Kinshofer USA to distribute Moros equipment in North America
Moros Industrias Hidráulicas s.a., the Spanish manufacturer of shears and balers for the scrap recycling market, has entered into a North American distribution agreement with Kinshofer USA, based in Sanborn, New York. The announcement was made at the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) Convention & Exhibition in Vancouver, British Columbia, in April 2015.
Kinshofer, the maker of mobile shears, processors and other attachments for the scrap and demolition industries, now will distribute Moros products in the U.S. and Canada.
Since the 1980s, Moros has sold several Moros machines into North America, including the H-P-1400 scrap shear, which features an angular side-adjustable precompression box, and the GC-S-800, a high-density vertical compression and cutting system that can process 60 tonnes per hour.
Moros has been in business for 60 years offering a wide range of stationary and mobile shears and balers. The company says its success has been driven by its ability to match the proper standard unit to a customer’s application or by custom building products to meet the needs of its customers around the world.
Kinshofer, similar to Moros, says it is focused on its customers.
“Both companies are continually investing in R&D to assure they remain on the cutting edge of equipment technology,” they state in a joint news release. They say they are “committed to offering [our] customers the latest technical advantages so their products will be reliable, efficient, safe and productive. Keeping operating costs down and ROI up are the primary goals of both firms.”
The North American distribution agreement marks the next step in an ongoing relationship between the two companies. “Kinshofer and Moros already collaborate in Brazil, Spain and other countries, and working together in the USA and Canada will only strengthen our relationship,” says Francois Martin, general manager of Kinshofer North America.
Moros will add another dimension to the Kinshofer line in North America and will be a natural fit for the markets both companies serve, company officials say.
“Two great brands offering high-quality products with excellent sales, service and support will be a perfect combination,” says Diego Esteban López, commercial director of Moros. “Together we can only succeed,” he adds.
Ragn-Sells recycling plants in Sweden add Presona equipment
Swedish recycling firm Ragn-Sells is in the process of expanding its operations with the addition of new sorting and baling equipment at its plants in Karlstad, Norrköping and Örebro, Sweden.
The company has purchased two new Presona LP 85 VH2 balers, designed to allow it to bale scrap paper it sends to papermaker Pressretur, which has locations in Värmland, Östergötland and Närke, Sweden.
Ragn-Sells says it also will be able to process more corrugated cardboard, plastic and other materials with the new equipment.
Ragn-Sells purchased its first Presona baler in 2006, when it won a contract from Pressretur in Värmland. That baler was installed in Karlstad.
“When we were due to start baling waste paper in Karlstad, we of course looked at solutions from various suppliers. The result was that we decided on a baling press from Presona, an LP 80 VH1, and it has been working really well ever since,” says Lars Nordström, Ragn-Sell departmental manager for Värmland/Örebro. “The company eventually grew with larger quantities of waste paper, but also corrugated cardboard and plastic. As a result, in recent years we had to run three shifts.”
Presona says Ragn-Sells’ decision to purchase the new machines also involved the addition of higher capacity balers. Based on the company’s previous experiences from Karlstad, Ragn-Sells now operates seven Presona balers in its Swedish operations.
The new balers are supplied with Presona’s sorting lines, where material that is not to be included in the process is manually removed to meet the paper mills’ quality requirements.
According to Presona, the new balers were expected to be operating by the end of April 2015.
Meanwhile, the company’s original baler in Karlstad, where it had operated for almost 10 years, has been moved and is now operating at the recycer’s Örebro location.
“Currently we do not need as much capacity in Örebro as in Karlstad, so the simplest and best solution was simply to move the old baler there,” Nordström says. “It has been properly serviced, and parts had been replaced as they wore out, so it works really well and has many years of service left in it. And of course reusing is the most efficient form of recycling, which is something we are specialists in.”
Greek recycler adds Sicon technology
Aeiforos SA, a subsidiary of Greek steel manufacturer Sidenor, has announced it will process zurik (mixed shredded scrap that is predominantly stainless steel) at its in-house recycling facility with new technology provided by Sicon GmbH, headquartered in Germany.
Aeiforos SA already operates a reprocessing plant in Thessaloniki, Greece, that employs Sicon-100 technology.
For its end-of-life vehicle recycling process, Aeiforos SA is one of the first companies in Europe able to prove compliance with recycling rates established by the end-of-life vehicles ordinance in force since the beginning of 2015, according to Sicon.
To improve the value from its shredder residue, the Greek recycling company says it will further process its zurik with the new Sicon system module.
“Processing of zurik is necessary to complete the ASR (auto shredder residue) recycling unit,” says Andreas Chasiotis, general manager of Aeiforos SA. “Once this upgrade is implemented, residual metal fractions of high quality will be recovered.”
In an offline operation, Aeiforos will run a plant that will use the Sicon Varisort M to separate the zurik into copper, stainless steel and aluminium fractions, Sicon reports.
UK plastic scrap plant installs Bunting magnets
Recycled UK has purchased and installed seven magnetic separators that were designed, manufactured and supplied by Bunting Magnetics Europe Ltd. at its plant in Wolverhampton, U.K.
Recycled UK says the separators have been installed to enhance metal separation and removal in its plastic scrap management system. The company says it provides waste management solutions with an ability to recycle different grades of plastic scrap.
Plastic scrap received by the firm comes from both primary manufacturing and secondary recycling channels in the U.K. Presently, the company processes up to 200 tonnes per month of reground plastics. The company’s new installations were designed to prevent metal contamination in the plastics recycling process.
Paul Cotton, production director of Recycling UK Ltd., first met Bunting, based in Berkhamsted, U.K., at the Interplas exhibition in Birmingham, England, in 2014. Cotton says that while he already had an idea of how to solve the problem, he met up with Carlton Hicks, Bunting’s U.K. sales manager.
Recycled UK installed two different magnetic separators. On the end of its conveyors it replaced its standard head-drive pulleys with magnetic pulleys. Material is conveyed up and into the magnetic field of the magnetic pulley, where ferrous metal is attracted and held to the belt’s surface. Nonmagnetic material falls under its normal trajectory, while the captured ferrous is then discharged into a separate collection bin underneath. The company also installed four plate magnets of three different sizes. The high-strength rare earth magnet models are being used to remove and capture materials as small as fine iron filings from the conveyed plastic. Since the installation of the magnets, the company reports no stoppages resulting from metal contamination have occurred.
Stora Enso plant installs Redwave system
Stora Enso has invested €9 million (US$9.6 million) in a new paper recycling sorting line at its Langerbrugge Mill in Ghent, Belgium. The paper for recycling (PfR) sorting line from Austria-based Redwave has been installed in a new 5,200-square-metre (56,000-square-foot) building.
The mill produces printing and writing paper products made from 100% recovered fibre collected within a 300-kilometre radius of Ghent. The Stora Enso mill also has been a majority shareholder of Vlar Papier since 2005. Vlar Papier in Belgium is active in the procurement of paper and board through municipal recycling collection programs.
“Operating the two Vlar Papier Paper for Recycling sorting lines on our premises ensures that about 40% of the Langerbrugge mill’s need for high-quality sorted paper is provided directly to the mill,” says Chris De Hollander, managing director of the mill.
The turnkey PfR plant from Redwave includes “advanced control concepts [and] online quality monitoring and plant optimization tools,” Redwave says.
A video clip of the Redwave Stora Enso Ghent installation can be found at www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD7VGjqfrzo.