Careful spin - MeWa Recycling Maschinen und Anlagenbau GmbH
Careful spin - MeWa Recycling Maschinen und Anlagenbau GmbH Careful spin - MeWa Recycling Maschinen und Anlagenbau GmbH
MeWa-International Electric and electronic dismantling with a single appliance Wincanton expands by building a fully automatic plant WEEE recycling to meet the highest standards: In the English Midlands, a fully automatic plant is going to be built to ensure the highest output quality. It was only two years ago that the Wincanton Group, which is active across all of Europe, started operating a MeWa recycling plant for electric and electronic waste in the north of England. This plant had already been designed for compliance with the WEEE directive which came into force in the UK on 1 July 2007. All it takes is a single machine Now barely a year after the successful launch of that plant, the logistics company has decided to “make a significant investment in this market”, as announced at the end of March by Gordon Scott, Wincanton‘s Managing Director. “With the new location and MeWa’s completely new processing concept, Wincanton demonstrates its commitment to recycling in compliance with the WEEE directive. Our capability for offering a nationwide service for processing, sorting and the entire recycling process is much enhanced with this new plant in the Midlands”, the Wincanton MD continued. “We are committed to the WEEE directive“ This step has been made possible with a fully automatic plant designed by MeWa for an annual throughput of 100,000 tonnes of electric and electronic waste. The special aspect of this operation: all it takes is a single machine to dismantle all of this electric and electronic waste. All of the work will be done by a MeWa 2500 HD Cross-Flow Shredder. In subsequent processing steps, high-grade plastics, circuit boards from computers and appliances, stainless steel, cables, electronic waste, aluminium or even magnets are automatically sorted out and separated. Only four to six employees per shift are required to look after this efficient machine and to ensure its smooth operation. The recycling plant near Birmingham is envisaged to start operating from the end of 2008. ■ Wincanton, experts in logistics, want to expand their activities in the recycling of electric and electronic waste to cover all of England. To that end, they are building a fully automated plant, in order to achieve a higher ratio of recovery of reusable material and higher-quality output at lower operating costs. And all of this can be achieved by a single dismantling machine. About the company Wincanton operates across all of Europe as a leading provider of specialist logistical and distribution services. In figures: 30,000 employees, 400 locations, an annual turnover of 2.8 billion euros. MeWa-News April 2008
The innovative Kazakhstan – tyre recycling in Eurasia At first glance, Kazakhstan with its expansive tracts of land, is mainly dominated by agriculture.” This is how Ulrich Hink and Wolfgang Lautenbach described their impressions of the Central Asian country. Equally striking, though, to their eyes were the country‘s development potential and the general spirit of optimism. The Eurasian country which borders on both Russia and China boasts extensive oil and gas fields as well as other raw material deposits. An average annual economic growth of more than 8 % is standard in the world‘s seventh largest country. The pragmatic and focused way in which the Kazakhs deal with this economic boom is evident in their capital city. It was only in 1997 that the central city of Astana became the country‘s Tyre mountains exist even in thinly populated Kazakhstan. MeWa-News April 2008 capital city. Since then, its population has more than doubled to 700,000 inhabitants. Everywhere new buildings shoot up, both for administration and accommodation. Companies of Western standards get established in modern industrial estates. In this environment of optimism and progress, the two entrepreneurs expect a market with a promising future. They want to process old tyres into rubber granules, a high-quality secondary raw material. To achieve this aim, the cousins, both with a background in the steel industry, will commission a complete MeWa recycling plant. In future, Kazakhstan Rubber Recycling will process tyres of both cars and lorries into a granulate with a grain size of less than 4 mm, guaranteed to be free of steel and textile fibres. This material can then be used to produce moulded products for use in road building or it can be added to asphalt. Apart from the formal negotiations, Ulrich Hink and Wolfgang Lautenbach experienced Kazakh hospitality with the invitation to visit the wonderful snow-covered landscape of the wide steppe. Fortunately, temperatures were comparatively mild at only minus seven degrees, in contrast to the more usual minus thirty in winter. Good for the asphalt and good for travelling Central Europeans! ■ MeWa-International In Kazakhstan, a complete tyre recycling plant providing pre-shredding and granulation is currently under construction. MeWa accountants Ulrich Hink and Wolfgang Lautenbach paid a visit for talks with local representatives. They were met by friendly people with outstanding hospitality, a landscape of breathtaking beauty and an up-and-coming nation. In front of the newlybuilt presidential palace in Astana. Kazakh hospitality: Wolfgang Lautenbach flanked by business partners from Astana. Extreme temperature differences between icy cold winters and hot summer months are the cause of frequent damage to road surfaces (right). The MeWa plant turns old tyres into granulate free from contaminants and impurities. This can be added directly to the asphalt of the surface course to compensate for the extreme variations in temperatures.
