The development, on the dockside at Liverpool, is part of a bid by EMR to enhance its role as the UK's largest metal recycler ahead of recycling targets for vehicles and electronic equipment.
The shredder – a ZZ Zerdirator – has been manufactured in Germany by Metso Lindemann and is the largest ever built by the company. The parts of the shredder have just been delivered to Liverpool with the machine due to be up and running by the end of the year.
The Zerdirator has a driving power of 10,000hp, a hammer circle diameter of three metres and a feeder chute three metres wide and its rotor, equipped with 20 hammers, can process over 250 tonnes of vehicles, electrical waste and heavy scrap every hour.
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Colin Iles, managing director of EMR, said. “The move underlines EMR’s commitment to continued investment and strengthens our national network, helping us move toward the higher recycling targets set by new legislation.”
He added that the Zerdirator extracts clean, dense fragmentised steel at faster rates and greater efficiency than ever before, ensuring the enhanced separation of other materials downstream.
Eight heavy-duty vehicles were needed to transport the bulky parts of the 540-tonne shredder across Europe to Zeebrugee, where the pieces were shipped directly to EMR's deep sea export facility at Liverpool.
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