Equipment report

Oslo sorting plant receives innovation award

Waste and recycling company Raumarike Avfallsforedling IKS (RoAF) of Norway, and German equipment supplier Stadler have been recognised by the German-Norwegian Chamber of Commerce with an Innovation Award, for its new automated waste sorting plant in Oslo. The municipal solid waste (MSW) sorting system was supplied by Germany-based Stadler, and is operated by RoAF.

Stadler says the plant is the first of its kind in the world and has an MSW processing capacity of 30 tonnes per hour. Completed in three months, the facility contains 14 near infrared (NIR) sorting units, over 300 tonnes of steel and 1,300 square metres of walkways, covering six floors. The company says that because of its high level of automation, the plant requires a staff of only two operators to load waste and remove the baled materials. The rest of the operation is monitored and controlled by closed-circuit television.

To ensure efficient operations, the plant relies on community members to sort all of their waste into colour-coded bags. Upon receipt at the plant, the NIR units sort according to colour before further processing. Food waste is diverted to an anaerobic digester with the resultant gas used to help fuel the public transport system.

Hungary’s Vasker Plusz adds Sennebogen electric handlers

Hungarian scrap dealer Vasker-Plusz has added two stationary Sennebogen 825 Electro machines for material handling. According to Sennebogen, the electrically driven stationary machines cover an area of approximately 1,000 square metres. Sennebogen’s sales and service partner in the region is Kuhn Rakodógép of Hungary.

Vasker-Plusz Kft, founded in 1989, procures scrap material from eastern Hungary and sorts and processes the material at its Békés site, approximately 190 kilometres east of Budapest. In the course of restructuring the scrapyard, the entire material flow on the site was reorganized.

Previously, the firm worked with several mobile material handling excavators, but now the firm relies on the two machines from Sennebogen. Equipped with a 110 kilowatt (kW) electric motor and special material handling kinematics, each machine is equipped to charge the shredder system and for sorting and loading.

Competitive operational costs afforded by the electric power trains of the machines have been cited as purchase considerations, Sennebogen says. The recycling company plans to generate the energy required by the machines on-site with photovoltaic elements, Sennebogen reports. One machine sorts and loads the material with a multi-shell grab while the second machine charges the scrap metal shears and the shredder.

Copex, Jiangsu Huahong to market shear line

Copex, a manufacturer of scrap shear balers for the metals recycling industry, has partnered with the Chinese company Jiangsu Huahong Technology Stock Co. Ltd., to form a company to market the Reflex 500t mobile scrap shear from Copex in Asia and the rest of the world.

Ownership of the new company, called MH Recycling HK Co., which will be headquartered in Hong Kong, will be split evenly between the two companies.

Copex, based in France, has worked in China for more than 20 years and is seeking to grow its business there through the joint venture.

Copex says the Reflex 500t can help recyclers optimise their investment cost because the portable machine can process scrap material at various storage sites, and because the scrap shear utilises the same technological innovations as heavy-duty scrap shears. The shear will be manufactured by Huahong Technology under Copex’s supervision.

“COPEX machines are well-known worldwide for their solidity and being at the forefront of innovation. When the Reflex 500t was launched last autumn, we estimated that it was the ideal machine for the Asian market, and that this model provided us the best opportunity to go into a partnership with COPEX to move upscale and improve the performance of our group,” says M. Hu Shi Yong, chairman of Jiangsu Huahong Technology.