CP Group debuts OCC Auger Screen

San Diego-based CP Group has announced the availability of the OCC Auger Screen, a patented machine designed to separate midsize to large old corrugated containers (OCC) in material recovery facilities (MRF). The screen uses a series of steel parallel cantilevered tri-lobe augers to create agitation, similar to the company’s traditional OCCScreen, liberating material and creating a clean OCC fraction, CP Group says.

“Our customers challenged us to create the MRF of the Future,” says Ashley Davis, director of sales and marketing at CP Group. “We responded by developing a nonwrapping machine that disrupts the traditional MRF design flow and eliminates the presort. Our new patented OCC Auger Screen specifically targets OCC to create a clean end product utilizing high-agitation augers.”

Several of these machines have been sold for use in commercial and single-stream applications. The first unit CP installed is at Waste Connection’s Ecosort facility in Eugene, Oregon, CP notes. This facility processes 15 to 20 tons per hour of commercial recyclables.

“CP’s OCC Auger Screen has been a great addition to our operation,” Brian White, district manager of Sanipac/Ecosort/Sweet Home Sanitation/County Transfer and Recycling. “This machine does an exceptional job at producing a clean stream of OCC at an efficient pace with minimal downtime and cleaning necessary.”

White adds, “The folks at CP have been great to work with through this process, and we will definitely work with them again for future projects.”

According to CP Group, the OCC Auger Screen does not need material to be presorted and can go directly after the infeed conveyor. It offers the same benefit of a disc screen to separate material without wrapping.

Each shaft is a self-cleaning, rotating screw that allows material that is prone to wrapping to come off the opposite end, the manufacturer says. When placed in front of a traditional presort, material is screened before being presented to the sorting staff, offering a much safer environment for workers because sharps and other small hazardous material will bypass sorters in the unders fraction. After the OCC Auger Screen, large trash is removed by OCC quality-control personnel with a much-decreased burden depth, CP Group says.

Visit www.cpgrp.com/occ-auger-screen to see the new OCC Auger Screen in operation.