A record 125,000 visitors from throughout the waste, recycling and waste water sector gathered in Munich last week to attend the worlds largest recycling trade fair, IFAT ENTSORGA 2012.
The event, which is held every two years, attracted over 15,000 more visitors than it did in 2010 and featured 2,939 exhibitors from 54 countries -up from 2,730 two years ago. 60 companies from the UK were amongst those exhibiting.
On May 6 German Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Environment Ministry, Katherina Reiche, participated in the opening of the show, which ran from Monday May 7 until Friday (May 11).
She said: IFAT ENTSORGA is the international showcase for innovation and services in a area of growing geopolitical relevance. It highlights the close links between high environmental standards and economic success.
‘Remarkable’
Dr Johannes F. Kirchhoff, chairman of the IFAT ENTSORGA advisory board and managing partner of FAUN, said: IFAT ENTSORGA 2012 is remarkable for its large visitor numbers – significantly more guests than at the previous trade fair in 2010. The international customer profile also experienced outstanding growth.
The exhibition space this year covered 215,000 square meters. Different zones included: Refuse collection and transport; vehicles and superstructures; services; refuse treatment/recycling and utilisation of raw materials; and, landfills/generating energy from waste materials. Special events were held such as trucks in action and a historical exhibition on 100 years of municipal cleaning.
A special area, funded by UK Trade and Investments, promoted 20 businesses from Great Britain including Advanced Plasma Power (see below) and Leafield Environmental Ltd.
The next IFAT ENTSORGA will take place from May 5 to 9, 2014.
Exhibitors
Below is a snapshot of some of the companies, products and services on show at the event:
ADVANCED PLASMA POWER
Advanced Plasma Power was showcasing its Gasplasma energy-from-waste technology which turns waste into power and building materials at the IFAT exhibition. The technology combines plasma expertise from APPs sister company Tetronics with gasification technology and produces high quality fuel gas and plasma rock. The company has a demonstrator plant in operation in Swindon.
BMH TECHNOLOGY
Finland-based BMH Technology Oy specialises in the delivery of solid recovered fuel (SRF) production plants and solid fuel handling systems for power plants. The company was profiling its Tyrannosaurus plant at IFAT ENSORGA for which one line can process as much as 1,200 tonnes of municipal solid waste each day. The plant uses theTyrannosaurus shredder which the company says is the biggest and smartest shredder in the world, weighing up to 90 tonnes.
ERIEZ MAGNETICS EUROPE
Caerphilly-based Eriez Magnetics Europe introduced its new Shred1 Separator which uses ballistics to separate ferrous metal from mixed metals and waste material in the magnetic drum in scrap processing lines. This separator produces a high value ferrous stream, mixed metals and heavy steel and light material fraction. The company also exhibited its FinesSort metal recovery system which recover materials less than 25mm in dimeter and thereby aids reduction in materials sent to landfill.
KOMPTECH
It was a double debut for Komptech at the Munich show with the launch of its Chippo Cdt mobile chipper and Stonefax stone separator. The Chippo 5010 is a truck-mounted swivelling mobile wood chipper which is powered by the truck engine. The Stonefax separator meanwhile separates out the biomass fraction from shredded waste, achieving 80% efficiency. This makes it possible to make fuel out of biomass that was formerly deemed unsuitable, risky or financially unrewarding due to its high stone content.
LM GROUP
The LM Group combines three companies specialising in recycling technology: pressing equipment specialist L&M; treatment and sorting plant company Sutco; and, baling press producer unoTech. The companies are brought together under the banner Collecting Sorting Pressing. At the IFAT show, unotech displayed its UPAMAT-V series of baling presses as well as its UPAMAT-H series baling presses. Both achieve cost-effective baling and help save money on transport space.
METSO
Finland-based engineering and technology company Metso launched its M&J EtaFineShred 6500 at the IFAT exhibition, which incorporates the expertise of Swiss company Holzmag which Metso took over in 2011. The shredder delivers a homogenous output, keeps dust to a minimum and creates no heat. The company also displayed its next-generation scrap shears, Eta Cut II.
MVV UMWELT
German waste treatment plant operator MVV Umwelt is one of the top players in the German market and was amongst the exhibitors. It was profiling, among other things, its recent receipt of planning permission from Plymouth city council for an energy from waste facility. The company said that its 50 years of experience in the sector meant that it could pass on its knowledge about planning and operating EfW plants to its customers.
TANA TECHNOLOGIES
Finnish company Tana demonstrated its waste shredders, chippers and landfill compactors at the show. The TANA Shark waste shredder enables production of small, even-sized particles with only one machine in one run, resulting in fuel savings. The new TANA BioChipper meanwhile delivers homogenous particles and suits any mobile platform. The company has also developed ProTrack system which can be included in all the machines it sells, to provide real time operating data such as fuel consumption and capacity statistics.
TERBERG MATEC UK
A low voltage, low-level electric automatic bin lift was on show from Terberg Matec UK. The OmniDEL is designed to be compatible with future developments in electric & hybrid refuse collection vehicle technologies as well as diesel powered RCVs and requires only 24 volt chassis electrical power for operation. The OmniDEAL is also extremely quiet, making longer collection hours more acceptable.
TITECH
Titech launched its next-generation sensor-based sorting system,Titech autosort 4, which can recover a wide range of recovered materials such as plastic and paper from different waste streams. This is the first near-infrared scan system not to require an external light source. Instead, it incorporates Flying Beam technology which reduces power consumption and maintenance time. This means that it illuminates only the area of its conveyor belt being scanned, creating light energy savings of up to 70%.
VEHICLE WEIGHING SOLUTIONS
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Reading-based Vehicle Weighing Solutions provides on-board vehicle weighing service for small vans through to articulated waste vehicles and exhibited for the first time at IFAT ENSORGA last week. The company hoped that by exhibiting at the show, it will increase its presence across Europe, particularly in the North.
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