Andritz MeWa commissions shredder

Andritz MeWa, Gechingen, Germany, a part of the Austria-based equipment company Andritz, has successfully commissioned its QZ 2500 cross-flow shredder at UFH’s recycling facility in Kematen, Ybbs, Austria.

This unit was installed at the recycling plant, which processes refrigerators, in just a few weeks and replaces an older QZ 2000 cross-flow shredder, also supplied by Andritz MeWa in 2009. That shredder processed around 1.8 million refrigerators since being installed.

With the new QZ 2500 cross-flow shredder, Andritz MeWa says the annual capacity of the recycling plant is expected to increase substantially.

The QZ cross-flow shredder is capable of shredding refrigerators quality and safely. After being shredded by the QZ, the fractions containing valuable substances such as aluminum, copper, iron and plastics are removed using suitable separation technology and marketed. The environmentally harmful gases contained in the cooling liquids and insulation of refrigerators are removed completely by suction and collected.

According to Andritz MeWa, in addition to the customer’s great satisfaction with the existing technologies, the improvements in the new machine generation, manufactured in Graz, Austria, also proved decisive for the customer to invest once again in Andritz MeWa technologies.

Andritz supplies plants, equipment and services for hydropower stations, the pulp and paper industry, the metalworking and steel industries and for solid/liquid separation in the municipal and industrial sectors as well as for animal feed and biomass pelleting.

Andritz MeWa has been developing and building shredding and crushing machines as well as turnkey recycling plants for different applications for more than 30 years. The main focuses are processing of electrical and electronic scrap, refrigerators, metal composite materials, domestic and industrial waste, old tires, oil filters, as well as organic waste for biogas plants.