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Metal Detection

Accurate Measuring and Monitoring Enhances Solids & Bulk Product Recycling

Global economic and population growth coupled with increasingly stringent government and environmental legislation, such as the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 1997, and social issues means that today’s solids and bulk product manufacturers and processors require cutting-edge technology to ensure optimum energy efficiency, as well as the latest equipment and systems to meet recycling targets, and to protect their employees, neighbours and environment.
Choosing the right weighing and monitoring solutions can help manufacturers, processors and recyclers within a range of bulk and solids product sectors, including aggregates, plastics, glass, metal and rubber, successfully achieve these requirements.
Tramp Metal Detectors
Every year millions of scrap tyres come off the nation’s cars, trucks and motorbikes, potentially causing an environmental nightmare. The EC Landfill Directive has banned the land filling of whole and shredded used tyres. As a result, the Government in partnership with the tyre industry through the Used Tyre Working Group (UTWG) have investigated alternative disposal, recycling and recovery options for those tyres displaced from landfill. One such method is the re-use of shredded tyres in the cement industry as a form of fuel, helping cut environmental impact and reducing carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide emissions when compared to fossil fuels. During the shredding process, a tramp metal detector provides an economical and reliable method of protecting expensive shredders, crushers, conveyors and other equipment from potentially costly damage from wheel bolts, which reduces downtime and ensures the cement production process stays operational. In general, tramp metal detectors are easy to install, operate and calibrate, with no need for special tools or instruments.
Able to identify all types of metallic scrap including bucket teeth, manganese steel mantles, bore crowns, bar scrap chains, and tools, the tramp metal detector can even detect tramp metal buried in wet conductive materials. Tramp metal detectors are insensitive to. . .