technology and moreover highlight the many possibilities and advantages our solutions come with. Our line-up for this year: • Patented Tri-Laser combined with Dynamic Image Analysis: Bluewave & PartAn SI • Enhanced DLS size & zeta: Nanotrac Wave II & Nanotrac Flex • Particle size and shape in three dimensions: PartAn 3D • Online particle size and shape measurement for any process loop: PartAn 3D PRO • Ideal for measuring dust: DustMon L In addition to that we are going to participate in the special area ’Focus Pharmaceutical Solids’, during

New generation of the proven FLAKE PURIFIER multi-sensor sorting system At the Drinktec 2017 trade fair that will be held in Munich from 11 to 15 September 2017, Sesotec GmbH in hall A4, stand 306, for the first time presents itself as a supplier of complete sorting stations for PET flake recycling. Target customers are recycling companies that are looking for a profitable solution for PET flake recycling and wish to have all the components - from air separator through to sorting machine - from one source. The revised FLAKE PURIFIER+ multi-sensor sorting system will be the trade fair highlight. Sesotec has more than 20 years of experience in the development and production of sorting machines for PET flake recycling, and based on many corresponding inquiries from customers Sesotec now also offers complete PET flake sorting stations. A complete PET flake sorting line from Sesotec offers many advantages, for example less interfaces and contact persons, and uniform operation of all the line components. Mechanical sorting is perfectly matched

In 1974 Jan Janssen started a transport and contractor business (J.A.M. Janssen) in the garden of his Gennep home. Initially on his own, but gradually building the business up, until it didn’t fit in his back garden anymore. This then forced him to leave the neighbourhood and relocate to nearby Heijen. Since then there have been a couple of business moves but AVG Heijen still remains. The trade in sand and gravel brought AVG in contact with German concrete mixing plants and slowly but surely a plan was developed to build their own mixing plant. This reached fruition in 1985, thanks to much building work in Noord-Limburg, and the fact that AVG had taken over its own sand and gravel exploitation. Since 1989 there has been a permanent stone crusher in Heijen. This is used to work not only production waste from the concrete plant, but also building and demolition rubble. A second concrete mixing plant was built in Duisburg-Rheinhausen in 1999. Meanwhile the crushing