Friedman Upgrades Texas MRF

Bulk Handling Systems (BHS), Eugene, Ore., has designed, manufactured and installed a single-stream recycling system at Friedman Recycling’s facility in El Paso, Texas. Friedman Recycling is based in Phoenix.

According to a BHS press release, the system has achieved production rates of more than 25 to 30 tons per hour. The BHS system replaced an older system that was processing between 12 to 15 tons of recyclables per hour.

“We are very pleased with our most recent expansion in El Paso, Texas,” says Morris Friedman, president of Friedman Recycling. “Although originally constructed less than three years ago, the incredible participation rates in the city of El Paso and our growth throughout west Texas and southern New Mexico necessitated the doubling of our El Paso MRF.”

The single-stream system includes BHS’s De-Inking Screen, which “mechanically separates rigid cardboard and boxboard from newspaper, greatly increasing the purity of recovered paper grades and reducing the need for post sorting the newspaper stream,” according to BHS. The De-Inking Screen has allowed the MRF to reduce its post-sort staff to three people, the company notes in a press release.

The recently redesigned BHS De-Inking Screen is the first to be installed in North America, BHS says, and the El Paso installation marks the 17^th worldwide. The screen has been sold in Europe since 2000.

The BHS single-stream system installed at the El Paso MRF includes screening, as well as optical and air separation technologies.

“We are very excited to be partnered with Friedman Recycling on this project,” says Rich Reardon, director of sales and marketing for BHS. “It’s fitting that an industry leader is the first in the U.S. to adopt the use of the De-Inking Screen to maximize their profits.”