Recycling Industry

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Recycling Equipment

Separation, Detection, and Conveying Equipment for the Recycling Industries

Bunting provides equipment to help customers working in the recycling industries by using magnetic separation technology to remove metal contaminants from material lines, providing metal detection equipment to alert operators of ferrous and non-ferrous metal hazards within the system, and offering magnetic conveying systems to assist customers with efficiently moving material throughout their facilities. All of our equipment is designed to be low-maintenance and operator friendly to increase efficiency and decrease downtime in your operations. Magnetic separation utilises powerful magnets to pull out ferrous metal contaminants from a processing line, trapping them against the face of the magnet and ensuring they cannot re-enter the material stream. The strength of the magnetic field means that continued material flow, no matter how rapid, will not be able to dislodge the ferrous material from where it has been initially trapped. Bunting offers magnetic separation equipment suitable for conveyed, gravity free-fall systems, in-line systems, and liquid processing systems. Metal detection systems generate an electromagnetic field that material is flowed through,sensing and rejecting any ferrous or non-ferrous metal that is hidden within the material. In situations where a magnetic separator may be unable to remove a non-ferrous contaminant, such as aluminium, a metal detector is able to sense this metal and remove the contaminated section of material from the greater flow of operations. Bunting offers metal detection equipment suitable for conveyed, gravity free fall, pneumatic, and pipeline applications, with three different packages available for electronics customisation. Bunting offers conveyor systems and conveyor system parts in order to provide efficient transport of various recycled materials throughout your facility. Bunting’s magnetic conveyors and accessory parts offer an efficient, low-maintenance answer to moving high volumes of material quickly and safely in any environment, no matter how tough. All of our products are custom designed according to the customer’s specifications, allowing for them to integrate seamlessly into the existing production environment. Our team of engineers works with each customer to deliver a personalised piece of equipment with the physical dimensions to best fit your space and the magnetic components that best suit your separation, detection, and conveying needs.

OVERBAND MAGNETS

Bunting® have been manufacturing permanent magnetic and electromagnetic overbands for over 40 years. Recent investment in manufacturing techniques and magnettechnology has enabled us to offer the most comprehensive range of overband magnets with the highest levels of performance.

Supplying all industries, volume OEM’s and one off installations, Bunting has the overband magnet to suit your application.

An extensive range of design sizes to suit all applications
Solutions for both cross belt and in-line installations
Welding to ISO3834 accredited standards
Accreditation to ISO9001 quality standards
Technical application engineers available to advise and assist
Custom design service
Same day dispatch on a vast range of spare parts
Qualified service engineers and technical support

Permanent Overband Magnets

Bunting supplies various types of plate-based magnetic separators that can be implemented into a broad range of applications, and can be used with an equally wide range of materials. All plate magnets are designed for the capture of tramp metal in gravity free-fall applications. Metal-detectable gaskets and grommets are standard features in housing of plate magnets.

PCB Permanent Overband

Heavy duty range designed mainly for
recycling and quarrying industries to
remove ferrous tramp. For conveyors
300 to 2000mm wide at operating
heights up to 400mm.

PCB-C Compact Permanent Overband

Aimed at the volume mobile equip
ment market. More compact and
lightweight. For conveyors 600 to
1500mm wide at operating heights up
to 300mm.

QBC Quick Belt Change Permanent Overband

Fast belt change overband magnet for
reduced downtime. For conveyors 600
to 1500mm wide at operating heights
up to 300mm

Electro-Overband Magnets

ElectroMax Compact Air Cooled

High performance, lightweight, air
cooled electromagnetic overband. For
conveyors 1000 to 1800mm wide at
operating heights up to 600mm.

OCW Heavy Duty Oil Cooled

Heavy duty oil cooled electromag
netic overband range available in
over 300 sizes. For conveyors 500 to
3000mm wide at operating heights up
to 1000mm.

ACW Heavy Duty Air Cooled

Heavy duty air cooled electromag
netic overband range available in
over 300 sizes. For conveyors 500 to
3000mm wide at operating heights up
to 1000mm.

Overband Model Guide and Options

Plate Housing Magnets resist bridging and choking to remove tramp iron and ferrous fine particles from flow resistant bulk materials. The stainless steel housings mount easily to enclosed spouting or directly on processing equipment. Optional square, rectangular, and round adapters can be supplied or designed to your specifications for ease of installation. A baffle at the top of the housing helps break up clumps and directs product flow over the unit’s two powerful plate magnets

Excellent for separation of coarse, fluffy, and other flow resistant materials that bridge in grates and drawer magnets.
A diverter at the top of the housing helps break up clumps and directs product flow over the unit’s two powerful plate magnets. Additional removable/replaceable diverters are available.
Custom transitions for round, square, or rectangular spouting are available to fit any application.
Economical ceramic and powerful rare earth magnets are both available based on your production needs.
A self-cleaning option is available for increased efficiency.
Compact design fits easily into limited spaces, which allows for mounting on processing equipment or on spouting.
Rugged stainless steel construction resists wear and extends life of equipment.

