Steady economic growth and large investments in construction projects have opened up new opportunities for the recycling industry in Poland, according to Denmark-based Eldan Recycling A/S, which says it has received a number of inquiries from the country.
“The past five years we have noticed a steady increase in requests from Poland,” says Toni Reftman, managing director at Eldan Recycling. “Within cable recycling we have noticed an increase in both quotes and orders for small- and medium-capacity systems, as well as for solutions for further recovery of fine copper from insulation. Also within tyre recycling we notice a trend in further improving the end-product. A further cleaned steel fraction with a density of up to 0.7 is very desirable with European steel works.”
Local representative for Eldan in Poland, Tomasz Kajzer at Rub-Met, agrees with Reftman. “The recycling industry in Poland has for a long while consisted of a few key players—mainly within large-capacity tyre recycling and cable/electronics recycling. Now we are contacted by investors looking for equipment in the mentioned areas, as well as [by] more niched ones, like production of RDF (residual derived fuel) and aluminium scrap processing. Processing of OTR (over-the-road) tyres seems also to generate bigger interest than in the past years.”
He continues, “So far sales have been really good this year. On top of that we still have a few projects which we expect to be finalized before the end of the year. The recycling industry in Poland is certainly blooming!”
Since 1956 Eldan Recycling A/S has been developing machinery and methods for making the recycling of tyres, cables and WEEE, for example, efficient and profitable. Eldan Recycling A/S delivers both turnkey systems as well as single machines and has installed more than 900 plants and 7,100 single machines worldwide.