News items March 2024

Coperion and Herbold Meckesheim will present a variety of advanced components and solutions for plastics recycling and processing at NPE 2024 At NPE 2024 (May 6-10, 2024, Orlando, Florida / USA), Coperion and Herbold Meckesheim will present a variety of advanced components and solutions for plastics recycling and processing at their Booth W1601 in West Hall Level 2. As a raw material, plastic can make a valuable contribution to environmental protection, the energy revolution and a circular economy. The key is efficient recycling of plastics. For this reason, plastics recycling is the focus of comprehensive development projects at Coperion and Herbold Meckesheim. The two companies will show the results of these projects at NPE 2024 by presenting combined process solutions and technologies for the economical recycling of various plastics while achieving the highest levels of product quality. On display in the booth will be a ZSK 58 Mc18 twin screw extruder configured for manufacturing high-quality PET using recycled materials as well as the recently introduced ZS-B 70 MEGAfeed side feeder for lightweight fiber

Job portal Yourfirm.de honors the company for the third time Schönberg, March 2024 Sesotec GmbH, a leading global mechanical engineering company in the fields of foreign object detection and material sorting, has received the coveted ”Top Employer in SMEs 2024” award from the renowned job portal Yourfirm.de for the third time in a row. With around 740 employees worldwide, Sesotec sets standards in terms of career opportunities and employee satisfaction. The award from the job portal Yourfirm.de is based on the evaluation of the access and reading behavior of users to the more than 60,000 job advertisements on Yourfirm.de within one year. The evaluation criteria are: - the number of users that a company reaches on average per job advertisement and company profile, - the percentage of users who actually read through the content, i.e. spend a correspondingly long time on the page, - as well as the percentage of readers who take an application-related action, e.g. by clicking on ”Apply now” or the company’s website

NEUE HERBOLD - Washing lines for wet recycling of conterminated plastics NEUE HERBOLD Maschinen- und Anlagenbau GmbH, located in Sinsheim/Germany manufactures and sells complete washing lines for the recycling of plastics waste. Prior to re-pelletizing the plastic waste must be size reduced, washed and if necessary foreign materials separated. NEUE HERBOLD washing lines, produce granules or flakes with a high quality even at today`s required outputs. Materials which can be recycled are: - industrial, agriculture, domestic, thin and stretch films - PET bottles - bottles and containers made of HDPE - tanks, bottle cases, rubbish bins - PVC window profiles, car battery cases Depending on the application, material and level of contamination, a recycling line may consist of: - shredder - granulator or wet-granulator (cutting mill) - metal separator - friction washer - intensive washer - floating-sink-tank (swim-sink-tank) - mechanical dryer - thermal dryer - material separator - screening machine -

Radar sensor from UWT is the bespoke solution for content measurement Continuous level monitoring devices regulate and control liquid or solid levels in a processing plant, helping to streamline the operation, eliminate human error and thus maximise overall efficiency. And so level control devices should be and are an investment that needs careful research and consideration to ensure that the investment in such kit is wisely made. Our customer, a large paper mill based in the UK, approached UWT UK Ltd to achieve all the above for the monitoring of their coal silo and in a backwater tank. A mechanical system in the coal silo and ultrasonic technology in the backwater tank had both failed leaving the monitoring task being executed manually using a tape measure dropped in through the tops of the silo and tank. Clearly, it was time to upgrade. So the customer approached UWT UK Ltd to visit and inspect the applications and to advise on a long term, reliable solution within budget. Time & consideration During the site visit the UWT

As the world gravitates towards sustainable solutions, the recycling of lithium-ion batteries has emerged as a crucial element in our green future. Central to this process is the handling of ’black mass,’ a complex substance that presents unique challenges in recycling and especially screening. Understanding Black Mass Screening Black mass, primarily composed of valuable metals like lithium, cobalt, and nickel, also contains graphite, which complicates the recycling process. Screening is essential at different stages, such as removing larger metal foils during black mass creation and purifying black mass by removing materials like aluminum and copper. The primary challenge arises from the large fraction of fine graphite particles in black mass, which can be as small as 10 µm. The nature of fine graphite as a sticky, greasy material complicates the process. It tends to adhere to other particles, making separation difficult. Additionally, graphite’s propensity to clog meshes and form agglomerates that move as cakes across screens reduces screening efficiency. Traditional screening methods often struggle

