News items August 2019

State-of-the-Art SRF Production Facility in Germany: SRF for an Entire Cement Plant 24/7 The two major players in recycling and waste processing: Lindner-Recyclingtech and the B+T Group have been partners for many years, successfully working together on many important projects. Now they are delighted to announce their latest project: a brand-new SRF production facility with the most modern technology in the whole of Germany. One Lindner Jupiter 3200 for primary shredding and three Komet 2800 HP for secondary shredding are in operation there. The latter are part of the new Series 2 – a recently launched Lindner innovation. The Bohn group’s eighth facility – with a total of over twenty Lindner machines in operation – covers an area of 25,000 square metres below the cement plant, has a maximum throughput of 250,000 metric tons per year and a storage facility for approximately 4,000 metric tons of finished goods. Pre-sorted waste is processed at the plant, especially non-recyclable post-consumer packaging and plastic film, as well as rubber and textile

Hornbach Baumarkt AG is optimising processes with a waste management concept The heart of the innovative concept: vertical balers from HSM. 330 of the HSM V-Press 860 and HSM V-Press 1160 max balers compact paper, cardboard and fi lm at 180 points of collection – megastores and logistics and administration centres in nine European countries. The investment for the balers is paid off within a very short period. The concept, said Andreas Back, Head of Quality Management, Environment & CSR at Hornbach, has increased the recycling quota dramatically: “A lot of residual waste has become recyclable material.” Objective: waste separation across Europe Those responsible at Hornbach tested a variety of baler models from various manufacturers in a DIY megastore. In doing so, they very quickly saw “clear differences” in ease of operation, quality and lastly, the price, reported Andreas Back. The “highest quality” and the “best price-performance ratio” were exhibited, in his opinion, by the HSM presses. Back: “We simply had a very good

The Ideal Solution not only for Masterbatch Crystallization and Drying At its exhibition stand in hall 9, stand A-55, at this year’s K-2019, Kreyenborg gmbH will show an IR-Batch 90/100-30. Exactly like the continuously working infrared rotary drums made by this machine manufacturer in Senden, Germany, the discontinuously working IR-Batch ensures a very gentle, while very efficient treatment of the material. Whether the task is heating-up, crystallizing, drying or coating of plastics pellets, the IR-Batch is flexible and versatile. It is not only suitable for processing plastic materials, but also chemical products and foodstuff. The IR-Batch has become established worldwide in PET Masterbatch drying processes long since. This is due to its two key features: an ideal process control and an enormous flexibility. Drying of PET Masterbatch is only possible if the polymer crystallizes simultaneously, because otherwise undesired pellets agglomerations could form. Therefore, the drum of the drying unit is equipped with incorporated mixing

Infrared-Rotary Drum for various applications At its exhibition stand, Kreyenborg gmbH & Co. KG from Senden, Germany, will show its IRD B 180/270-135, thus representing all kinds of Infrared applications in the plastics processing and recycling industry. Individual, tailor-made infrared rotary drums are available for pre-heating, crystallization, drying and coating of virgin materials. Kreyenborg has developed the IR-CLEAN® especially for degassing and decontamination processes of PET post-consumer bottle flakes. This particularly economical solution for the treatment of recycling material, which has already been awarded a Letter of Non-Objection by FDA and positive results by EFSA, will be one of this year’s highlights at K’2019, stand A55 in hall 9. Apart from complete production lines for bulk material handling processes, infrared rotary drums are the key competences of Kreyenborg gmbH. Several hundreds of these systems have already been installed world-wide in the plastics processing industry alone. Their

Kreyenborg presents outstanding competence in bulk handling at this year’s K Automatized comprehensive concept solutions all around bulk handling are among the core competences of Kreyenborg gmbH & Co. KG from Senden, Germany. At his exhibition stand in hall 9, stand A-55, this machine builder with more than 50 years of experience in the industrial fields of drying, crystallizing, storing, mixing, conveying and metering of plastic materials shows the example of an MBM Quick Mixer with a volume capacity of 500 liters. This Mixer is perfectly suited for the gentle mixing of Masterbatch, Compound or Glass Fiber pellets. The Mixer shown is the smallest of the MBM series, which covers volume capacities ranging up to 20,000 liters. With these types of Quick Mixers, Kreyenborg perfectly meets the standards set by its customers concerning gentle handling of pellets, high accuracy of mixing and simple and quick methods of cleaning. The slowly turning big mixing screw and the short residence time in the Mixer ensure the gentle treatment of the material.

The new star on the scraper sky The new Conveyor Belt Scraper Starclean® RS ensures a quick and safe maintenance from outside the chute. This is achieved by the comfortable lateral change of the individual scraper blades, whereby the pull-out forces get reduced drastically. Safety during maintenance is an important aspect. Often the staff member is forced to work inside the chute with the help of scaffoldings or similar. With the Starclean® RS that’s the past. Due to the lateral exchange no scaffoldings are necessary anymore and the staff member works safely outside the chute. By renouncing complex scaffoldings and other possible safety-relevant measures, downtimes decrease extremely and therefore the productivity increases in an enormous way. Furthermore, this scraper is multifunctional combinable with the proven tungsten carbide segments from the Starclean® modular system and can optionally be regulated by an electric drive of the tensioning device. With the electric drive the Starclean®