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ASR sorting plant starts up.


Salyp NV of Ypres, Belgium, has announced the start-up of its auto shredder residue residue n. in a will, the assets of the estate of a person who has died with a will (died testate) which are left after all specific gifts have been made. Typical language: "I leave the rest, residue and remainder [or just residue] of my estate to my grandchildren.  (ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) Using voice recognition to replace keypad entry for telephone voice menus. Typically used to speak the digits 0 through 9 insted of keying them, ASR systems may be able to recognize a limited vocabulary. See voice recognition and AVSR. ) sorting factory.

The ASR sorting line is based on various patent-protected technologies and can extract plastics, ferrous ferrous (fĕr`əs), iron in the +2 valence state.


Containing or having to do with iron. The difference between ferrous and ferric is the number of valence electrons they contain (ferrous contains two and ferric contains three), which
, aluminum, stainless steel stainless steel: see steel.
stainless steel

Any of a family of alloy steels usually containing 10–30% chromium. The presence of chromium, together with low carbon content, gives remarkable resistance to corrosion and heat.
, copper and foam from ASR.

In one shift, Salyp processes and recycles up to 50 metric tons of ASR daily, creating a material split of 20 percent metal-rich streams, 20 percent plastics streams and 50 percent clean energy substitutes.

Salyp's ASR sorting plant offers potential customers the chance to examine the performance, economics and feasibility of its system. Salyp plans to integrate its European plants in compliance with the EU's End-of-Life Vehicle Directives.
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Title Annotation:Scrap Industry News; auto shredder residue
Publication:Recycling Today
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:4EUBL
Date:Apr 1, 2004
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