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Resource Recycling Magazine: MRF of the Moment: Pratt opens facility adjacent to Georgia mill

Resource Recycling Magazine: MRF of the Moment: Pratt opens facility adjacent to Georgia mill

Resource Recycling Magazine: MRF of the Moment: Pratt opens facility adjacent to Georgia mill

MRF of the Moment: Pratt opens facility adjacent to Georgia mill

By Editorial Staff, Resource Recycling

October 1, 2015

At a time when low commodity prices are prompting some companies to shutter MRFs, Pratt Industries has opened a new state-of-the-art facility at its corporate headquarters in Georgia. Pratt MRF

Sortation equipment company Machinex Group announced the opening of the MRF in Conyers, Ga., just east of Atlanta. The facility is located on a campus owned by Pratt Industries, a private company specializing in 100 percent recycled fiber packaging. One of the company's three paper mills is located next to the MRF.

"This is a time right now where most recycling companies are pulling in their horns, they're cutting back, they're thinking about shutting down because they're not financially viable," Myles Cohen, president of Pratt's recycling division, told Resource Recycling ."We're taking a different approach because the feedstock that comes through the new MRF, which is mostly paper, is the lifeblood of our supply chain because we own 100 percent recycled paper mills and can't use virgin material."

"It's a great time to invest because communities are looking for someone who's going to be here for the long term," Cohen said.

The facility was designed to sort material at between 25 tons per hour and 30 tons per hour, but it has since been tested at more than 32 tons per hour, according to Machinex Group. Engineered mainly to recover mixed fiber from the stream, the system has the ability to process single-stream, C&I and commercial OCC, according to Machinex.

Pratt approached Machinex in 2013 with the project.

"Due to the various streams they planned to run, the typical single-stream design would simply not fit the bill," said Rusty Angel, sales manager for Machinex. "So, over the following year, we worked with them very closely to provide them with all the flexibility they needed. The result is an extremely flexible system that gives them the recovery they require with a focus on a quality mixed paper that they can feed directly to their mill next door."

The facility includes a shredder, heavy-light separator, three ferrous magnets, two non ferrous separators, a drum feeder, a back-scraping drum and a truck load-out station. The system is also equipped with the latest Machinex technologies, including a MACH Ballistic Separator and three MACH Hyspec optical sorters to sort PET, HDPE, fiber and aseptic packaging, according to Machinex.

The system can also recover certain non-recyclable materials for use in the company's waste-to-energy gasification plant, located on the campus. Each day, the power plant converts 780 tons of previously landfilled materials into enough energy to run the manufacturing processes on the campus.

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Resource Recycling Magazine: MRF of the Moment: Pratt opens facility adjacent to Georgia mill
MRF of the Moment: Pratt opens facility adjacent to Georgia mill By Editorial Staff, Resource Recycling October 1, 2015 At a time when low commodity prices are prompting some companies to shutter MRFs, Pratt Industries has opened a new state-of-the-art facility at its corporate headquarters in Georgia. Sortation equipment company Machinex Group announced the opening of the MRF in Conyers, Ga., just east of Atlanta. The facility is located on a campus owned by Pratt Industries, a private company specializing in 100 percent recycled fiber packaging. One of the company's three paper mills is located next to the MRF. "This is a time right now where most recycling companies are pulling in their horns, they're cutting back, they're thinking about shutting down because they're not financially viable," Myles Cohen, president of Pratt's recycling division, told Resource Recycling ."We're taking a different approach because the feedstock that comes through the new MRF, which is mostly paper, is the lifeblood of our supply chain because we own 100 percent recycled paper mills and can't use virgin material." "It's a great time to invest because communities are looking for someone who's going to be here for the long term," Cohen said. The facility…

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