North Carolina city starts up MRF

The city of High Point, North Carolina, began operating its new material recovery facility (MRF) in January 2018. The MRF features equipment supplied by Plessisville, Quebec-based Machinex, that the city acquired to improve its recovery rates and to accommodate its growing tonnage. The commingled recyclables are collected from a portion of Guilford County and Jamestown, North Carolina.

The 10-ton-per-hour residential single-stream system features the new Mach Double-Deck OCC screen, which is designed to reduce wrapping and improve cardboard recovery, Machinex says. A Mach Ballistic Separator was installed instead of a traditional disc screen to separate the fibers from the containers. This ballistic solution reduces maintenance in a significant way for the operator because it has no shafts for material to wrap around and no rubber discs to replace, the supplier says. A ferrous magnet and a Machinex eddy current separator were installed at the end of the container line.

"In addition to meeting the project requirements, we were impressed with Machinex’s complete solution approach in being able to design, manufacture, install and service the entire system,” says Melanie Bruton, MRF superintendent. “We are excited to evaluate the efficiencies for processing and recovery.”

"Obviously, we are quite proud to have been involved in the winning bid for the High Point, North Carolina, city MRF,” says Rusty Angel, eastern region sales manager for Machinex. “After all, High Point is the location of Machinex’s U.S. corporate headquarters. A local building contractor submitted the successful bid, and we supplied them the equipment. Our project management teams worked closely together to deliver a successful project for the city and optimize the performance of their system. This system not only meets High Point’s current processing requirements but [also] provides plenty of room for additional tons they may bring into the facility in the coming years."