Not only hairdressers and barbers can do this, but also the machines of HERBOLD MECKESHEIM GmbH – the latter are appropriate for recycling contaminated and mixed plastic waste, i.e. PET bottles, agricultural film, barrels and containers, oil reservoirs, etc.
A new product of HERBOLD MECKESHEIM is the T 406 (Figure) that, with its particularly compact design, can be used at several places in recycling lines: e.g. it can do the job of a friction washer after the size reduction step to unravel paper and separate dirty water from the product stream. The machine can also be used as a mechanical drying centrifuge at the end of the washing process. With hot washing systems for separating glues, it can do the job of an alkali separator. T 406 can be supplied with drives up to 30 kW and will achieve a throughput of up to 2 t/h.
At the inlet, the machine is tangentially fed with the material to be treated, and this material is then conveyed along a perforated cylinder to the outlet with the help of a paddle wheel rotor. Due to the centrifugal force applied to the material the dirty water and the product are separated through the perforations of the cylinder. In order to avoid a choking of the cylinder perforations, the outer surface is permanently cleaned with a rotary system.
