Wear reduction in the recycling industry

Wivé Techniek offers various customized solutions to reduce wear and tear in the recycling industry and extend machine life. Recycling uses high-end technology that touches on artificial intelligence, such as sorting machines with cameras that recognize different types of materials to “blow” them out of the waste stream with precision. At the same time, many of the processes also involve considerable mechanical stress. Think of breaking and shredding glass, wood and garbage, and forcefully blowing all kinds of materials through pipes. A lot of wear and tear occurs in these processes.

In pneumatic displacement, pipes wear out especially in the bends. We can slow down this process and extend service life by creating wear-resistant bends or lining entire pipes. For wear-resistant bends, we use materials such as Abresist wear-resistant fused basalt and various types of technical ceramics with zirconium or aluminum oxide (Kalcor, Kalocer). We can also manufacture complete pipes from hard-welded plates or ultra-hard steels, such as Hardox.

The choice of appropriate materials and applications depends on the process and degree of wear. In the young recycling industry, wear reduction not infrequently involves innovations, devised on site by our specialists in cooperation with the customer’s engineers. Sometimes we can reasonably predict in advance what the result will be. Sometimes, too, we have to work with the client by trial and error to determine what works best. In that case, our people also provide (part of) the assembly, such as the welding up of a rotor on site. We then conduct tests together to arrive at the optimal solution.

Want to discuss ways to extend the service life of your recycling facilities and meet scheduled periodic maintenance stops without interruption?

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