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MODERN PLASTICS INDIA
India
Modern Plastics India | 28 | December 2014 |
The Italian AMUT GROUP is globally and HDPE washing plant by an unique The rotor’s sharp tools enter the bales
considered as synonymous of flexibility supplier. separating in this way all materials that
and turn-keysolutions mainly because all fall in the below conveyor belt, conveying
of its divisions and companies In fact, AMUT plant is able to cover the materials to the pre-sorting picking cabin
collaborate together, sharing knowledge where pickers take way bulky materials,
comprehensive recycling flow from
and professional competences in three mixed plastics sorting up to the delivery
sectors: extrusion, thermoforming
of flakes. These flakes have a quality
andrecycling. As a result of this strategy,
level suitable tobe re-used in further
AMUT GROUP is always in position to
extrusion, injection or thermoforming
supply tailor-made equipment and
process.The plant reclaims polyolefin
installations to satisfy a wide range of
thermoplastics scraps to be transformed
requirements.
into granules withan output of 10 Tons/h.
AMUT Recycling Division, innovative
The thermoplastic scraps come
mainly represented by cardboard and
manufacturer of plastics washing plants,
from the urban and industrial
film, from the stream. After this first
together with AMUT ECOTECH, high
separate collection and they are
selection, by a feeding conveyor, the
expert of sorting and separation
previously selected as:
material flow is conveyed in the rotary
technology, represent an instrumental • HDPE / PP containers and bottles for
trommel, where the separation depends
player in the waste processing systems foods.
on size.
field. AMUT and AMUT ECOTECH
• HDPE / PP containers and bottles for
become a sole reference to supply detergents and chemicals.
Three different streams are
recycling facilities. Plastics at inlet: HDPE and PP
possible.
(75%), heavy plastics (25%).
• Material having size smaller than 30
AMUT designers usually work in
mm falls on a conveyor belt, where is
collaboration with the technicians joining
conveyed,jointly to the one fine
their efforts to develop performing
coming from the ballistic separators,
machines and proper structure in terms
to the residue storing unit.
of optimization of the overall dimensions
and of an easy handling to facilitate the
• Material having size between 30 and
maintenance interventions.
260 mm, is conveyed to the ballistic
separator where the rolling shape
AMUT ECOTECH - PRF
and the hard materials are separated
The plant is fed by mixed plastics
from the light and flat ones by the
materials packed into bales, loaded by a
paddles sussultory movement.
forklift on the extracting chain conveyor
Furthermore, thanks to the grids
installed in a pit, weighing system
installed on the paddles, fine material
equipped with, and then conveyed to the
not yet separated by the rotary
“bales breaker machine”, properly
trommel, is evacuated and conveyed
designed and manufactured to breakup
to the special storing unit. Flat and
bales mainly composed by plastic
Confirming this important strength, a light material are conveyed upward
materials. This machine doesn’t shred
recycling plant has been recently by a conveyor.
material but gets back bulk material in supplied in England for a customer who
order to feed the recovery plant in a
preferred AMUT over the others, not only “Rolling shape and hard materials”
for technological reasons but also constant and regular way. Breaking up of sorted by the action of the ballistic
because he could find the advantage to the bales is assured by the circular
separator, are conveyed to the plastics
buy a turn-key mixed plastic sortingplant motion of a drumequipped with fixteeth. automatic selection line where plastic
AMUT and AMUT ECOTECH Joint Players to
Supply Recycling Facilities
Recycling
Modern Plastics India | 30 | December 2014 |
material will be automatically selected by an Eddy Current System (based on the material and heavy plastics. This mixed
optical readers. Foucault’s currents principle), used for plastic are dried by a centrifuge and
• Oversize materials stream, having no-ferrous metals. Ferrous and no- stored in big bags. The Washing Section
size bigger than 260 mm is conveyed ferrous materials selected in the de- operates in a fully automatic cycle,
to the bulky materials picking line, metallization line, are weighed by controlled by a centralized board.
where, different types of materials, weighing system hopper and then
mainly film and good plastics to be discharged into hook-lift containers.
sent to the automatic line are
AMUT - Washing System
manually selected and discharged in
The main washing action on the product chutes.
is made by the Friction Washer, thanks
to the intensive friction of the rotary
paddles among the flakes. Even if it is
continuously fed, the friction washer
allows an adjustment of the stay time of
the material. A characteristic of this unit
The equipment has been designed to
is its noiselessness; therefore a
assure both separation and complete
soundproof box is not required. The
cleaning of thermoplastic material from
water, coming from the friction washer
all the pollutants having specific weight
with paper pollutants, is filtered and then
higher than the thermoplastics one.
In order to get the higher quality of
used again for the process.
Possible residuals of pollutants, not
materials, after the NIR optical reader
extracted in the Washing Section, will be
they are provided QC (quality control)
After this strong washing action, the
filtered during the process in the
stations, where pickers recycle errors,
rinsing cycle starts into two proper
Granulation Section. Once all materials
conveyed at the beginning of the
troughs in series where there is also the
are selected, they are stored into the
automatic line to get more efficient the
separation of light pollutants (paper, non-
storing unit by type, ready to be
line. A manual checking line is also
polyolefin thermoplastics, etc.). The
discharged in the collecting conveyors to
provided. Before entering the automatic
material is introduced in the bottom of the
be then sent to the baling press, for the
line, “rolling shape and hard material”
rinsing troughs in order to improve their
final packaging of bales.
(plastic materials stream) stream passes
efficiency. The light pollutants are so
through a de-metallization line,
decanted, while the polyolefin float. Also
consisting of an over band magnetic
these rinsing troughs are equipped with
separator used for ferrous materials and,
an automatic extractor of decanted
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