Heavy-duty metal recycling solutions from Endura-Veyor Inc.

The metal recycling industry faces many challenges with the collection, sorting, processing, recovery and volatile value of metals. Currently, this list also includes labor constraints, rising transportation costs and overall safety concerns. The last thing recycling and scrap metal processors need is conveyance problems and downtime.

Metal scrap conveyance solutions are not one size fits all! A great first step in determining the right match is to identify the unique properties of the scrap metal being handled. This step paves the way to not only getting the most out of the conveyor, it also aids in identifying how the best-fit solution combats common causes of conveyor downtime and maintenance costs. Common causes of downtime associated with conveyors include belt wear and tear, product carryover, and inability to convey a variety of materials.

Alpena, Michigan-based Endura-Veyor offers solutions for the metal recycling industry to reduce belt wear and tear and carryover and to manage a range of materials. For instance, one conveyor type you might be aware of is the steel belt conveyor. Endura-Veyor’s 2.5- to 9-inch pitch steel belt conveyors are heavy-duty and made to endure. They are designed with removable bottom pans, side access covers and easily removable drive chain and take-up guards for maintenance and cleaning. The steel belt conveyors also have abrasion-resistant steel in key areas to reduce wear and tear. The modular bolt-together design of the conveyors makes them easy to modify to meet the changing needs of the application.

But Endura-Veyor doesn’t stop there. We have introduced a very exciting and innovative Top Flight Drag Conveyor™  and Debris Mitigator.  The Top Fight Drag Conveyor is a powerhouse in the metal recycling industry. This conveyor handles a range of loose, problematic materials and challenging loading conditions, such as inclines, curves, batch or surge loading, encountered in many recycling applications. This conveyor is equipped with guided chain-driven flights or paddles that are reinforced for tough applications. The flights push material along an abrasion-resistant, hardened-steel trough or channel, making it more durable than traditional belt conveyors. The Top Flight Drag Conveyor keeps material contained on the conveyor, allowing flights to transport more material than the surface area, delivering an efficient solution for moving bulky or odd-shape products, reducing jams and increasing throughput.

The Debris Mitigator is an optional feature for many conveyor types. Fine, shredded materials can cause maintenance problems for conveyors and conveyor belts. This feature provides a way for material that migrates underneath the belt to exit through the frame, so it does not collect and buildup between the belt and the frame. The Debris Mitigator provides a quick visual check for buildup and lowers maintenance time required for cleaning the belt and the frame, prolonging the life of the belt and reducing costly downtime. This unique feature also is offered with attachable recapture trays, so that fine materials and debris from the conveyor belt can be collected in a cleaner, more efficient way.

When considering conveyor solutions for metal recycling, it is important to also consider magnetic separators and conveyors that are engineered to “attract” materials even under the toughest metal handling conditions. Magnetic slide conveyors are available for applications that require products to be dropped and secured from the bottom surface. Alternatively, overhead magnets are available to lift products out of a stream of other materials from the top, firmly securing it for further handling.

Endura-Veyor’s magnetic slide conveyors are very reliable, low maintenance, customizable conveyance solutions. The magnets themselves are chain-driven and are wrapped in a stainless-steel cover with no external moving parts for added safety. They are a perfect fit for tough ferrous applications, such as machining chips and stampings. Endura-Veyor’s heavy-duty magnets are “CHARGED FOR LIFE” and custom fit for each application to optimize the magnetic circuit and ultimately improve the production for many years.

Endura-Veyor has innovative conveyance solutions that provide ways to reduce manual labor requirements, optimize recovery and increase overall efficiency in recycling and scrap yards by reducing maintenance, equipment jams and downtime.

For information contact us, sales@endura-veyor.com or visit our website, http://endura-veyor.com.

Top Flight Drag Conveyor handles a range of loose, problematic materials and challenging loading conditions.

Endura-Veyor Inc.’s Top Flight Drag Conveyor™ handles a range of loose, problematic materials and challenging loading conditions, such as inclines, curves, batch or surge loading, encountered in many recycling and bulk material handling applications.

This conveyor is equipped with guided chain-driven flights or paddles that are reinforced for tough applications. The flights push material along an abrasion-resistant, hardened steel trough or channel, making it more durable than traditional belt conveyors. The Top Flight Drag Conveyor can handle high-volume infeed applications because the chain-driven flights are on the top of a conveyor bed and move in the same direction of material flow, providing zero interference during top loading. This design keeps material contained on the conveyor, allowing flights to transport more material than the surface area, delivering an efficient solution for moving bulky or odd-shaped products, reducing jams and increasing throughput.

