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Electrical connections to the
fluffer, hopper and wire tying unit
use multi-pin quick disconnect
junction boxes.
SCART
CONNECTION PLUGS
First-class hydraulic pumps
(Denison Parker), coupled with
high-efficiency electrical
motors, offer low consumption
and noise.
HYDRAULICS
THE ULTIMATE
BALER EXPERIENCE
4 wire re-inforced horizontal tying
unit, re-inforced wire-driving needle.
TYING UNIT
Wear-resistant HARDOX plate
liners – significantly extend the
baler’s service life.
The HARDOX liners are bolted
into both the extrusion channel
and compacting chambers, and
can be easily replaced.
WEAR-RESISTANT
INTERNAL HARDOX
LINERS
MAC 106
Bale dimensions H 75 x W 110 cm
Loading hopper 180 x 105 cm
Max. thrust of ram 75 Ton
Baler Weight 18 Ton
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UK recycler Enval is part of a special
project aimed at assessing the feasibil-
ity of including flexible laminate packag-
ing – such as food and drink pouches – in
existing household recycling schemes.
The nine-month trial is targeting 260
households at locations across the coun-
try. SUEZ environnement is taking care
of the collections and initial sorting
while Enval will recycle the material at
its commercial demonstration facility at
Alconbury near Huntingdon (featured in
the September 2014 issue of Recycling
International).
Enval’s patented process for recycling
laminate packaging and retrieving the
valuable resource content is based on
microwave induced pyrolysis whereby
‘microwave energy is used to heat and
degrade plastics into useful pyrolysis
oils’, the recycler explains. ‘The fragile
aluminium foil remains undamaged and
can be extracted clean and ready to be
reintroduced into the aluminium supply
chain.’ Life-cycle analyses indicate that
the aluminium obtained via this process
has a carbon footprint 72% smaller than
that of primary aluminium.
Annually, the UK is estimated to use
over 160 000 tonnes of flexible laminate
packaging containing more than 17 000
tonnes of aluminium. With a recycling
solution, this represents a substantial
commercial opportunity, with a potential
revenue stream of approximately £200
million a year (US$ 300 million) in
Europe from the sale of aluminium
alone.
Enval’s managing director Dr Carlos
Ludlow-Palafox comments: ‘These trials
are providing an important opportunity
to prove that we can successfully cap-
ture and recycle the valuable aluminium,
as well as recover the plastics as a fuel
oil product. This will present a solid busi-
ness case for Enval’s microwave induced
pyrolysis technology to be bolted on to
existing materials facilities and help
increase levels of recycling across the
UK.’ www.enval.com
UK project spotlights recycling of laminate
packaging
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