SOLUTION
A treatment system tailored to customer requirements was designed, built and commissioned by REDWAVE after highly focused planning and consulting sessions. The main advantage of the new system is its suitability to two different types of refuse: one for lightweight packaging (yellow bag) and one for industrial waste. One important goal was to improve the sorting depth significantly. The system was handed over to the customer in 2020. More than 100 individual units were installed; 650 tons of steel, more than 1 kilometre of belt conveyors, 50 kilometres of cables and four optical sorting machines from REDWAVE were integrated into the system. The REDWAVE sorting machines of the latest generation, REDWAVE 2i, constitute the technological centrepiece of the system. They ensure a high level of sorting accuracy of the individual recyclable material fractions, for example: PET / PS / PP / HDPE, etc. The machine is cutting-edge and future-proof, equipped with tablets, so operators of the machines are not bound to a fixed place. For the first time in Austria, sorting robots are used, which help to optimise the recovery of recyclable materials in the case of mixed refuse and improve the purity of the end products considerably.