Reiling Group employs Sesotec's K9 separation technology

For more than 100 years, the Reiling Group, headquartered in Marienfeld, Germany, has collected and recovered recyclable materials. With 12 German and four international locations, the recycling company provides a variety of services, including glass, PET (polyethylene terephthalate), wood and electronic scrap recycling; paper, file and data media destruction/archiving; municipal services; and refuse-derived fuel.

The company is one of Germany's leading glass recycling specialists, processing virtually all types of container and flat glass, as well as glass from photovoltaic modules.

The Reiling Group has been using several generations of Sesotec sorting systems supplied by KRS Recycling Systems GmbH, a Bavarian company specialising in recycling systems for the hollow and flat glass industry.

As its head office and biggest facility, Reiling Marienfeld was one of the first companies to use the new Sesotec K9 systems to sort cullet as small as 3 millimetres by colour. The result is a considerable quality improvement in the recycling of fine, hollow and flat glass, with high throughput capacities, Sesotec writes in a news release.

At this facility all of the rejected material from the main systems is processed once again to recover high-quality end products and to considerably minimise the total amount of waste and loss of glass, the company says. After several drying processes, the material is screened and is then sent through K9 separators that are divided on two sorting lines. 

"With these K9 systems, both the quantity and the quality of the end product could be clearly increased,” says Marc Uphoff, managing director of the Reiling Group.

The latest installation at the Reiling plant in Osterweddingen, Germany, comprises a coarse and medium grain line without drying equipment. Spektrum Basic Sesotec sorting systems are used to separate CSP (ceramic, stone, porcelain) and metals.

The Reiling Group also uses Sesotec sorters in plastics recycling. At the company’s plants in Marienfeld and Hamm-Uentrop, Germany, Sesotec Flake Purifier systems are used to sort PET flakes. Equipped with metal search coils for the detection of metals and true-colour sensors for the separation of wrong colours, these sorting systems are designed to reduce the loss of good material.

More information on Sesotec is available at www.sesotec.com.