Steinert says its SteelMaster can hunt for “meatballs”

Steinert says its SteelMaster can hunt for “meatballs”
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Germany-based Steinert says its SteelMaster downstream component has been updated and partially redesigned thanks to customer feedback, and is now even more prepared for “the tough conditions experienced in shredder plants.

The company says the mechanics of the belt section have been changed to improve material flow and separation properties, simplify maintenance and reduce the copper content in the iron to less than 0.2 percent. “The robust design, typical of Steinert, stands for a long service life and good availability of the technology,” adds the firm.

The SteelMaster has been designed to replace work commonly done by hand pickers, involving separating shredded copper motor fragments (commonly called “meatballs” in the scrap industry), to free this copper content from the steel.

Says Steinert, “With hundreds of objects passing over the sorting belt every second, it isn’t easy for the hand pickers to find and sort these problematic items, especially as they may be large or small, solid or weighty. The purity of the ferrous product—a basic requirement for use in steel mills—may therefore vary greatly, making the product harder to sell. By deploying a combination of ballistic and magnetic effects, the new Steinert SteelMaster is a good and efficient addition for reducing the amount of manual work needed.”

Steinert says common meatball and other red metal material sizes identified and separated by the SteelMaster are in the 20 to 400 millimeters (three-quarters of an inch to 15 inches) range. Achieving a maximum throughput of 75 metric tons per hour (per meter of machine width) is possible, depending on material composition, says the sorting technology firm.

Adds Steinert, “Depending on input material and sorting task, other magnet-based sorting machines can be fitted upstream or downstream as required to separate out impurities and fine or free copper content.”

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Source: Recycling Today
Steinert says its SteelMaster can hunt for “meatballs”
<![CDATA[Germany-based Steinert says its SteelMaster downstream component has been updated and partially redesigned thanks to customer feedback, and is now even more prepared for “the tough conditions experienced in shredder plants.The company says the mechanics of the belt section have been changed to improve material flow and separation properties, simplify maintenance and reduce the copper content in the iron to less than 0.2 percent. “The robust design, typical of Steinert, stands for a long service life and good availability of the technology,” adds the firm.The SteelMaster has been designed to replace work commonly done by hand pickers, involving separating shredded copper motor fragments (commonly called “meatballs” in the scrap industry), to free this copper content from the steel.Says Steinert, “With hundreds of objects passing over the sorting belt every second, it isn’t easy for the hand pickers to find and sort these problematic items, especially as they may be large or small, solid or weighty. The purity of the ferrous product—a basic requirement for use in steel mills—may therefore vary greatly, making the product harder to sell. By deploying a combination of ballistic and magnetic effects, the new Steinert SteelMaster is a good and efficient addition for reducing the amount…