An innovative solution in the Recycling industry

21 June 2012

The family owned company Hector VAN MOER and sons was on the lookout for an innovative solution to recycle construction and demolition (C&D) waste. Traditionally the recycling industry uses an impact crusher, but owner Dirk Van Moer was looking for a more sophisticated solution. “In our C&D-waste there are often big pieces of steel which will lead to a lot of down-time when using an impact crusher. That is why we prefer a jaw crusher”.  VAN MOER started his search for a suitable solution to fit their requirements and found the solution with OMTRACK (a KEESTRACK-group company) because the OMTRACK crushers are equipped with the patented Non-Stop System (NSS) to guarantee a continues production process and to protect the crusher against an un-crushable feed. If a big unbreakable piece enters the crushing chamber, the jaws will open automatically and reset itself to the original setting.

 

VAN MOER uses their jaw crusher mainly on their own sites for demolition, ground works and soil remediation projects and they must follow strict quality guidelines for the Belgian COPRO- approval. Copro approved products can be sold as a commodity. When VAN MOER visited Keestrack-OM in Italy they told the company what they needed the crusher to do.

 

The result was on show during the Mat Expo exhibition in Belgium. The Giove - B5 jaw crusher (1100 x 750 mm/3’7.3”x2’5.5”) in a Closed Circuit with easy removable after screen of 1200 x 3000mm/3’94 x 9’10”, a pre-screen with side discharge conveyor, a hopper with extended hopper walls, a highly effective overband magnet, a spray-dust suppression system, radio remote control, central greasing system, diesel fuel pump and a optical weighing system with data transfer to be able to view production capacity remotely.

 

 “If we crush on location we save on transport and dumping costs. Furthermore, we can reuse the material on the spot by using the after screen which saves on commodities. Screening could be done by a separate screener but we have chosen to integrate the screen to save transport costs and space on site.” According to Dirk Van Moer.  Because of these cost reductions, Van Moer believes that a Return On Investment of 5 years is realistic which is very good for a machine which is not used daily.

This client customized B5 CC, which is painted in the company fleet colors, weighs 62 tons of which the crushing unit only weighs 19 tons.

 

With VAN MOER the B5 CC produces 130 tons an hour at CSS 45-46 mm, of which ± 100 tons Copro approved crushed aggregate of 0-40 mm and ± 30 tons’ natural fines of 0-15 mm. Fuel consumption of the Cummins engine at 1850 rpm is 0,20 liters per produced ton.

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