Van Dyk nonwrapping 440 screen can help combat China’s restrictions

Van Dyk Recycling Solutions (VDRS), Stamford, Connecticut, says it nonwrapping 440 screen has specially designed stars that resist wrapping for an entire shift and can help combat China’s import restrictions.

VDRS is exhibiting at WasteExpo 2018, April 24-26 in Las Vegas, at Booth No. 3417.

The problem with fiber quality starts with screens, VDRS says. Because of the amount of film plastics coming into many material recovery facilities (MRFs), traditional star screens suffer severe clogging and wrapping, quickly losing their ability to properly separate fiber and containers. The result is a poor start toward achieving a clean paper grade.

With its 440 screen, customers see a drastic improvement in the quality of their paper and containers, VDRS says, and because there is so little to clean, shifts can gain as much as 90 minutes of production time.

Recent customers to install these screens are TFC Recycling, Chesapeake, Virginia; Houston-based Waste Management’s (WM’s) Elkridge, Maryland, plant; Diversified Recycling, Homewood, Illinois; Waste Connections, McKinney, Texas; Houston-based FCC Environmental’s Dallas and Houston plants; Phoenix-based Republic Services’s Plano, Texas, plant; and Total Recycle, operated by J.P. Mascaro & Sons, Birdsboro, Pennsylvania.

For more information, visit http://vdrs.com/positive-sorting.