Whitham Mills wins second UAE contract
Waste management machinery designer and manufacturer, Whitham Mills, has won a contract to provide a state-of-the-art GB-1111FS baler and accompanying feed conveyor equipment to the Gulf emirate of Ajman.
The engineering firm – which recently reported a 35 per cent increase in year-on-year turnover – has been appointed by AIMS Group (Ajman Investment and Marketing Services) to export and install the machinery at Ajman’s Material Recovery Facility (MRF).
The MRF is capable of processing up to 800 tonnes of municipal solid waste (MSW) per day.
The contract win is Whitham Mills’ second in the Gulf in less than a year, having previously been appointed to deliver its industry-leading recycling machinery to neighbouring Ras al-Khaimah.
Supplied by a 12,000lb feed conveyor, the GB-1111FS is fully automatic and able to process up to 50 tonnes per hour of MSW. It can compress and wrap bales of up to 1500kg, with dimensions of 1100mm x 1100mm x 1500mm.
Blue Angel certificate recognises Plastic Omnium’s SULO wheeled bins
Wheeled bins made by SULO, part of Plastic Omnium Environment, have received coveted Blue Angel environmental certification.
The range of two-wheeled and four-wheeled waste bins have been recognised for their low-impact environmental credentials, including the use of 80% post-consumer recycled material during their production.
The certification was awarded by the German Environment Agency. The award of the Blue Angel certificate criteria includes annual assessments of the products’ material composition, corporate standards such as staff qualifications, quality management processes and environmental protection.
Commenting on the award, Richard Gregg, managing director of Plastic Omnium Urban Systems, which distributes SULO products to the British market, said: “We are delighted that our environmental commitment has been recognised by the award of Blue Angel certification.”
Machinex and RDT deliver Townsville MRF
Recycling equipment firm Machinex, in collaboration with RDT – its partner and distributor in Oceania – has supplied its first complete system in Australia that has been in operation since early summer.
The new Townsville MRF – located in the North Queensland region – was built and is being operated by Re.Group, an Australian company that specialises in recycling and the recovery of resources from waste.
RDT, which is the engineering arm of Re.Group, is based in Queensland but works with leading equipment suppliers from around the world and selects the best technology for each recycling project.
The single stream system, which process 15 tonnes of recyclables per hour, incorporates some of the most recent sorting technologies such as different types of discs screens; a ballistic separator; magnetic separators; and an optical sorter.
There is also a glass processing circuit that uses Krysteline implosion technology to turn bottles into sand.
Re.Group has installed a drying unit at Townsville that destroys residual sugars and odors on glass and allows the glass sand product to also be used in the higher value markets such as sandblasting and pool filtration.
Smurfit Kappa sees success with HAAS
Smurfit Kappa in Neuburg an der Donau, in Germany, is recognising the benefits of a channel baling press from HSM.
At the corrugated cardboard plant, the “HSM VK 7215” has been pressing cutting waste into bales weighing more than half a tonne since September 2014.
According to HAAS, in the past, one bale of cutting waste at Smurfit Kappa in Neuburg weighed 380 kg. Today it is 520 kg – for the same size of bale.
The company said this is made possible by the high compression capacity of the HSM VK 7215 baling press.
HAAS reports that this has ‘significant advantages’ for the transportation of bales to the paper factory for recycling.
“The under-utilisation of the lorries is now finally a thing of the past for us,” said Rüdiger Graf, operations manager at Smurfit Kappa in Neuburg an der Donau.
Although the VK 7215 is supposed to produce bales weighing 480 kg, the cardboard bales in Neuburg are now registering 520 kg on the scales. “These are all economic advantages,” Mr Graf added.
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