Bollegraaf Installs System for Greenstar

Netherlands-based Bollegraaf Recycling Machinery has built a co-mingled material recycling facility for Greenstar in the United Kingdom. The plant has been operational since April 2008. After the facility for Cardiff County Council, the Greenstar plant in Aldridge, U.K., is the second largest facility Bollegraaf has completed in a year-and-a-half.

The project can handle 250,000 metric tons of material per year with a purity rate of more than 96 percent, according to a press release from Bollegraaf. The plant processes both mixed and sorted dry recyclables, including all forms of paper and cardboard, plastic and glass bottles, steel and aluminium cans and wood.

The Greenstar system used Lubo Systems Starscreens instead of drum/rotorscreens, which are designed to keep the paper separate from other recyclables, resulting in cleaner material. The manual labor required has also been reduced in the Greenstar plant, leading to operations costs savings for the company.

With its headquarters in Appingedam, the Netherlands, Bollegraaf Holding has many years of experience building large recycling facilities. In 2007, Bollegraaf Recycling Machinery completed a material recycling facility for the Cardiff County Council in Wales. This facility, like Greenstar’s, processes co-mingled materials with a capacity of 60,000 metric tons per year.

More information is available at www.bollegraaf.com.