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MOTION CONTROL...

Improving performance and

efficiency for waste recycling

As waste recycling industries increasingly look towards technology to improve
efficiency and productivity, many are turning to motion control as part of automation
systems that improve throughput and optimise processing quality
ith the already ubiquitous use of efficiently process waste material with minimal
sophisticated automated systems in costs and maximum efficiency. By transferring the
large-scale industrial waste proc- processing and materials recovery of bulk waste to
Wessing plants where significant outside contractors, in the form of foodstuffs,
improvements continue to be made possible, packaging materials and waste material from
manufacturers of special purpose equipment are manufacturing processes etc., their costs are
turning to problem solving for smaller food waste, potentially much higher than in-house ‘vertically
general waste recycling and materials recovery integrated’ waste processing using specialised
requirements that are found, for instance, in equipment that now increasingly serves these
industrial kitchens, restaurant groups, food outlet industries.
chains, supermarkets and logistics companies. For food waste processing, smaller scale
These application areas, just like their large macerators remove liquid through centrifugal action
scale counterparts, are characterised by the need to with grey water directed to normal drainage

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