Machinex Technologies Inc., the U.S. office of Machinex Industries Inc., Plessisville, Quebec, has announced that it was awarded the bid to provide a new single-stream system for York County, South Carolina’s material recovery facility (MRF). This new system will allow the county to process the growing tonnage of residential recyclables collected at the county’s 16 collection and recycling centers.
The system is designed to process 10,000 to 15,000 tons per year of mixed single-stream recyclables that come primarily from residences with a limited amount of commercial material. It features a Mach double-deck OCC screen, which is designed to reduce wrapping and improve cardboard recovery, and a fines screen at the beginning of the process. A Mach Ballistic Separator was installed instead of a traditional disc screen to separate the fiber from the containers. The automated container-sorting line includes an optical sorter to recover polyethylene terephthalate (PET), a magnet and an eddy current separator. A Machinex two-ram baler was selected to complete this system.
"The Machinex project management team did a great job of keeping the project moving along, and our interaction with their crews was excellent,” says Arthur Ligon of the York County government. “The startup personnel did a very good job training us on the system and helping our staff with all of the operational aspects of the system.”
Rusty Angel, eastern region sales manager at Machinex Technologies, High Point, South Carolina, says, "The county has been processing all of the recyclables collected from their 16 collection and recycling centers at a dual-stream facility that utilized nearly all manual labor. We applaud the County for having the vision to build this new, single-stream facility to process their material for many years to come. Machinex will be a great partner to help them meet the demands of their rapidly growing population."
York County is in the Piedmont region, between the Broad River and the Catawba River. It is home to nine municipalities, including Fort Mill, South Carolina, one of the fastest growing communities in this region.