Recycling systems.ACTION INDUSTRIES, INC inc - /ink/ increment, i.e. increase by one. Especially used by assembly programmers, as many assembly languages have an "inc" mnemonic. Antonym: dec. . Systems from Munchy Ltd. of the U.K. consist of reclaim extruder, filtering device, die-face pelletizer for air- or water-cooled pellets, and manual and automatic feeding systems. Handle all thermoplastic A polymer material that turns to liquid when heated and becomes solid when cooled. There are more than 40 types of thermoplastics, including acrylic, polypropylene, polycarbonate and polyethylene. film, sheet, nonwovens, bottles, flake, and blocked-bag cut-outs from 50 to 2200 lb/hr. Washing and drying systems available in sizes to 2500 lb/hr. New P65 Vented Mini Munchy repelletizing extrusion system reclaims film that has a high percentage of ink coverage The amount of ink used by a laser-class or inkjet printer depends on the type of document printed. A vendor's estimate of ink cost is typically based on a business document with a rather low 3 to 5% coverage. If you print full pages, the estimates are not going to be accurate. , high moisture levels, or additives that can react during processing. The 132-lb/hr system comes in air-cooled and water-cooled versions, uses a 16:1 L/D L/D Labor and Delivery L/D Lethal Dose L/D Lift/Drag (ratio) L/D Low Dynamic L/D Limiter/Discriminator L/D Loading / Discharging Rate (shipping) screw, and draws 29 kw. AEC/HYDRECLAIM Specializes in in-line direct-recycle film-scrap reclaim systems, repelletizing systems, and gravimetric blending systems. AMERICAN KUHNE INC. Complete recycling systems from Kuhne Anlagenbau GmbH sort, wash, filter, and extrude extrude /ex·trude/ (ek-strldbomacd´) 1. to force out, or to occupy a position distal to that normally occupied. 2. in dentistry, to occupy a position occlusal to that normally occupied. 100% recycled film or sheet in a one-step process. (Also distributed by O/K International Corp.) AUSTRONIC INSTRUMENTS INC. Indumat recycling system for film, tape, monofilaments, bags, etc. A shredder, which preheats the material while cutting it into small pieces, is linked directly to the extruder. Preheating material saves half the horsepower in subsequent extrusion. Coarse filter ahead of the double slide-plate fine filter in the extruder removes large contaminants and thus prolongs life of fine filter. Hot die-face or strand pelletizing Pelletizing or pelletising is the process of compressed or molding of product into the shape of a pellet. A large range of different products are pelletized including chemicals, iron ore, animal compound feed, and more. completes the process. Outputs to 2500 lb/hr. BARTEX RECYCLING Lines from Sikoplast GmbH are custom-built for most plastics. Use proprietary grinding and drying technology and a conical single-screw extruder connected to a polycondensation reactor, which upgrades PET's I.V. from 0.66 to 0.80. Also systems for recycling scrap into blown film, pipe, or profile. LOUIS P. BATSON INC. Revive systems from Sant' Andrea Novara of Italy process mixed resins contaminated contaminated, v 1. made radioactive by the addition of small quantities of radioactive material. 2. made contaminated by adding infective or radiographic materials. 3. an infective surface or object. with 5-20% paper, 5-8% aluminum, 510% wood, and 1-5% organic matter. Systems mix and extrude a narrow sheet 0.250.5 in. thick, which is hot-melt granulated gran·u·late v. gran·u·lat·ed, gran·u·lat·ing, gran·u·lates v.tr. 1. To form into grains or granules. 2. To make rough and grainy. v.intr. for injection or extrusion. Includes shredder, granulator, 30:1 L/D extruder with 12 temperature zones, rolls, Ph-neutralizing water tank, hot-melt granulator, cyclone dryer, and deduster. Processes 220-990 lb/hr, depending on density. JOHN BROWN RECYCLING SYSTEMS KVAERNER U.S. INC. Complete recycling systems for post-consumer PE film and PET or HDPE HDPE abbr. high-density polyethylene bottles. Produce clean flake or pellets at 1000 to 3000 lb/hr. Include bale breakers, granulators, materials handling, and prewash, hot-wash and hydrocyclone separation systems. Also complete extrusion, polymer filtration, and pelletizing systems (strand or water-ring), plus system-wide control packages. ECO-FOCUS, INC. License Partek Corp.'s HDPE recycling line, which has a proprietary "single-pass" granulation granulation /gran·u·la·tion/ (-shun) 1. the division of a hard substance into small particles. 