IFAT 2024

Highlights at IFAT 2024

Coverstory recovery 5/2017

Processing WIP slag at Heros Sluiskil – clean conveying with ActiveCLEAN

Processing slag from waste incineration plants (WIP), that means drying, crushing, screening, sorting, classifying – and conveying the slag. Despite drying in air, slag from waste incineration plants...

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Producing low copper shred for steel mills

A method for upgrading shredded scrap has been developed and optimized using the Eriez® Shred1® Ballistic Separator coupled with magnetic separation equipment. The resulting upgraded shredded scrap...

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Issue 06/2018 Maximum recovery

Product distributor replaces vibratory chute and prevents clogging

The conveyor feed recently developed by Goudsmit Magnetics consists of a conveyor belt feed that is supplied by a product distributor. This prevents clogging of the vibratory chute during the...

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Issue 02/2021 New site

Production capacity for plastics recycling systems doubled

The Austrian machine manufacturer Starlinger & Co. GmbH has been producing plastics recycling systems from the recoSTAR PET series at its new site in Schwerin/Germany, since the end of August...

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Issue 05/2019

Production capacity increased

At the beginning of 2019, a new processing plant with 6000 m² of factory space was put into operation at company Hubert Eing Kunststoffverwertung GmbH at their site in Gescher. The goal is to process...

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Issue 01/2018 Removal of foreign particles

Production of high quality organic material with the UniSort Black from STEINERT

The operators of composting facilities are faced with a dilemma. On the one hand, customers are demanding compost of increasingly higher quality. On the other, organic waste contains a steadily rising...

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Issue 05/2019

Productive, turnkey system solutions

Three years have passed since the last K, the world’s premier fair for the plastics and rubber industry, and everything has changed. Apart from the media attacks on plastic products, the industry also...

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Issue 03/2020 Importance of secondary raw materials early recognized

Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. em. Gert Schubert, TU Bergakademie Freiberg University of Resources, reaches 80

More than 50 years ago, Prof. Heinrich Schubert, director of the Institute of Mechanical Process Engineering and Mineral Processing (MVTAT) at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg University of Resources,...

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Issue 05/2020 New VARISORT+ sorting system

Profitably closing the plastics cycle

A majority of the plastic that exists will be used just once and will not be recycled. In Europe, only about 30 % of the plastic produced in 2017 went on to be recycled. Enormous amounts of plastic...

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Project Re:Claim nominated for Plastics Industry Awards

Project Re:Claim, a joint venture between the Salvation Army Trading Company and Project Plan B, has been nominated for the Plastics Industry Awards 2024 in the "Recycler of the Year" category. Using...

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