| Description | CIWM NORTH EAST CENTRE SITE VISIT H W MARTIN Material Recovery Facility
H W Martin Waste Limited and the CIWM North East Centre invite you to visit the Material Recycling Facility at Leeds on Thursday 23td August 2007 at 15.00 Hrs.
H W Martin Recycling opened their £5 million state of the art Materials Recycling Facility (MRF) on the Parkside Industrial Estate, Leeds on the 1st June. The newly opened MRF is capable of processing all types of recyclable material whether mixed or single source and will sort plastic, card, metal, paper and plastic on behalf of Leeds city council. The facility will handle more than 60,000 tonnes of commingled recyclables a year.
Built and installed by Leicestershire-based firm O Kay Engineering, the plant is includes the use of a ballistic separator, which sorts materials by "bouncing" them along a series of tiers, separating them by density.
The plant also contains a bag opener, trommel, magnet and eddy current separator, picking cabins conveyors and a baler supplied by technology firm Nicholls Jovisa Ltd. The MRF utilises current technologies but in a unique configuration, enabling it to handle higher throughput while delivering an excellent quality of sorted material.
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