2. the formation in wounds of small, rounded masses of tissue during healing; also the mass so formed. system that produces uniform square flake with minimal fines. Two granulators each process up to 2500 lb/hr. A bale breaker and rotating trommel trom·mel n. A revolving cylindrical sieve used for screening or sizing rock and ore. [German, from Middle High German trummel, diminutive of trumme, drum, remove loose caps and dirt. After granulation comes an enclosed, high-shear, cylindrical washing tank. Next, a hydrocyclone removes "heavies" like PVC PVC: see polyvinyl chloride. PVC in full polyvinyl chloride Synthetic resin, an organic polymer made by treating vinyl chloride monomers with a peroxide. , PET, metal, and dirt. After spin drying, kinetic-energy scrubbers remove labels and glue. Dust and fines are removed by two aspirators. Flake is metered into an extruder with a vacuum pump that draws off moisture and volatiles. Melt is filtered with rotary screen changers and water-ring pelletized. EREMA NORTH AMERICA INC. Complete repelletizing systems for in-house, post-industrial or post-consumer plastics recycling. Patented "warm-feed" system predensifies, size reduces and prewarms scrap before it enters the extruder. This minimizes heat history, resulting in low-material degradation. Recycling systems include automatic back-flushing screen changers or continuous "laser" filter systems, depending on the type and amount of contamination in the scrap. Systems available for PE, PP, PA, PET and most other materials at rates from 200 to 3000 lb/hr. GALA INDUSTRIES, INC. Recycle systems include equipment to wash, rinse and dry recycle materials removing dirt, loose paper, and chemical solutions. Rates from 10 to 5000 lb/hr. Centrifugal dryers process up to 100,000 lb/hr of material. Underwater pelletizers also available to pelletize reclaimed thermoplastic materials thermoplastic materials materials used in making casts for broken limbs. Malleable when warmed in hot water or heated with a hairdrier, very quick setting and very strong, e.g. Hexcelite. . (See ad p. 164.) HAFNER INDUSTRIES, INC. (HII HII Health Improvement Institute HII Health Information Infrastructure HII Harrington Investments Inc (Napa, CA) HII Hidden Immunity Idol (Survivor TV show) HII Lake Havasu City, AZ, USA ) Proprietary chemical technologies treat and reclaim waste plastic mixtures. Most systems are closed-loop and handle two or more plastics such as HDPE, PVC, PET, PP, PUR, and PS, with or without water, oils, paper, metal, and glass. Systems produce plastics comparable to their virgin counterparts. Offers to license its technology or to form joint ventures. HUTCHEON EQUIPMENT CORP. Used and rebuilt sorting, granulating, washing, and drying systems for post-consumer and post-industrial recycling. HYDRECLAIM INC. See AEC/HydReclaim. ITALIAN TRADE COMMISSION Information on Italian-built systems for scrap reclaiming and reprocessing Reprocessing may refer to:
MAGNETIC SEPARATION SYSTEMS BottleSort system for commingled post-consumer plastic containers uses optical sensors to segregate seg·re·gate v. seg·re·gat·ed, seg·re·gat·ing, seg·re·gates v.tr. 1. To separate or isolate from others or from a main body or group. See Synonyms at isolate. 2. whole bottles into three sub-categories: PET and PVC, unpigmented HDPE and PP, and mixed-color HDPE. X-ray sensor subsorts PVC. Elpac system removes metallic contaminants from chopped plastic. Detects aluminum and lead contaminants down to 1/500 gram. Removal efficiency is over 98% with less than 1% product loss. TPVC system detects PVC in mixed plastic bottles. In PET recycling, PVC contamination typically reduced from 1000 ppm to less than 10 ppm. M.A. INDUSTRIES, INC. Complete systems for post-consumer PET and HDPE containers in capacities from 1000 to 3000 lb/hr. Components can be sold individually: granulators, bale breakers, spin dryers, trommels, air conveying/classification systems, float/sink classifiers, PET crystallizers, rotary hot-air dryers, and flake washers. MERRITT DAVIS Davis, city (1990 pop. 46,209), Yolo co., central Calif.; settled in the 1850s, inc. 1917. It is an education center with light industry; machinery, processed foods, and computer equipment are produced. The extensive Univ. CORP. Polycycle Year 2000 line recycling system for film bales, rolls, slabs, and small purgings allows one-step size reduction without a granulator. New shredder design feeds a single-screw extruder and pelletizer using hooks to grab and cut material and a ram to feed shredded material to extruder. Extruder can be 3.5- to 10-in. diam. with 48:1 L/D and optional venting. Systems can be tailored for throughputs from 600 to 10,000 lb/hr. MODERN MACHINERY OF BEAVERTON Cryogenic cleaning system uses liquid nitrogen and water for flotation/separation. No soaps or caustic chemicals. Ground material is fed into the cryogenic chamber, where its temperature is reduced to -200 F. Brittle material is metered into a high-speed impacter where contaminants are drawn off by aspiration. Clean material is auger-fed to the float/sink process that separates PET from HDPE. Hot-air spin drying is followed by screening to remove PVC and fines. Capacities of 1000 and 2000 lb/hr. MUNCHY LTD. See Action Industries, Inc. NEW HERBOLD INC. Turnkey systems for recycling PE film and PE, PET, or PVC bottles. Washing systems treat soiled, mixed waste. Hydrocyclone system separates by density. Can be added to existing Herbold recycling