SiCon has announced that Hawk Steel, Kennendale, Tex., will be installing one of the company’s Varisort metal separation system at its Texas auto shredding facility. Pete Bausone, owner of Hawk Steel, says the new separation system will include two eddy current separators and a Varisort inductive metal sorter.
In a release announcing the project, Hawk Steel, which already operates an inline eddy current separator with its American Pulverizer auto shredder, says it hopes that by adding additional sorting equipment offline, it will be able to extract aluminum, copper and other metals from shredder residue.
Hawk Steel's auto shredder runs one 12-hour shift per day.
American Pulverizer, St. Louis, and Hustler Conveyor, O'Fallon, Mo., are supplying the equipment, which, Bausone says, should be installed by this fall. The equipment includes a Hustler tumbleback metering conveyor, a trommel screen designed for three size splits of materials that will be fed to a fines system, and a standard eddy current with more than (5-inches-plus in size) going to a picking conveyor and a 75 ½-inch-wide Varisort 1920 M Extended inductive metal sorter. The platforms are designed for access to all of the equipment and offer multiple picking areas for more flexibility.
The Varisort inductive metal sorter, supplied by SiCon, provides precise detection and separation of non-ferrous metals from the eddy current residue. The sorter features a movable continuous cleaning splitter, easy access to the manifold and a splitter box specifically designed for the scrap industry.
The sorter’s electric control panel allows an easy adaption of the sensitivity, as well as different program settings, which meet the daily demands of operations in the scrap business. The control system contains the standard Varisort remote control capabilities and Visutec software to record various machine parameters.
The Varisort’s come in sizes from 512 mm up to 3.072 mm working width, with integrated vibratory feeders.
The Varisort is offered with M-Sensor (all-metal separation), S-Sensor (stainless steel separation), CCD-Camera (color or gray-scale detection) and NIR-Sensor (near-infrared detection), which offers the operator a broad range of applications. Depending on the task, different sensors as well as a combination of sensors can be integrated to detect and separate even insulated wire/cables.
As a new machine type SiCon, offers an X-Ray transmission sorter for the separation of PVC-plastics from shredder residue or for the separation of different grades of Aluminum from Zorba. SiCon provides the complete system integration of its new X-Ray-machine.
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