Dutch glass recycler to expand

Maltha Glass Recycling plans on investing more than €4.5 million for new line.

Maltha Glassrecycling, a glass recycling company headquartered in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, has announced plans to rebuild and upgrade its recycling facility in Heijningen, Netherlands. The company says it will invest more than €4.5 million (US$5.1 million) on the project which is expected to begin by March 2015 and to be completed in several months.Maltha glass recycling

When the expansion is complete, the company reports, it will increase the amount of raw material recovered from waste glass by 11 percent and improve the quality of the recycled cullet. The company says that it processes more than 1 million metric tons of glass per year.

“It is important that we continuously improve the quality of our product. For that reason we are now modifying the entire production process at our factory in Heijningen,” says Tich Vanduren, director of Maltha Glassrecycling. “Glass cullet is the perfect raw material for new glass. It is infinitely recyclable in its entirety, without any loss of quality. Also, using glass cullet in the furnace means that less energy is used, significantly reducing the CO2 emissions of our glass furnaces."

Vanduren says the company uses the latest recycling technologies and also incorporate a drying step into the process, which increases the recycling percentage by 11 percent and improves end product quality.

The expansion project includes replacing most of the sorting and separation machinery with newer technologies and machines. “As a recycler it goes without saying that we are investigating which machines or parts can be given a new life. We will be reusing the conveyor belts in the new facility, for example. The new machines make it possible—by using a new drying system and the incorporation of an additional sorting step—to remove ceramic, stone and porcelain contamination even more effectively," says Vanduren. "We are also investing in new machines that recognize leaded glass and heat-resistant glass such as Pyrex."

Vanduren says the company's process ensures that glass is refined from up to 10 kilos of stony contaminants per metric tons of waste glass to a maximum of just 25 grams per metric tons of clean cullet. "That is a top achievement when you realize how contaminated the glass sometimes is upon arrival," he says.

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Maltha Glassrecycling is a subsidiary of the Dutch waste management company Van Gansewinkel Groep.

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