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<strong>MeWa</strong>-International<br />
Electric and electronic dismantling<br />
with a single appliance<br />
Wincanton expands by building a fully automatic plant<br />
WEEE recycling to meet the highest standards: In the English Midlands, a fully automatic plant is going to be built to ensure the highest<br />
output quality.<br />
It was only two years ago that the<br />
Wincanton Group, which is active<br />
across all of Europe, started operating<br />
a <strong>MeWa</strong> recycling plant for electric and<br />
electronic waste in the north of England.<br />
This plant had already been designed<br />
for compliance with the WEEE directive<br />
which came into force in the UK on<br />
1 July 2007.<br />
All it takes is a single machine<br />
Now barely a year after the successful<br />
launch of that plant, the logistics<br />
company has decided to “make a<br />
significant investment in this market”, as<br />
announced at the end<br />
of March by Gordon<br />
Scott, Wincanton‘s<br />
Managing Director.<br />
“With the new location and <strong>MeWa</strong>’s<br />
completely new processing concept,<br />
Wincanton demonstrates its commitment<br />
to recycling in compliance with the WEEE<br />
directive. Our capability for offering<br />
a nationwide service for processing,<br />
sorting and the entire recycling process<br />
is much enhanced with this new plant<br />
in the Midlands”, the Wincanton MD<br />
continued.<br />
“We are committed<br />
to the WEEE directive“<br />
This step has been made possible with<br />
a fully automatic plant designed by <strong>MeWa</strong><br />
for an annual throughput of 100,000<br />
tonnes of electric and electronic waste.<br />
The special aspect of this operation: all it<br />
takes is a single machine to dismantle all<br />
of this electric and electronic waste. All of<br />
the work will be done by a <strong>MeWa</strong> 2500<br />
HD Cross-Flow Shredder.<br />
In subsequent processing steps,<br />
high-grade plastics, circuit boards from<br />
computers and appliances, stainless<br />
steel, cables, electronic waste, aluminium<br />
or even magnets are<br />
automatically sorted<br />
out and separated.<br />
Only four to six<br />
employees per shift are required to look<br />
after this efficient machine and to ensure<br />
its smooth operation. The recycling plant<br />
near Birmingham is envisaged to start<br />
operating from the end of 2008. ■<br />
Wincanton, experts in<br />
logistics, want to expand<br />
their activities in the<br />
recycling of electric and<br />
electronic waste to cover<br />
all of England. To that end,<br />
they are building a fully<br />
automated plant, in order<br />
to achieve a higher ratio<br />
of recovery of reusable<br />
material and higher-quality<br />
output at lower operating<br />
costs. And all of this<br />
can be achieved by a single<br />
dismantling machine.<br />
About the company<br />
Wincanton operates across all of<br />
Europe as a leading provider of<br />
specialist logistical and distribution<br />
services. In figures: 30,000 employees,<br />
400 locations, an annual turnover of<br />
2.8 billion euros.<br />
<strong>MeWa</strong>-News April 2008
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