Eriez test center finding metals recycling answers

Magnetic equipment maker Eriez says its Recycling Test Center in Erie, Pennsylvania, is providing customers with “a full-scale testing opportunity to separate ferrous and nonferrous materials on the world’s most advanced recycling equipment.”

Eriez Recycling Market Manager Mike Shattuck says work carried out in the Recycling Test Center is helping its major recycling partners upgrade their operations, increase productivity and profitability and improve safety.

Scrap recycling customers using the test center to examine their processes for improved separation efficiency include Cincinnati-based Garden Street Iron & Metal and Iowa-based Lakeside Auto, among many others.

“With an assortment of top-quality Eriez recycling equipment, we can customize testing procedures based on customers’ unique material handling needs,” Shattuck says. “After evaluating testing data and working closely with customers to understand their specific goals and challenges, we identify ideal technology solutions.”

The test center has been equipped to perform tests on a variety of materials, including zorba, twitch, zebra, zurik and other mixed shredded metals, according to Eriez. The company says it also has the resources to handle auto shredder residue, wire choppings and polyethylene terephthalate plastic flakes contaminated with aluminum and work-hardened stainless steel.

Equipment at the facility includes multiple Eriez eddy current separators, magnetic drum separators, suspended permanent magnets and electrostatic separators. “After lab testing, Eriez determines recovery rates, which are predicated by the location of equipment in a process flow,” Shattuck says. “We follow our products into the field to ensure the successful realization of the predicted results.”