Steinert, Stadler Supply New German Facility

Germany's Korn Recycling GmbH is working with Steinert and Stadler to build a new recycling facility with advanced sorting and processing technology.

Germany’s Korn Recycling GmbH is working with equipment suppliers to set up what the companies are billing as one of the world’s most technologically advanced recycling and waste processing facilities.

Korn’s facility in the south German town of Albstadt suffered from a major fire in 2009. The company is subsequently rebuilding on the site with the goal of producing “high-grade, quality-assured residue derived fuel (RDF) for the European energy sector and of making organic and metallic raw materials available to [industrial consumers].”

According to a news release issued jointly by Korn and by Germany-based equipment companies Steinert and Stadler, “The facility is characterized by high quality and technological variety in the area of sorting and processing technology, and may justly be described as the world’s most advanced facility in the area of commercial, bulky and construction site waste sorting.”

Steinert (www.steinert.de) is supplying most of the sorting technology, which includes magnet technology, sensor sorting systems and X-ray sorting technology.

Stadler (www.w-stadler.de) is responsible for the construction of the plant and is supplying the conveyor technology, the structural steelwork and ballistic separators, according to the news release.

Equipment supplied by Cologne-based Steinert includes six overhead magnetic separators, 10 UniSort NIR sorting systems, an ISS (induction sorting system) for two parallel product streams and two XSS (X-ray sorting systems).

Altshausen-based Stadler is installing several of its STT5000_101 ballistic separators for separating the incoming material stream, as well as conveyors and structural steel components. When the plant is running at full capacity, its capabilities will include:

• throughput of 25 metric tons per hour, or 100,000 metric tons annually;
• the ability to accept commercial waste and scrap, bulky items, production scrap and construction scrap and waste;
• a plant that 8,060 square meters in area; and
• end products that include RDF, ferrous scrap, nonferrous scrap, wood, scrap paper grades including paperboard and cardboard, plastic scrap.

More information on the project and on Korn Recycling can be found at www.korn-recycling.de.