Stena installing Metso shears in Sweden

Sweden-based Stena Recycling AB has installed the first of what it says will be five high-capacity Metso shears. The first shear has been installed at the company’s facility in Skövde, Sweden.

 

Over the next two years four more shears will be installed at different Stena locations in Sweden, providing the company “with the capacity to process larger volumes than before [so] more raw materials can be delivered to foundries and steel mills in Sweden and other markets,” the company says in a news release.

 

“This will give a great boost to our production capabilities; these new high-quality, energy efficient machines from Metso are the best in Europe,” says Staffan Persson, president of Stena Recycling, which has more than 160 facilities in Scandinavia and Poland. “In short, this provides an injection of power to our recycling capacity in Sweden.”

 

Stena Recycling and Metso have entered into a partnership “to ensure optimized use of the equipment at each facility,” according to the Stena news release.

 

The new shears will offer a “significantly higher capacity” than the “several decades old” models that they are replacing, according to Stena. In Skövde, capacity has increased by 400 percent, the company says. The overall increase will be in the range of 150,000 to 200,000 metric tons per year by the time all five machines are operating.

 

“Increased capacity prepares us for the future and means that we can handle larger volumes for our customers,” says Persson. “We can return more raw material back into circulation for the manufacturing of new products. With annual production reaching several hundred thousand metric tons, metal recycling offers huge environmental benefits.”