Machinex- and RDT-equipped facility opens in Australia

Machinex, Plessisville, Quebec, in collaboration with Australia’s Recycling Design & Technologies Engineering (RDT), has supplied a complete system for a material recovery facility (MRF) in Australia. The MRF is located in Seaford Heights, South Adelaide, and opened this fall in collaboration between the Southern Region Waste Resource Authority and Re.Group. 

According to a news release from Machinex, the facility can process 60,000 metric tons of single-stream recycling per year from the surrounding communities. Beyond recycling commodities such as plastics, paper, metal and glass, the MRF has established an initiative to reuse the recycled glass in asphalt and concrete. 

RDT Engineering and Machinex equipped the facility with automated components such as seven Mach Hyspec optical sorters, two Mach ballistic separators and two additional screen separators.

“RDT is extremely proud of our long partnership with Machinex,” says David Rowland, RDT Engineering’s CEO. “Their world-leading technology has been integral in our projects across Australia and New Zealand. We are thrilled to be currently installing Machinex’s new SamurAI robots at the Adelaide [southern] MRF. This innovation will boost the efficiency of the site and set it as Australia’s newest state-of-the-art MRF.”

“From one project to another, the close collaboration developed over the years between RDT Engineering and Machinex allows for great results,” Jonathan Ménard, vice president of sales and strategic positioning at Machinex. “Their extended experience integrating recycling technologies is instrumental to achieve this cutting-edge system’s optimal performance.”