Bunting outfits UK plastics recycler with several devices

Bunting outfits UK plastics recycler with several devices
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Bunting Magnetics Europe Ltd. says it has manufactured and supplied a Metal Separation Module and Metal Separator to United Kingdom-based recycler Recapture Plastics. The system has been designed “to cleanse [the] recycled plastic of metal,” says Bunting.

The Metal Separation Module consists of a large vibratory feeder that delivers material onto “a strong magnetic drum before passing over an eddy current separator,” adds Bunting.

Recapture Plastics developed and built a plastics recycling plant in Rochester, U.K. The plant is designed to handle up to 25 metric tons per hour infeed of recycled plastic material. Plastic is sourced from throughout the U.K., mostly in baled form.

Initially, the bales of mixed plastics are broken up and shredded to reduce the particle size and liberate materials to enable optimum separation, according to a Bunting news release. The shredded plastic mix then passes over the Bunting Metal Separation Module where the magnetic drum removes ferrous metals, and then the eddy current separator ejects nonferrous metals.

The cleansed plastic fraction continues through a process that includes polymer sorting and further size reduction before passing through a Bunting Quicktron Metal Separator. This final stage of metal separation is positioned to remove any metal freed during the second stage of shredding, says Bunting.

The shredded plastic falls down an inlet pipe into the electromagnetic field of the Metal Separator search coil. Any metal alters the high-frequency magnetic field generated by the search coil, signaling contamination and a signal is sent to the double-actuating air cylinder of the reject assembly underneath the unit.

The metal contamination, along with what Bunting calls a minimal amount of clean material, is then diverted out of the clean material flow and into a separate collection area. The metal-free plastic moves onto a washing stage and color sorting prior to being bagged for shipment.

The plastics recycling plant started processing material in November 2015, three months after Recapture Plastics moved into the building.
 

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Source: Recycling Today
Bunting outfits UK plastics recycler with several devices
<![CDATA[Bunting Magnetics Europe Ltd. says it has manufactured and supplied a Metal Separation Module and Metal Separator to United Kingdom-based recycler Recapture Plastics. The system has been designed “to cleanse [the] recycled plastic of metal,” says Bunting. The Metal Separation Module consists of a large vibratory feeder that delivers material onto “a strong magnetic drum before passing over an eddy current separator,” adds Bunting. Recapture Plastics developed and built a plastics recycling plant in Rochester, U.K. The plant is designed to handle up to 25 metric tons per hour infeed of recycled plastic material. Plastic is sourced from throughout the U.K., mostly in baled form. Initially, the bales of mixed plastics are broken up and shredded to reduce the particle size and liberate materials to enable optimum separation, according to a Bunting news release. The shredded plastic mix then passes over the Bunting Metal Separation Module where the magnetic drum removes ferrous metals, and then the eddy current separator ejects nonferrous metals. The cleansed plastic fraction continues through a process that includes polymer sorting and further size reduction before passing through a Bunting Quicktron Metal Separator. This final stage of metal separation is positioned to remove any metal freed during…