Recyclers Reduce Costs and Increase Profits with Eriez® CleanStream™ Process
News for the Recycling Industry
Erie, PA — Revolutionizing ferrous processing in the scrap metal market, the Eriez® CleanStream™ Process provides best-in-class metal recovery rates and grade improvement with the help of three powerful Eriez products: the PokerSort®, P-Rex® Scrap Drum Magnet and Shred1® Ballistic Separator.
Via the CleanStream Process, the PokerSort extracts troublesome “pokers” from the shred at an early stage. All potential ferrous material is then recovered when it passes through the P-Rex Drum, a magnet with a powerful circuit that is up to 40 percent stronger than older electro drums and offers improved ferrous recovery by one to two percent. The P-Rex is also capable of moving large spherical objects at twice the distance.
Finally, materials move on to the Shred1 Separator, which produces low copper content #1 Shred (MSA defines #1 Shred as <.17%), a premium deliverable to the steel industry. The separator uses “ballistics” to automatically separate high-grade, iron rich ferrous from mixed metals and waste. It utilizes a high speed conveyor belt and subjects the material to forces that push different materials into different trajectories. The result is that the smallest and purest items are pulled from the natural trajectory of the larger and less pure ferrous and ferrous composite items such as meatballs, tires, etc.
Toward the end of the CleanStream Process, the most pure ferrous items are transported to the #1 Shred chute and move to the stacking conveyor. There is no hand picking required at this stage.
Material that is not collected into the #1 Shred chute goes to one of two other collection chutes. The second fraction is larger sized ferrous items and lower grade ferrous including meatballs and wiring harnesses, as well as some waste. This stream represents the remaining 20 to 30 percent of the original stream and proceeds to the hand picking stations. Since the CleanStream Process has reduced the volume, the hand picking stations can be equipped with slower and narrower belts and now require fewer picking personnel, saving time and money.
According to Mike Shattuck, Product Manager—Metals Recycling, “We know there is a defined need for an innovation such as the CleanStream Process in the recycling industry. The more ferrous material recovered from the shred, the greater the profit. Ferrous recovery represents the greatest opportunity scrap operators have to increase profits.”
Learn more about the Eriez CleanStream Process by visiting http://www.eriez.com/Markets/Index/Cleanstreamprocess.
Eriez is recognized as world authority in separation technologies. The company’s magnetic lift and separation, metal detection, materials feeding, screening, conveying and controlling equipment have application in the process, metalworking, packaging, plastics, rubber, recycling, mining, aggregate and textile industries. Eriez manufactures and markets these products through 12 international facilities located on six continents. For more information, call toll-free (888) 300-ERIEZ (3743) within the U.S. and Canada. For online users, visit www.eriez.com or send email to eriez@eriez.com. Eriez World Headquarters is located at 2200 Asbury Road, Erie, PA 16506.
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Ed Stevens, Stevens Strategic Communications
John Blicha, Eriez
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