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the quality of the raw materials that
can be recovered, according to waste
management and recycling giant
Remondis.
This is the only way, the company pro-
claimed at IFAT, that recycled raw
materials can become an attractive
alternative for manufacturers ‘both
from point of view of price and quality
and to make it easier for them to get
hold of the supplies they need’.
Remondis is currently investing in a
number of facilities, including a new
plant for recycling polystyrene and
other plastics at its plant in Lippe,
Germany. It is due to be commis-
sioned by the end of 2018 will be able
to handle 20 000 tonnes of plastics
per year, most of which will come from
e-scrap recycling processes.
The company believes new systems
will be needed to recycle PE, PP and
PET plastics over the medium term if
recycling rates are to reach the 100%
mark and the environmental pollution
caused by plastic waste is to be effec-
tively tackled.
Remondis used the IFAT stage to back
calls for an ecodesign directive for all
EU member states. The company also
announced it will begin testing a
‘state-of-the-art’ robotic picking sys-
tem in collaboration with the
Doppstadt firm. This fully automated
sorting technology, produced by
OP-teknik of Sweden, will be tested at
Remondis’ subsidiary Reterra in west-
ern Germany.
WANTED: TALENTS
While recycling equipment sales are
booming, machinery and technology
suppliers are being confronted with a
serious and growing problem: how to
recruit qualified people.
‘We need specialists and we need
them now,’ lamented Ferdinand
Doppstadt, managing director of
German recycling machinery producer
Doppstadt. ‘At the moment, finding
the right people is one of the biggest
challenges for our industry,’ he told
Recycling International.
At IFAT, Doppstadt occupied several
stands, one of which was dedicated to
recruitment. ‘Engineers, mechanics,
good sales people: I would rather see
them start today than tomorrow,’ said
Doppstadt.
Doppstadt is not the only company
searching for talented and educated
young people. ‘We are always in need
of specialists, be they engineers or
mechanics,’ confirmed Steinert’s Peter
Funke.
The Cologne-headquartered firm has
established an in-house education
programme, called Steinert University,
in which employees are trained. ‘It is
one way to get in qualified people but
it is not enough,’ Funke stressed.
‘Now that business is booming again,
the need for extra workforce has
become more urgent.’
BENLI TAKES SOLID WASTE RECYCLING EXPERTISE TO ISRAEL
The Benli Recycling Group of Eskis̨ehir in central Turkey has been active within the recycling
industry for almost 45 years, both as a recycler and as a specialist serving the global market
through the design and engineering of complete facilities and sorting lines for solid waste, rub-
ber and plastics packaging.
‘It is this global market that has brought us to IFAT,’ Benli’s vice-president Serkan Sepin told
Recycling International. ‘In Turkey, as elsewhere, we have seen a growth in investments in house-
hold and industrial waste management and recycling. Our company has been playing a major
role in this and aims to expand its services worldwide.’
This ambition took the company to Israel, where it has recently completed installation of a com-
plete solid waste recycling facility. ‘We delivered optical sorters from Scandinavia and similar
advanced technology from Germany,’ said Sepin.
Benli began waste management services for industrial plants in the 1990s, shortly before Turkey’s
economy began to boom. The company now serves several municipalities and industrial sites
within the central Anatolian, Aegean and Marmara regions.
In addition, it operates a rubber processing facility and a wooden pallet recycling plant, the latter
claimed to be the ‘first and only’ such facility in the country. Here, some 50 000 pallets are disas-
sembled and reshaped every month, saving 3 500 pine trees.
www.benli.com.tr
FERDINAND DOPPSTADT: ‘IT’S ALL ABOUT ACCURATE
SOFTWARE’
Hardware is not a challenge to the industry because we
can all make good machines, asserts Ferdinand
Doppstadt, managing director of German shredding
equipment manufacturer Doppstadt. ‘The future of recy-
cling technology will be dictated by those who manage to
create smart software providing good quality sorting,’ he
told Recycling International.
‘It’s all about software, it’s all about data,’ Doppstadt
added. ‘We have come to a new dimension in recycling:
how to handle the material and sort even the smallest
fractions. But we must also make sure data sets are accu-
rate and can be shared with governments and end users.’
www.doppstadt.com Ferdinand Doppstadt.
Benli’s vice president
Serkan Sepin (left) and
the company’s president
Ömer Benli.
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