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key facts

  • Our commingled with glass MRFs recover clean products at very high tonnages
  • Our MRFs recover 97%-100% pure paper for UK paper mills
  • Our MRFs are fully covered and guarded to ensure a safe environment for the operating staff
  • MRFs processing glass offer cost-effective recycling owing to the weight of the glass fraction
  • MRFs processing glass offer a big boost to Local Authorities’ recycling efforts
  • Our MRFs have an availability rating of 95%
  • We offer very low MRF operating costs through the use of highly automated recovery practices
  • All our MRFs use bespoke designs to match the exact throughput and recovery requirements of their operators
  • We design MRFs from 1tph to 50tph
  • We are working towards human-free/fully automated MRFs

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commingled with glass MRFs

Commingled with glass MRFs process standard household recyclables and glass simultaneously. Since glass is an unacceptable contaminant in paper deliveries to UK paper mills, these MRFs have to be pinpoint accurate in their separation techniques. O.Kay MRFs recover top quality paper that is accepted at UK paper mills.

The advantages of O.Kay commingled with glass MRFs

  • The screening technology in our MRFs is so advanced that it removes the full glass fraction automatically
  • Automatic removal of the glass prevents broken glass from becoming a hazard to sorting staff
  • The paper recovered at our MRFs meets UK paper mill specifications
  • The local authority boosts its recycling rates by adding high-density glass to their figures
  • Local authority collection costs are low as the glass is collected with the other recyclables, thereby avoiding an alternate week collection
  • Householders prefer a single bin to an alternate-week collection scheme so cooperate in greater numbers.
  • Heavy-duty O.Kay machines withstand the hard-wearing impact of a typical 20-30% glass fraction
  • All our MRFs are fully guarded and covered to protect operators around the MRF
  • Automated recovery of plastics, news, mixed papers and card using optical autosorting technology.
  • We include points of access for the direct baling of monofraction materials such as card.

Best quality recovered product

O.Kay is an expert supplier of design-and-build systems capable of processing all tonnages of commingled with glass recyclables. Depending on the throughput, we use a mix of mechanical screens, autosorts, air knives, magnets, eddy current separators and picking stations to recover top quality materials for sale to UK mills and reprocessors. For more information on all machines found within a MRF, please use the navigation bar on the left.

Worker safety

Whether we are installing a single sorting line or a high-tonnage automated MRF, we take the safety of our workers – and the safety your staff – very seriously. Our engineers are trained to the latest UK H&S standards and they infuse these standards into all our designs. They also arrange the in-depth training of all your operating staff so they too will work safely to the highest standards.

Typical equipment within a Commingled with glass MRF
Air Knives – to suck/blow out the lights fraction from any stream
Bag Openers – to open bags/sacks and release recyclables
Balers – to reduce the recovered product in size for reduced transport costs
Ballistic Separators – to separate flat-and-light items from rolling-and-heavy items
Bottle Perforators (Plastics) – to pierce and flatten plastic bottles for increased storage and reduced transport costs
Bottle Perforators (Glass) – to smash glass bottles for improved downstream sorting
Cabins – to protect sorters (shelter, heating, ventilation and air conditioning)
Can Crushers – to reduce the size/volume of recovered cans in storage bunker/transport
Conveyors – to transfer material to the screens, separators and bunkers
De-stoners – to separate heavy materials from light materials
Disc (Card) Screens – to remove the fines fraction, to sort papers and card
Eddy Current Separators – to remove the non-ferrous content
Electro and Overband Magnets – to remove the ferrous content
Metering Systems – to allow front-end storage and a ‘perfect-flow’ feed into MRF
Paper Autosorts – to automatically separate all packaging, grey board and brown board from the News fraction using NIR (near infrared) detectors and CYNK (cyan, yellow, magenta and black) detectors and cameras
Plastic Autosorts – to automatically remove all plastics by polymer type and/or by colour
Pre-sorts – a type of picking belt used ahead of the primary screen to remove large contaminants
Picking Belts – to allow human sorters to sort materials or inspect recovered materials
SCADA Control Systems - to monitor and control large plants remotely
Trommels – to separate all types of materials by size (two, three or four-way splits available within single drum)
Walking Floors – to allow fast dumping of materials from trucks onto walking floor, which feeds materials into system. Also used in bunkers to walk materials onto baler feed conveyor

Options

  • MRFs for all throughput materials
  • Automated recovery of paper, glass, FE, NFE, card, all plastics
  • All types of mechanical screens
  • Bag Openers (with bypass) for bagged and loose materials
  • Cabins with Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning and Dust Control
  • Dust Control systems across the MRF
  • SCADA control systems
  • Principal Contractor packages
  • Preventive maintenance and total after sales customer care packages - please see servicing

Currently in use by these customers

Cleanaway at their 14 tph commingled with glass MRF in Greenwich,

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