The innovative Top Flight Drag Conveyor solves the product size and jamming issues of typical drag chain conveyors, bringing the durability of drag-chain conveyors to a broader range of applications traditionally handled with Z-style fabric or steel belt conveyors. This conveyor brings the best of both types of conveyors together, presenting an abrasion- and heat-resistant conveyor with zero top-loading interference, reducing jams, downtime, costly maintenance and premature wear to the belt.

This is something you must see for yourself.

For information, contact Alpena, Michigan-based Endura-Veyor Inc. at sales@endura-veyor.com or view the application page.

This feature provides a way for material that migrates underneath the belt to exit through the frame.

Endura-Veyor Inc., Alpena, Michigan, has introduced the Debris Mitigator, which prolongs the life of the conveyor belt on which it is installed.

Fine, shredded materials can cause maintenance problems for conveyors and conveyor belts. This feature provides a way for material that migrates underneath the belt to exit through the frame, so it does not collect and buildup between the belt and the frame. The Debris Mitigator reduces maintenance time required for cleaning the belt and the frame, prolonging the life of the belt and reducing costly downtime as well as providing quick visual check for buildup.

This unique feature also is offered with attachable recapture trays, so fine materials and debris from the conveyor belt can be collected more cleanly and efficiently.

The Debris Mitigator is available on a variety of conveyor types, such as cleated belt, boxwall belt and flat belt and others for e-scrap, document destruction, metal recycling, recycling and shredding applications. Minimize maintenance with the Debris Mitigator.

Contact Endura-Veyor for more information at sales@endura-veyor.com. 

Scrap company will pilot auto shredder residue-to-energy technology in Brisbane, Australia.

Australia-based global scrap recycling company Sims Limited says it has received approval from a local government agency in Brisbane, Australia, to install equipment at its pilot Sims Resource Renewal facility.

The company says planning development approval was granted by the Brisbane City Council and the government of Queensland state for the facility, which it expects to be operational in 2022.

States the company, “Sims Resource Renewal plans to build several facilities around the world by 2030 to enable the company to transform more than 1 million metric tons of the material left over following metal recycling into new, useful products for society each year.”

The plant’s feedstock will be auto shredder residue (ASR), the largely plastic nonmetallic portion emanating from large metals shredding facilities.

Sims says it is exploring producing saleable hydrogen as one of the outputs of the Resource Renewal process. “Following a commercial demonstration in Oregon [in the United States] and an investigation into potential output products,” Sims says it “plans to produce hydrogen for industrial use” at another proposed facility in Campbellfield, Victoria, Australia.

“Sims Resource Renewal is about creating a truly closed loop in metals recycling and a genuinely circular business model,” states Alistair Field, CEO and managing director of Sims Limited.

At Campbellfield, Sims says it will continue with its plans to produce materials for construction, “helping to increase the use of recycled materials in critical infrastructure, such as roads.”

Sims Limited has 4,000 employees and more than 200 scrap metal, electronics and other recycling facilities in 15 different nations.

The company says it’s the first recycled plastics processor in Thailand to earn accreditation.

Suez Circular Polymer (SCP), the plastics recycling subsidiary of Paris-based global environmental services provider Suez group, has announced its plastic recycling plant in Bang Phli, Thailand, has been accredited by the Plastic Credit Exchange (PCX) plastic offset platform. 

SCP says the plant is the first processor in Thailand to be recognized by PCX based on an independent assessment conducted by auditing company Pricewaterhouse Coopers, based in New York. This confirms Suez's operations follow PCX's Plastic Pollution Reduction Standard, which provides a framework for the implementation of a credible and verifiable plastic offsetting program.

"The plastic pollution crisis is a global problem that requires a global solution,” says Richard De Guzman, manager of PCX Standards and Compliance. “Expanding it to partners outside of the Philippines not only means we are expanding our impact footprint but also helping Thailand achieve its goal of 100 percent recycling by 2030. We look forward to Suez's contribution to the innovation needed in this space and are excited to see operations begin this month." 

"The PCX certification recognizes Suez's commitment to offering concrete and reliable solutions for the recycling of plastic waste, in line with the Suez Shaping 2030 strategy to help build a sustainable environment,” says Stephane Heddesheimer, CEO of Suez Recycling & Recovery Asia, based in Hong Kong. “By partnering with SCP for their plastic waste, our clients can effectively deliver on their plastic reduction road map.”