Recycling Case Studies
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Case Study: Mixed Broken Glass...
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A Midwest recycling center had placed an air-knife unit to remove paper from their mixed broken glass, but found that many items contained in the end product still contained contaminations such as plastic caps, aluminum cans, and plastics. This company came to General Kinematics to look for an air-knife solution to provide a cleaner glass stream.
April 19th, 2011 | < 1
Case Study: Recycling System Improvements
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A regional U.S. recycler required a more efficient processing solution for separation of construction and demolition waste. Their existing system could not meet the throughput or reliability demands of the incoming C&D waste stream.
April 19th, 2011 | 2 min Read
Case Study: OSB Product Improvement
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Customer required a process to separate the low grade lumber "fines" and smaller pieces of wood chips from the more desirable large OSB (Oriented Strand Board) strands to increase the quality and strength of their finished product.
April 19th, 2011 | < 1
Case Study: OCC Recovery
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A waste recycling facility was looking to recover mainly OCC (Old Corrugated Cardboard) from his waste stream. They saw the value in recovering this product, but were presently manually sorting the material off of the floor on a daily basis. Even with floor sorting, the customer was able to recover in the neighborhood of 10-12 bales per day.
April 19th, 2011 | 2 min Read