On behalf of the Belgian recycling business SITEL, Eggersmann Anlagenbau has completed a light packaging waste (LPW) processing facility in the province of Liège. The processing facility will separate various recyclable elements like aluminium, HDPE, or PE films, apart from separating different PET colours in fractions.
The new Liège factory has a throughput of 14.5 tonnes per hour. This equates to processing 223 m3 of garbage each hour at a density of 65 kilogrammes per cubic metre. Finally, there will be 17 isolated fractions with purities ranging from 93 per cent to 97 per cent. At the same time, individual grade losses will be limited to 2 per cent to 5 per cent.
"With this investment, SITEL has taken exactly the right step into the future. The quantities of LPW continue to increase, while at the same time, the awareness for a real recycling of plastics is growing. Naturally, this also increases the demands on the sorting plants. In short: ever larger quantities have to be separated into ever more precise fractions. We are very grateful that we were able to realize this project for SITEL," said Laurence Dauchy, sales and project manager at the Eggersmann Anlagenbau.
The system will identify clear, blue, various coloured and opaque PET varieties and classify them into pure fractions, among other things. More thermoformed PET-Trays are also identified and classified individually.
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