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SATCoL’s National Recycling Co-ordinator Paul Ozanne: ‘Every suc-
cess like this must be a deterrent.’
UK-based Balcan Engineering showcased its
latest Lamp Crusher at the Birmingham event,
confirming that sales extend well beyond the
borders of Europe.
‘Most lamps contain mercury so it is vital that
they are destroyed correctly,’ explained Sales
Director Julian Rinfret. ‘The Balcan Lamp
Crusher can minimise all types of commonly-
International success for Balcan Lamp Crusher
used lamps, in all shapes and sizes, including
straight fluorescent, u-tube, HID and compact
fluorescent bulbs (CFL) before shipment to a
recycling plant.’
Featuring a fan-operated air filter and an acti-
vated carbon filter, the Balcan crusher enables
dust to be removed down to 5 microns and all
mercury vapour to be eliminated. ‘This ensures
that only clean air is released into the atmos-
phere,’ it underlines. The crushed debris from
the lamps is deposited into sealed containers –
either drums or sacks – so as to ‘reduce transport
by up to 80%’.
Sales of the new lamp crusher have already been
concluded in Germany, Sweden, China and the
USA, according to a company spokesperson.
www.balcan.co.uk
Post-IFAT success
Many companies released new products at the
IFAT Entsorga exhibition in Germany earlier
this year, and several of them were also present
at RWM in Birmingham to report early sales
success.
Having made its debut at the Munich show,
more than 50 of TiTech’s Autosort 4 near-
infrared scanning systems have been sold to
date – of which around a third were already up
and running prior to RWM, according to
Jonathan Clarke, Country Manager UK and
Middle East. The system’s ‘Flying Beam’ tech-
nology uses two internal energy sources which
illuminate the scanner via a rotating mirror,
resulting in a homogeneous light source which
is focused solely on the area of the belt being
measured and thus ‘providing more accurate
and consistent sorting over the width of the
belt and over time’.
Meanwhile, Germany-based Lindner Mobile
Shredder GmbH had unveiled the URRACO
slow-speed, two-shaft shredder for mobile/
semi-mobile applications in Munich this May
– and several units have subsequently been
sold, it was confirmed at the UK launch in
Birmingham last month. Capable of handling
a range of materials from light scrap to truck
tyres and electrical waste, the URRACO’s fea-
tures include high tilt angles of up to 80 degrees
to promote an optimal flow of charge mate-
rial to the tool shafts.
www.titech.com
www.l-ms.de
Delivered contract in
pipeline at t2e
The Environment Exchange Ltd (t2e) is aim-
ing shortly to launch a delivered contract for
recovered paper – possibly to coincide with the
Paper Recycling Conference Europe which is
scheduled to be held in London on November
6-7, it was revealed at the RWM exhibition.
The Scotland-based company’s existing on-
line recovered paper marketplace is focused
on the trading of collected contracts in OCC
and ONP. At present, t2e Marketing Executive
Yaya Cao explained, business remains wholly
in the UK ‘no matter where the material ends
up’ whereas the upcoming contract extends
the reach to ‘people with licences to import
into China’.
Several mills in China – including some ‘sub-
stantial’ players – have indicated that they are
prepared to try out the new initiative, accord-
ing to Ms Cao. They are attracted, she added,
by the greater breadth of suppliers it will open
up for them and by the availability of t2e’s
independent mediation in any cases of dis-
pute. And by bringing more buyers to the
marketplace, she added, there will be an incen-
tive for a greater number of sellers to offer
their recovered paper through t2e.
The contract covers 12 ports at present but
this number could well increase in line with
demand, according to Ms Cao. If all goes
smoothly, she added, there is even the possibil-
ity that t2e will establish an office in China.
www.t2e.co.uk
Invisible ally in clothing
theft battle
Around the time of last year’s RWM show in
Birmingham, the Salvation Army Trading
Company Ltd (SATCoL) began working with
specialist security company SmartWater in a
bid to combat textile collection thefts. And 12
months on, SATCoL’s National Recycling Co-
ordinator Paul Ozanne was able to report
‘some very successful results’.
This liquid is invisible to the naked eye but can
be read under ultraviolet light, thus helping
the police to trace stolen items of clothing and
also the thieves themselves. Having focused its
deployment on theft ‘hot spots’, five cases have
gone to court in recent months – with one
leading to the handing-down of a two-year
custodial sentence. ‘Every success like this
must be a deterrent,’ said Mr Ozanne. ‘I am
absolutely certain that it has significantly
reduced the incidence of theft.’
He continued: ‘With SmartWater, potential
thieves don’t know where we have used it. Also,
it eliminates any question over the ownership
of the clothes and has made it much easier for
the police to prosecute.’ Alternative security
measures – such as the introduction of closed-
circuit television at collection points – would
‘cost a fortune’, he pointed out.
‘It’s very important to us that the public feel
reassured their generous donations are secure
and will end up in the right hands,’ Mr Ozanne
insisted.
www.satradingco.org
The Balcan Lamp Crusher can minimise all types of commonly-used
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