Andritz to provide Enva with refrigerator recycling plant

International technology group Andritz, Graz, Austria, will supply Enva Northern Ireland Ltd. with an automated refrigerator recycling plant for its new site in Toomebridge, Northern Ireland. According to Andritz, the plant will process 70 units per hour. Startup is scheduled for 2024. 

“The new Andritz plant, in addition to doubling our current capacity, will also achieve the final shred size in a single step, giving us high-quality output material ready for sale,” Barry Phillips, director at Enva, says. “Another important advantage is that we will be able to process domestic and commercial fridges at the same time.”   

“The heart of the plant is our ADuro QZ shredder,” Franz Frühauf, sales director, reject and recycling, at Andrtiz, says. “It does not use any cutting tools but gently and quickly breaks up the input material by using the effects of impact forces. It is a breakthrough technology because it makes valuable waste material quickly accessible without potentially harmful substances emanating from individual parts, all at low operating costs.” 

The plant will dismantle and sort materials for simultaneous processing of chloro fluero carbon (CFC) and pentane refrigerators from domestic and commercial markets, the company says. 

Enva is a provider of waste management, recycling and resource recovery with locations in Ireland and the United Kingdom. With a focus on industrial and commercial construction, it operates in the hazardous and nonhazardous sectors.