compact line for the treatment of toner cartridges
HERBOLD Meckesheim has designed a compact line for the treatment of toner cartridges. This system has been built and recently delivered to a company in Southern Germany. Using a belt conveyor with a hydraulic pushing device the material is transported to a first shredder where the material is coarsely size-reduced. If necessary, metals can be discharged at this step.
Afterwards the material is fed to a slow-running HERBOLD granulator of the SML-LS series which, due to a low circumferential speed, will provide the final granular size of the material. With the help of a spiral conveyor the material is transported to a screening machine where the toner dust developed during size-reduction will be separated from the ground material.
Since toner can provoke dust explosions, the machine has been equipped with a corresponding surveillance device.
The received size-reduced material can easily be reused for injection moulding applications.
The advantages of the plant:
All size-reduction and conveying steps are operated with slow-running components, so the plant will work with an extremely low noise level.
The slow-running operation also prevents the development of much dust.
In addition to this, wear is considerably reduced at the relevant parts of the plant.
The large buffer stripe and the storage tank will serve as a buffer: the operator will not continuously have to feed the plant; he can also be used for other tasks.
This plant is also designed as a primary granulator for clean and sorted waste. Especially for abrasive materials (glass fibre reinforced plastic waste) this is an economic and gentle procedure. Conventional fast-running plants would not only create a big material loss due to the development of dust-like particles, but also the wear and tear in the granulator, pneumatic material discharge would be much higher than with the presented plant.
Herbold manufactures plants for the recycling of plastic waste in all sizes, especially medium and large-sized plants with throughputs per hour counted in tons are our strength.