lines. O/K INTERNATIONAL CORP. See American Kuhne Inc. POLYMER SYSTEMS INC. Systems for post-consumer recycling include shredders, granulators, conveyors, and evacuation systems with fines classification. PROCESSING TECHNOLOGIES, INC./PTi PTi Trident IWS See iPlanet Web Server. line of washing and recycling systems for post-industrial and post-consumer applications. Systems available from bale breakers through materials-handling and silage silage (sī`lĭj) or ensilage (ĕn`səlĭj), succulent, moist feed made by storing a green crop in a silo. The crop most used for silage is corn; others are sorghum, sunflowers, legumes, and grass. systems. May include primary size reduction, air classification and aspiration, intensive washing, float separation and/or hydrocyclone, flake drying, water treatment and solids removal, materials-handling and conveying, storage silos, and custom control systems. (See ad p. 143.) RECOVERY PROCESSES INT'L, INC. Specializes in design and full operational installations for recycling industrial and post-consumer plastics. Installations include PET, HDPE, and polypropylene systems to 4000 lb/hr. Technologies include PET/PVC separations by froth flotation technique. SOREMA S.p.A. Turnkey systems for recycling PE, PP, PS, ABS, nylon, PVC and PET at 550 to 10,000 lb/hr. Proprietary washing, separation, and rinsing cycles use hot and cold water. Washing systems separate contaminants such as incompatible plastics, paper, wood, natural fibers, ferrous and nonferrous metals, organics, silica, clay, and grease. Special direct-feed extruders have automatic force-feed hoppers, feed bushings, specially designed screws, degassing degassing (dēgas´ing), adj related to degasification, the process by which dissolved gas is removed from water or other liquid solutions. systems, and automatic screen changers with pressure control. SRC (SouRCe) Contrast with DST, which is an abbreviation of "destination." VISION Designs/manufactures machine vision systems capable of separating plastics by resin and color. Installations include flake sorters for separating colored and clear PET, caps from NHDPE milk jugs, and mixed color HDPE color into individual color streams. Whole bottle sorting systems can create high-purity streams of clear PET, green PET, NHDPE, HDPE, and PVC from mixed streams. Flake sorters can exceed throughputs of 10,000 lb/hr with better than 98% removal efficiency and less than 1% good product loss. Bottle sorters can handle up to 12,000 lb/hr with similar efficiencies. STERLING SYSTEMS DIV. STERLING BLOWER CO. Systems for reclaiming post-consumer or post-industrial materials such as PET, HDPE and PVC bottles, carpet scrap, cable chop, fires, and automotive scrap. Handle up to 10,000 lb/hr and use various methods of washing and separation such as sorting, elutriation elutriation /elu·tri·a·tion/ (e-loo?tre-a´shun) purification of a substance by dissolving it in a solvent and pouring off the solution, thus separating it from the undissolved foreign material. , agitation, and hydrocyclones. STYROMELT INC. Styromelt PD2000 plastic densification machine processes EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) A PostScript file format used to transfer a graphic image between applications and platforms. EPS files contain PostScript code as well as an optional preview image in TIFF, WMF, PICT or EPSI, the latter being an ASCII-only format. waste at up to 20 lb/hr. Close temperature control prevents burning but reduces more than 95% of the volume of EPS foam products. Melted EPS is cast into bricks and ejected for recycling or use as an efficient fuel. Three to four garbage bags of EPS waste, or 1000 foam cups, make a 2-lb brick in about 3 min. PD2000 machine measures 81 x 45 x 23 in. Smaller model DP1000 can process up to 20 lb/hr. TEX (tai epsion chi) A typesetting language developed by Stanford professor Donald Knuth that is noted for its ability to describe elaborate scientific formulas. Pronounced "tek" or the guttural "tekhhh" (the X is the Greek chi, not the English X), TeX is widely used for mathematical book AMERICA, INC. Washing systems from Costarelli USA for bottles and film to 5000 lb/hr. Guarantees 100% paper removal, while special floating tank provides HDPE/PET separation. Systems include up to 740-hp densifiers with outputs to 5000 lb/hr and automatic guillotines with up to 100-ton cutting force. Systems from Starlinger (Austria) include conveyor, shredder/densifier, extruder, double backwash filter, pelletizing head, vibration screen, drying centrifuge centrifuge (sĕn`trəfy  j), device using centrifugal force to separate two or more substances of different density, e.g., two liquids or a liquid and a solid. , and cyclone. Capacities of 300-2000 lb/hr. Also offers a separation head that can remove up to 40% contamination. Waste from this system can be used with commingled plastic waste to make plastic lumber profiles on company's Intrumat.
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