UK recycler adds container sort line

Blackburn, U.K.-based Rishton Recycling  has recently purchased and installed a new container sort line from Ken Mills Engineering Ltd. (KME ).

 

Rishton Recycling, established in 1984 by managing director Bill Braysford, is located at the site of the former Rishton Paper Mill. The recycling site consists of an 8,000-square-foot warehouse and a yard capable of storing up to 1,000 metric tons of recovered fiber and recyclables.

 

The recycling company contacted KME Ltd. to help design and build a container sort line. KMR says the system that was installed is capable of handling three tons per hour of clean mixed containers without glass. The sorting conveyor has five positions, including two for picking out waste products and any recyclables that are to be kept separate from the mixed plastics. 

 

The sort system comprises of an infeed conveyor, a 9-meter sort conveyor with bunkers, master magnets, an overband magnet and master magnets eddy current separator with vibrating feed table. The system was designed and built in-house at KME’s purpose-built facility based in Littleborough Rochdale, U.K.

 

According to KME, should Rishton Paper wish to upgrade the plant to remove glass, the current layout of the machinery has been designed to accommodate a glass screen at the front end. The design of the CP glass screen will increase the plant’s capacity to 10 tons per hour, KME reports.