Recycling Balers Provide Benefits
Business owners use a variety of recycling balers to help them save time, space, labor, and money managing operational waste. Balers help to reduce the volume of trash in the waste stream, the number of dumpster or compactor pulls needed in a month, and provide additional sources of revenue. Depending on the commodity being recycled, operational space, volume, and budget, most business owners implement the use of a manually fed vertical baler to achieve these results. What about businesses like recycling centers, transfer stations, or distribution facilities that receive in large quantities of loose recyclables? What types of machines do they use to optimize their operations?
Efficiency Is Key
Harmony has talked to, worked with, and visited several recycling centers throughout the United States to better learn about their processes and the recycling center baler solutions they need to streamline their operations. The main focus of all recycling centers is efficiency. How can they bale, stack, and transport a variety of recyclable commodities safely and efficiently?
One commonality with most recycling centers is that they need to have the recyclables conveyor fed into their recycling balers. Product is loaded into hoppers by a sorting line, tipper, cart, forklift and more. The material is then conveyed up to the baler to be processed. This allows for larger volumes of product to be baled at a faster rate.
The second commonality is that the recycling center balers need to be able to cycle automatically. With such large amounts of product going into the baler off the conveyor, these machines need to be able to sense when the chamber is full, stop the conveyor, and cycle automatically. This eliminates the need for extra labor in the process, which adds both time and expense to operations.
Trusted Recycling Center Balers
Two of the most trusted balers used by recycling professionals are Harmony’s T60XDRC Automatic Baler and HM-60 Closed End Horizontal Baler.
The T60XDRC is a conveyor fed, space-saving vertical baler that has automatic cycling features. It is recognized as making some of the most consistently dense mill-sized bales in the industry. Recyclers typically use the T60XDRC to bale aluminum, PET, HDPE, other plastics, steel, tin, textiles, and more.
With its large 48″ rear hopper and conveyor, extra beefy conveyor cleats, large 10 inch cylinder with twin torque tubes, and fast 30 second cycle time, the T60XDRC makes the following estimated bale weights efficiently:
- Aluminum Cans: up to 1000 lbs.
- PET Beverage Bottles: up to 1260 lbs.
- HDPE: up to 1330 lbs.
- Steel Cans: up to 2260 lbs.
- Magazine/Newsprint: up to 1600 lbs.
- Clothing: up to 1350 lbs.
- Milk Jugs: up to 1675 lbs.
“The (Harmony T60XDRC) balers are made very well, make a tight bale and are very dependable.”
-Mary Wittry, Director of the Carroll County Solid Waste Management Commission
When recycling centers have additional operational space and need to recycle large quantities of cardboard, tissue, paper, foam, non-ferrous metals, or other products best baled with shear blade technology, they prefer Harmony’s HM-60. The shear blade on this manual tie closed door baler eliminates jamming and keeps operations running smoothly. The full eject feature clears the
chamber after each bale is made, allowing operators to switch to another material without
shutting down operations or contaminating the bale. Estimated bale weights achieved by this industry leading recycling center baler include:
- OCC: 1,300 lbs. (Short Stroke) / 1,500 lbs. (Full Stroke)
- Magazines: 2,000 lbs.
- Newspaper: 1,500 lbs.
- Office Paper: 1,600 lbs.
- Aluminum Cans: 700 lbs.
- Tin Cans: 1,250 lbs.
- HDPE: 1,200 lbs.
- PET: 1000 lbs.
- Polyurethane Foam: up to 1100 lbs.
Optimizing Full Efficiency
When recycling centers need additional power for large, bulky or high-volume material or a “narrow-box” design for increased platen pressure for tougher materials, they prefer Harmony’s HM-2R185 Two Ram Horizontal Baler. This incredible machine creates the following estimated bale weights:
- OCC: 1,500 lbs. short stroke / 1,600 lbs. long stroke
- Magazines: 2,000 lbs.
- Newspaper: 1,500 lbs.
- Office Paper: 1,600 lbs.
- Aluminum Cans: 700 lbs.
- Tin Cans: 1,250 lbs.
- HDPE: 1,125 lbs.
- PET: 1,000 lbs.
And, when recycling centers require the speed and efficiency of an auto tie baler, they turn to Harmony’s HM-A160. This A-frame style baler is the ideal auto tie baler for recyclers who are working with high volumes of corrugated cardboard, cartons, tissue, newspaper, or other paper products. This innovative baler creates bales of varying length and weight, meeting your exact needs. Operation is safe and easy through the 10.4 ” color touch screen HMI display.
How To Know Which Recycling Center Baler You Need
If you operate a recycling center, distribution center, manufacturing facility, or a printers & paper conversion business, Harmony can help you find the right recycling baler for your business. Our experienced and knowledgeable staff will work with you to ensure that you are proposed the right solution for your exact needs.
It is always our policy to offer free quotes, no-obligation site reviews, and customer references.
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