Application

Shredder material:

Light and heavy shredder fractions contain substantial non-ferrous metals. Up to five percent non-ferrous metals are contained in the light fraction – valuable materials which, even today, often end up in the landfill. The heavy fraction is dry-processed to recover clean, salable non-ferrous metals after screening and magnetic separation. If a wet process like flotation sorting is used, the non-ferrous metal separator recovers a clean aluminium concentrate from the flotation product.

Refuse processing:

Non-ferrous metal separators are used to recover metal packaging from municipal waste. Other areas of application include compost, glass, and paper processing and the recycling of refuse incineration ash – for both the maximum recovery of valuable metals and for metal-free products.

Other potential applications:

Metal-free scrap wood is becoming more important as an alternative fuel and a raw material for the derived timber products industry. The STEINERT non-ferrous metal separator also demonstrates especially high capabilities in the processing of electronic scrap, cables, printed-circuit boards and foundry sands. Even finely divided non-ferrous metals with grain sizes down to 1 mm can be separated thanks to the eccentric system.