The Sani-Éco material recovery facility (MRF), located in Granby, Quebec, recently held a ceremony to celebrate its recent upgrades provided by Machinex of Plessisville, Quebec.
In a news release, Machinex says the upgrade will allow an increase of the facility’s current sorting capacity in addition to bringing a direct improvement to the quality of the fibers produced.
The single-stream system, which sorts residential and commercial recyclables, has doubled its tonnage capacity from 10 to 20 tons per hour. Machinex says this new system design is based on current market trends, which have resulted in a decrease in newspapers and growth of containers and small cardboard boxes due to online shopping.
As part of the upgrade, traditional disc separators have been replaced by advanced technologies, including a Mach ballistic separator and three Mach Hyspec optical sorters. Other new equipment includes an old corrugated container (OCC) screen with new Machinex design features, as well as two screens that remove fines at the beginning of the process to prevent fiber contamination. A Machinex single ram baler has also been added to bale materials.
The facility now hosts the latest technology developed by Machinex—a sorting robot that employs artificial intelligence. Two SamurAI sorting robots, placed one after the other, replace sorters on the containers line to remove high-density polyethylene (HDPE) plastics and aseptic containers. These two units are the first Machinex sorting robots installed in Canada. Sorting robots feature multiple benefits, Machinex says, which include minimizing the effects of the current labor shortage.
“Sani-Éco has been our partner for a long time, and the fact that they trust us again for a project of this size makes us extremely proud. They have an ideal sorting center with cutting edge technologies, including optical sorters and robots,” says Pierre Paré, the president of Machinex.
The recycling management company first began working with Machinex more than 18 years ago, the company says.
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