Wendt Offers Stainless Recovery Technology

According to Wendt Corp., several types of metals that other eddy current machines and pickers might miss can be mined from mixed streams, including stainless steel, copper windings, insulated and bare copper wire.

“This new technology will recover lost revenue from your waste streams and promises to be a significant advancement to the shredding industry, like the introduction of eddy current separators in the 1990s,” says Tom Wendt of Wendt Corp.

“The process is the next logical step for nonferrous downstream systems, and picks up where eddy current separators leave off,” he continues. Rather than using magnetic strength, this technology utilizes a high frequency magnetic sensor to detect metals with a high-speed computer that fires an array of compressed air nozzles to eject metals from the waste stream.

The technology has been created by Separation Systems Engineering GmbH (SSE), located in Wedel, Germany. Since 1988, the SSE group of companies has sold over 200 separators to a variety of industries in 15 countries, including the U.S. Of the 200-plus separators, SSE has sold more than 40 of them to scrap metals recyclers since targeting the industry in 2000, according to Wendt.

“SSE’s technology can be easily integrated into current nonferrous metal recycling systems and can detect and eject all metals, including all grades of stainless steel and nonferrous metals from the waste stream of an eddy current separator producing a mixed metals process flow.