Steinert US, headquartered in Erlanger, Ky., recently has completed the installation of three 96-inch ISS machines, each equipped with the Steinert Super Sensor, in the downstream of an 800 horsepower shredder. According to Steinert US, the configuration is designed to allow the company to recover more than 90 percent of all the wire in the post eddy current stream (ECS).
After preparation with Steinert dual stage magnetic pre-separators (MRB) and ECS, the ECS-waste is fed to the first induction sorting system (ISS), ejecting virtually all remaining metals. Due to the high sorting efficiency, the first ISS does not require a scavenger-loop in which an additional machine would be looking for missed metals in the waste. Unnecessary investment and operation costs are eliminated in the first stage by keeping the number of machines to a minimum.
With the waste from the first ISS free of any metals and taken out of the process, the first pass metal product cascades onto the second ISS, which separates stainless steel and other remaining metals away from the flock that still carries the wires, producing shredded, nonferrous sensor-sorted scrap, predominantly stainless steel.
The third ISS yields a copper wire product that includes the required more than 90 percent of the overall copper wire to be found in the feed to the system. Steinert US says with its machines users are able to reclaim all the wire in the process, whether they are insulated or bare copper wires and regardless of the color of the insulation.
In addition to the maximum ICW recovery design, Steinert recently introduced the 3D-ISS combo sorter which is primarily being used to upgrade the quality of the wire product if maximum purity is preferred over maximum recovery.
More information can be found at steinertus.com.
Steinert Installs Wire Recovery Systems
Configuration designed to recover more than 90 percent of the wire in the post-eddy-current stream.