News items September 2018

in the Plastics Industry Sesotec uses OPC UA Standard for increased productivity and profitability At the Fakuma 2018 trade fair in Friedrichshafen from 16 to 20 October, Sesotec GmbH in hall B1, stand 1302, especially for the target groups of injection moulding companies and system integrators focuses on metal separators that can be networked in the production environment. The OPC UA (Open Platform Communications Unified Architecture) machine communication standard contributes to the optimisation of processes in the plastics industry, from production through to service, and to the minimisation of time and product losses, and it thus guarantees highest quality and maximum value creation. What is OPC UA? Industrial communication through OPC UA provides the required network mechanisms for data exchange between machine components. In the production process this ensures communication that guarantees a smooth production flow and initiates countermeasures in case of errors. Efficient industrial

Proper waste management: cleaning the Oliva beach in Valencia. Every year between 8 and 12 million tons of waste sweep out to sea, especially plastic. Practically a full truck of garbage per minute. The rubbish in the sea, travels a long way and then washes up on coastlines. Over time it does not biodegrade harming wildlife and ecosystems. Ocean’s plastic pollution is one of the most felt environmental issue at present. But not only these types of litter piles in the coastal areas. Every year the sea and the rivers deposit driftwood and tidewrack along the shore, which have to be removed before summer to make room for the umbrellas, deck-chairs and bathers. For the holiday-makers safety and happiness. Proper waste management: cleaning the Oliva beach in Valencia. Oliva is a small town in the south of Valencia, Spain, and includes almost 9 km of beaches formed of fine sand. Not only that, part of the territory of Oliva is included in the marvelous natural park of the Marjal de Pego-Oliva. An ideal leisurely area, as

Effective solutions are constantly searched for in Construction & Demolition Waste (CDW) processing, but what if those solutions were right before our eyes? Often it is just a matter of changing perspective, and not only the obvious fact that CDW is not really waste, but the realization that it is actually a huge resource, still to be exploited. The way waste is processed needs a new outlook. Luckily often the answer is available, and the lesson learned is that strength comes from unity. In the world more and more people share their experiences to help others to achieve a better result, same applies even to CDW processing. After all, the environment we share will benefit from a streamline recycling process, landfill is not the solution. The process of recycling is pretty straight forward, firstly, fine material is separated. Subsequently there needs to be a volumetric reduction, a separation from any metals and the final removal of the light fraction. However,

Processing crops with NOLL’s DemiNo®. Corn, sunflowers, rapeseed and sesame. Pea fibers, turnip shred and rice husk… Our impact whirl mill is always hungry and gets the best out of every vegetable material! From the first test series at our NOLL technical lab and the development of special procedures, up to industrial production on custom-designed processing systems: NOLL is the place to turn to when it comes to optimizing vegetable materials in the fine particle range. We help develop tomorrow’s products and product characteristics. Whether your objective is to process plants as food or feed – or for use in completely different fields, where plant stuffs or cellulose are increasingly needed today. Our exclusive impact whirl mill gets the best out of every plant fiber. The processing of vegetable materials is just one example of DemiNo®’s excellence and special skills. Specially for processing foodstuffs, we have developed an innovative rotor made of solid stainless steel in exclusive,

Microtrac’s German location is expanding Microtrac GmbH is relocating to a new building. After three successful years on the Campus Fichtenhain in the Krefeld industrial park we’re moving into new and bigger premises, located in Krefeld Fischeln. Beginning with October 1st, 2018 you can find us at the following address: Kimplerstraße 288 D-47807 Krefeld Germany We are looking forward to welcoming you to our new office and to many more years of collaboration! Sincerely, Your Microtrac team

E-drive and intelligent energy management – an innovative yet ingeniously simple solution Lindner is responding to the increasing demands placed on the automated sorting of valuable recyclables as well as the ensuing rise in the need among producers of solid recovered fuels (SRF) for pre-shredded yet ideally sortable material. With the new Atlas, the leader in shredding technology is not only focusing on the energy efficiency of shredding systems, but also on the ideal output size with continuous dosing for optical sorting systems and a maximally possible resistance to foreign parts at the same time. Uniform material discharge, more recyclables Designed for very high uptimes (24 hours a day, seven days a week), the ‘ripping twin-shaft shredder’ has a throughput capacity for coarser output sizes and uniform material discharge of 40 to 50 metric tonnes per hour, depending on the feed material. As a result, more recyclable materials, in particular plastics such as film from mixed municipal solid waste as well as from commercial and industry waste,