Machinex completes three installations

Pictured above: the Wasatch Integrated Waste Management District installation. 

Plessisville, Quebec-based Machinex has announced that it has completed a number of projects throughout the United States this spring.

The company completed a 50-ton-per-hour mixed waste processing facility in March for Wasatch Integrated Waste Management District, Layton, Utah. Wasatch selected Machinex after considering its bid response and experience from a similar installation in Minnesota, the equipment maker says. The goal of the project was to separate a large amount of the wet organic fraction from the incoming material, which ultimately resulted in a weight reduction of up to 50 percent and better calorific value for the adjacent waste-to-energy facility, Machinex says. The first phase of Wasatch’s long-term goal includes a presort for various materials and a trommel featuring knifes that help the bag opening process and the removal of the 2-inch-minus fraction.

In May, Machinex started up a 10-ton-per-hour retrofit of a single-stream and commercial waste sorting facility for Seadrunar in Seattle. The upgrade allows for an increase of the facility’s infeed capacity, recovery rate and purity of fines. These improvements were achieved by adding a trommel with knives that help the bag opening process, a MACH Fines Screen, a MACH Ballistic Separator and a Light Fraction Separator, Machinex says.

Mid America Recycling’s 10-ton-per-hour residential single-stream waste sorting facility in Lincoln, Nebraska, was commissioned in May. Machinex delivered a system featuring a MACH Ballistic Separator to function as the primary sorter of fibers and containers.