Brewery Balers
Breweries, both large and small, produce a wide variety of recyclable waste as a part of their normal daily operations. From aluminum to PET, cardboard, shrink wrap, and plastics, it pays more both financially and environmentally to recycle these items than to have them continually hauled to the landfill. Given the range in waste types and volumes, the balers breweries rely on to help them manage waste can differ. What type do you need for your brewery? Read more to find out!
What Type Of Brewery Baler Do You Need?
The type of recycling baler you need for your brewery depends on many factors, including, but not limited to:
- Types of waste produced in your operations
- The volume of waste you produce
- The throughput of waste and required efficiency to manage it
- The available operational space
- The available labor and equipment to load and operate the baler
- Your budget
Most baler manufactures make balers that are designed to handle specific types and volumes of recyclable products. But, some manufacturers, like Harmony, make balers that can handle a wide variety of products in larger volumes.
Here is the most most popular vertical baler used by breweries to handle cardboard, plastic, aluminum, and non-ferrous metals:
- Bale Size: 30”x 60” ≤ 51”
- Bale Weight (OCC): ≤ 1,100 lbs.
- Feed Opening: 24” x 60”
- Ram Force: 56,550 lbs.
- Volume: Large
The M60STD is Harmony’s flagship vertical baler. This long lasting mill-sized baler is designed as a front load baler.
It has a durable 6″ cylinder, 4″ rod, an efficient 52 second cycle time and a hydraulic front side strap eject system for easy removal of 60″ bales.
Contact Us for a free quote on the M60STD or to learn more about how this affordable baler can help you save time, space, labor, and money in your operations today!
Balers For Full Product Destruction
Most breweries that need automated recycling systems have larger volumes of cans or bottles full of out-of-spec product. This liquid must be drained and properly disposed of to maintain quality and brand integrity of SKU’s. To assist with this, the vast majority of brewers in North America turn to Harmony’s liquid extraction balers. These innovative machines perforate, drain, and bale full containers at rates many times more efficient than by doing it manually.
Harmony manufactures both vertical and horizontal models that can be manually front fed or are conveyor or tipper fed into larger hoppers.
They are made of stainless steel anywhere liquid touches the baler and include the ability to wash down the machines for longer life.
Our four models of liquid extraction brewery balers include:
- Bale Size: 24”x 16” ≤ 24”
- Bale Weight (Aluminum): ≤ 120 lbs.
- Feed Opening: 24″ x 21″
- Ram Force: 56,550 lbs.
- Volume: Small
ExtractPack is designed for smaller volumes of aluminum, PET, & TetraPak. Requiring just 33 square feet for operation, this dynamic baler perforates, drains, and bales product 7X faster than by doing it manually! It has the ability to fit into tight spaces other balers cannot and makes up to 120 lb. aluminum bales and up to 230 lb. bales of plastic products.
- Bale Size: 30H”x 42W”x 30D”
- Bale Weight (Aluminum): ≤ 600 lbs.
- Loading Door Height: 59.25″
- Platen Extend Force: 196,350 (lbf)
- Volume: Medium To Large
ExtractPack Pro is designed for larger volumes of aluminum, PET, & TetraPak. It has a large 254.5 gallon stainless steel liquid reservoir and is custom designed with stainless steel splash guards, safety covers, and a power unit weather cover that allow for liquid run off and use in the harshest of environments.
Estimated Bale Weights:
- Aluminum Cans: up to 600 lbs.
- Plastic Bottles: up to 550 lbs.
- Bale Size: 30”x 18.5” x 30”
- Bale Weight (Aluminum): ≤ 220 lbs.
- Tipper Dimensions: 118” L X 103”W X 139”
- System Total Force: 107,756 lbs.
- Volume: Medium To Large
ExtractPack Plus is designed for automated destruction of larger volumes of aluminum, PET, & TetraPak.
Typically tipper fed, It consists of a heavy duty stainless steel baling chamber, platen and charge opening, 207 gallon stainless steel liquid reservoir assembly with custom 2PC straining screen system to catch debris, and custom designed stainless steel splash guards, safety covers, and power unit weather cover that have a peaked design to allow for liquid run off.
Estimated Bale Weights:
- Aluminum Cans: up to 220 lbs.
- Plastic Bottles: up to 240 lbs.
Unlike the competitor models that require a separate purchase of a baler and conveyor attached to an extractor, Harmony’s ExtractPack Max is the extractor & baler in one!
- Bale Size: 45″L x 42″W x 30″H
- Bale Weight (Aluminum): ≤ 765 lbs.
- Tipper Dimensions: 117” L X 123”W X 144”H
- Platen Total Force: 235,600 lbs.
- Volume: X-Large
The increased bale weight capacity and ability to generate a mill-sized bale makes this product extremely desirable for companies that want to improve their recycling revenue.
Production facilities have realized an ROI of one year with a combined recycled revenue and an approximate savings of a 1.5 FTE. Instead of using only 4500 aluminum cans to make its bale, the GEN2 uses approximately 25,000 aluminum cans in its bale making process.
Estimated Bale Weights:
- Aluminum Cans: up to 765 lbs.
- Plastic Bottles: up to 875 lbs.
Let Harmony Help Today!
Now that you have learned about the most popular brewery balers on the market, you need to learn how to get one for your business. Harmony Enterprises offers purchase, rental, and lease options for all of our wide range of long lasting waste handling and recycling solutions. We offer free quotes, no obligation site reviews, customer referrals, and leading warranty. When you call Harmony, you talk to real-life, experienced industry professionals with knowledge of the equipment as well as your specific application. They will use our proven process to ensure that you are offered the right solution for your business.
Don’t put off saving on waste hauling and recycling revenue any longer! Call Harmony at (507) 886-6666, email us at [email protected], or fill out this simple form today!