ENVIPCO
Environmental Products Corp., Fairfax, Va., a manufacturer of automated redemption systems for used beverage containers, has installed a 40-million-pound-per- year post-consumer PET container recycling line in its Riverside, Calif., facility.
The PET recycling line was designed and engineered by ENVIPCO and Golden Systems, Las Vegas, and will be installed in an existing ENVIPCO-owned 60,000-square-foot facility with an adjacent five-acre storage yard in Riverside. The facility currently contains a PET separation line that grinds beverage containers and separates labels and polyolefins from the PET flake.
This existing PET separation line will be integrated into the new PET recycling line as originally designed.
The PET line will be used to process color-separated and mixed color post-consumer PET bottles to high-quality clear and green flake, designed to meet the stringent specifications of the blow-molded bottle, sheet and thermoforming packaging applications. The line is expected to be fully operational at the end of the first calendar quarter of 1996.
ENVIPCO has entered into a long-term agreement with the Plastics Recycling Corp. of California, a joint venture of major bottlers and PET bottle producers in California, for the major portion of the recycled bottle raw material supply for this facility.
This agreement will assure ENVIPCO up to 30 million pounds per year of recycled PET containers after an initial phase-in period.
INDUSTRIAL CAPITAL MANAGEMENT
Industrial Capital Management, Akron, Ohio, has installed an ICM 3000 M wire chopping line at Maple Leaf Metals, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The machine processes from 3,500 to 4,000 pounds per hour of copper wire, according to Gordon Schroder, general manager of Maple Leaf.
“We’ve had the line in place for six or seven months,” says Schroder, “and we are producing three to four loads a month of end product, at 60,000 pounds per load.”
Maple Leaf recovers up to 90 percent usable copper after processing wire through the ICM line, depending on the material. The system is a great improvement over the method the company previously used to burn the insulation off copper – incineration, he says.
“The chopping line is more environmentally sound,” says Schroder.
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