Columbus McKinnon Europe (CM Europe) has announced in a press release that it recently completed the installation and startup of a stage one and stage two processing system as a part of a complete crumb rubber plant at Sardinia, Italy-based FDG Recycling.
CM Europe says stage one consists of the CM Primary Shredder, which is designed to process European super single truck tires. It will reduce whole tires to a 6-inch-by-6-inch, or 300-by-300-millimeter, tire shred.
Stage two includes the CM4R Liberator, which processes the primary shred material into an 18-millimeter-minus product. The system is configured to extract clean steel that will also be sold to a recycler. All wire-free rubber will be fed to additional equipment for sizing cleaning and screening, according to CM Europe. FDG Recycling is a new company founded and operated by the Collu family, including Giampaolo Collu and his daughters, Frederica and Danielle, Sardinia natives. According to a press release, the business had been a parts assembly plant for trucks and buses, but the family decided to redirect its focus and has formed a tire recycling business producing a variety of crumb rubber products.
Sardina has a population of more than 6 million people, and prior to FDG contracting with the Italian government to become the sole tire recycler for Sardinia, there was no system in place for tire disposal and recycling, according to the press release.
CM Europe, headed by Sales Manager Martin Rots, worked with the Collu family along with a local Italian engineering firm to assist in the design plan for the recycling facility.
FDG is producing 1- to 3-millimeter and 4- to 7-millimeter crumb rubber for use as field turf, asphalt and for molded rubber products such as floor matting and tiles.
More information about Sarasota, Fla.-based Columbus McKinnon and its line of tire recycling equipment is available at www.cmtirerecyclingequipment.com.
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