Sesotec GmbH, a leading mechanical engineering company in the fields of foreign object detection and material sorting with around 740 employees worldwide, appointed Niklas Burkart to the position of Chief Financial Officer (CFO) on August 1, 2023. Schönberg, March 2024 Sesotec GmbH, a leading mechanical engineering company in the fields of foreign object detection and material sorting with around 740 employees worldwide, appointed Niklas Burkart to the position of Chief Financial Officer (CFO) on August 1, 2023. Joachim Schulz, CEO of Sesotec, is delighted that there is now once again a ”trio” on the Executive Board: ”With Niklas Burkart, we are welcoming a financial expert with many years of experience as our new CFO. His expertise in all aspects of corporate finance and his experience in digitalization projects and the management of complex transformation programs are important reinforcements for Sesotec to ensure its success in the future.” Professional career After studying business administration at the Georg-August University of Göttingen and graduating with a degree in business administration, his professional career took him to Infineon Technologies, Airbus AG and its subsidiaries in Germany,

Which items or assets should be on your radar? With our innovative EXA81 add-on your phone and tablet can pick up any RFID labelled item within 15 metres. See highlighted assets on-screen, and home in. No line of sight required. Brady’s EXA81 turns any smartphone or tablet into a personal radar that can pick up radio signals from all RFID labelled items, assets, tools and equipment within 15 metres. Easily select any item and home in with sounds and visuals. Find without searching Easily read up to 1000 RFID-labelled items per second within 15 metres, with a single scan. Select the item you need on your smartphone or tablet screen, and quickly home in with sounds and visuals. Line of sight is not required, and you will not need to find, move, flip or rotate items and assets to scan a barcode. Your phone. Your apps. Easily empower your Android and Apple phones and tablets with the EXA81 to add an RFID read range of up to 15 metres. Firmly attach mobile devices with screws or Quadlock and link your phone or tablet via Bluetooth 5.3 or USB-C. Your device now has an ergonomic pistol grip to trigger scans of UHF RFID labels, barcodes, 2D codes and NFC labels for up to 24 hours on a single

The terms ‘functional safety’ and ‘safety integrity level (SIL)’ have occurred more frequently since the publication of the international standard IEC 61508/IEC61511. SIL2 for rotating paddle series Particularly in systems with hazard-causing processes, such as in chemical plants, the consideration of functional safety has become indispensable. On this basis safety-related practices, design principles and error considerations must be met in order to minimize the risk of a dangerous failure. Risk mitigation in accordance with SIL2 The UWT engineers focused on this topic and designed the rotating paddle switch Rotonivo® RN 6000 series according to the normative requirements of functional safety to ensure safety functions in a risk mitigation in accordance with SIL2. Typical safety functions are overfill and dry run protection. Full, demand or empty Depending on the requirements, the Rotonivo® rotary paddle switch is used as a full, demand or empty detector in storage silos or process vessels and is suitable for use in almost all solids. With its simple electromechanical measuring principle it can also be adapted for extreme

With the new subsidiaries in Denmark and Sweden, which will open in spring 2024, VEGA is actively responding to this development and moving even closer to customers with its modern level and pressure measurement technology. The demand for innovative measurement technology for industry is also increasing in Scandinavia. With the new subsidiaries in Denmark and Sweden, which will open in spring 2024, VEGA is actively responding to this development and moving even closer to customers with its modern level and pressure measurement technology. Scandinavia is not new territory for VEGA. A VEGA subsidiary has been operating in Norway since 2015. In Sweden and Denmark, VEGA was represented by local dealers until now. With the establishment of the two new subsidiaries, VEGA’s presence in the two countries with promising markets will now be consolidated. Customer service is the top priority Jürgen Schuijren, Managing Director of VEGA Netherlands, is currently at the forefront of the expansion into the north. “We want to offer these markets the level of service that customers are used to from VEGA,” he says – in other words, short logistics routes, a common language with customers,

Theoretical and practical knowledge about spice production. The conference in English, participation costs 295 euros per person. Whether turmeric or chilli, tea, coriander or caraway: every spice has its own specific properties and requirements. These should be taken into account in the production of high-quality food and in the development of efficient production processes. To gain a deeper understanding of these topics, Hosokawa Alpine AG is organising the Alpine Process Technology Summit | Spices at its headquarters in Augsburg on 16 and 17 April 2024. The entire spectrum of spice processing With the motto ”fit for future markets”, experts from Hosokawa Alpine, Behn + Bates, Hosokawa Micron B.V., Nexopart and Hosokawa Solids will share their in-depth expertise on spice processing with the participants. Topics range from cleaning, cutting, grinding and mixing to particle analysis, powder handling and packaging as well as after-sales service for existing plants. The technical presentations will go hand in hand with a practical session at Hosokawa Alpine’s test centre. ”The laboratory