Success Stories

7 Million Briquettes from Beverage Cartons

300 per hour, 7,200 per day – that’s how many briquettes are regularly pressed from excess cartons and paper dust using a WEIMA TH 714 briquette press at Elopak in Lystrup, Denmark. These briquettes are then used to generate energy in a local heating plant.

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From Production Waste to Biomass Fuel

With plans to implement a waste handling facility, a luxury yacht manufacturer installed a biomass system to generate energy from their production waste. Consisting of mixed wood-based materials, including large sheets of skeletal waste from various CNC machining centres, they were looking to easily and effectively convert their waste into a uniform product, which could be easily transported and used within their biomass system.

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Large Containers, Small Footprint: IBC Container Recycling at Dansk Emballage in Denmark

The Danish company Dansk Emballage, Vamdrup, specializes in the collection and reprocessing of Intermediate Bulk Containers (IBC). The containers are sorted, washed, and recycled on-site. A significant role in this process is played by a W5.18 single-shaft shredder.

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Double WEIMA power at Remondis in Sweden

At the Remondis site in Röstanga, Sweden, HDPE pipes and other plastic waste from production are transformed into new raw materials using a WEIMA PowerLine 2500 shredder and a subsequent washing plant. Just 50 km away, a WEIMA S7.20 single-shaft shredder reduces large and heavy PE chunks in a Remondis recycling plant in Staffanstorp.

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Shredding and dewatering – Strong WEIMA duo for post-consumer plastic recycling at Stiphout Plastics

Stiphout Plastics uses a S7.20 lift-up shredder and a C.200 drainage press from WEIMA to recycle post-consumer plastics in the Netherlands.

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Future-oriented metal recycling: De Rooy relies on WEIMA solutions for briquetting and dewatering

The collaboration between De Rooy, Nuenen in the Netherlands and WEIMA Maschinenbau GmbH shows how the circular economy can be implemented in metal processing. They worked together on a solution to not only transport and dispose of metal waste such as grinding sludge and aluminium chips in a space-saving and cost-effective manner, but also to convert it into valuable, reusable materials.

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