SUSPENDED PLATE MAGNETS

Bunting suspended plate magnets are designed to be suspended above open conveyors to remove ferrous objects and fines found in grains, feedstuffs, raw and processed food products, dry powders, and other particulates.

The stainless steel design complies with food and sanitary grade requirements.
The magnet suspends over a conveyor belt or drop-off point to remove contaminants from dry powders, grains and particulates without interrupting the product flow.
The magnet suspends over a conveyor belt or drop-off point to remove contaminants from dry powders, grains and particulates without interrupting the product flow.
The powerful ceramic magnet field reaches deep into conveyed material to pull ferrous tramp from flat-belt and trough conveyers. Rare earth magnet models are available for applications that require greater magnetic power.
Sturdy, free-standing, bolt-together support frames enable convenient mounting.
Optional stripper plate slides out for fast, easy, out-of-the-way cleaning.

Benefits of the Oil Cooled

Strongest option available.
Maintains optimum working temperature.
Maximum protection for your processing equipment.
Holds extracted ferrous material in place until power is turned off.
On/Off switching simplifies removal of collected ferrous.
Comes standard with suspension chains and hardware.
Works on burden depths up to 760mm depending on the material being separated.

Metal Detection: Custom Designed for Aggregate and Mining Applications

TN77 CONVEYOR BELT METAL DETECTOR

Product Features:

Reliable protection against machinery damage
Detection of tramp iron & manganese steel, including non-magnetic digger teeth.
Easy installation into a customers’ existing conveyor system.
Simplicity of operation with fully adjustable sensitivity/detection levels.
Capable of indicating if one or two pieces of tramp iron are simultaneously detected.
Capable of overlooking non-magnetic, copper-alloy belt fasteners

EDDY CURRENT SEPARATION CONVEYOR

These units can be designed into a complete custom system for maximum product purity. The system could include: Transfer Conveyor into and out of the system; HISC® High Intensity Separation Conveyor® or SSSC® Stainless Steel Separation Conveyor™ for stainless steel separation; Magnetic CrossBelt™ Separation Conveyor for larger ferrous tramp; and Vibratory Feeder Trays. Bunting Engineers will provide full 3-D System CAD Models and 2-D drawings for system review analysis when orders are placed.

Product Features:

Designed to provide the optimal eddy current fields to achieve the maximum separation of small non-ferrous metals from other materials
Low maintenance conveyor with extremely tough urethane belts to allow longer wear.
Cantilever frame weldment design allows easy belt change within minutes.
Double VFDs for optimising relative belt speeds.
Available in varying widths with four rotor options available based on your application needs
Units can be designed into “custom systems” in combinations with equipment.

High Intensity ECS Units:

The High Intensity ECS units are specifically designed to handle the separation of small and difficult non-ferrous particles that require high repulsive forces for an accurate separation. This type of unit has a 300mm diameter, 24 pole rotor and is available with operating widths of up to 2 metres

Optional extras include:

A high powered rare earth drum magnet to be utilised in applications with high ferrous content to remove small particles of ferrous materials, which may damage the rotor cover if caught underneath the belt.
Rotary or static belt cleaning brushes for use in applications where the product may be wet or sticky.
Mobile chassis
Power plant.

Standard Drum Magnet

Designed for separation of ferrous from high volume loads. Drum magnets provide an efficient method for
removing ferrous material from heavy-flow applications. They are self-cleaning and install easily.

All drum magnets are available in electromagnetic or permanent designs, as well as including the option to be made with a high intensity rare earth magnetic system (ideal for separation of exceptionally small contaminant particles).
Ideal for high-flow, heavy-contamination applications.
Optional manganese wear plates for abrasive materials.
Multiple drums can be used sequentially for heavily contaminated product
Direct drive with an optional variable speed control based on your application needs.
Open style design (free of housing) is ideal for installing at the end of conveying machines, such as chutes, for removal of ferrous contaminants.
Totally enclosed design (equipped with housing) is ideal for applications where product must be kept free from external contamination, as well as protecting your employees from inhaling any dust being given off from the product

Magnetic Separation Pulleys

Offering superior continuous removal and discharging of ferrous contamination, such as nails, staples, bolts and wire from conveyors, all with maintenance-free operation. OEM Separation Pulleys are economical magnetic separation pulleys that can be used to transform your standard material handling conveyor into a material separation conveyor. Being able to combine the transport of your mate rials and the separation of contaminants into one simple step increases the efficiency of your operation

Manufactured for maximum reach-out, holding force and separation effectiveness.
Available in both economical ceramic and the high-intensity neodymium rare earth magnets for maximum separation
Pulleys are 100-1200mm in diameter depending on your application needs. These pulley systems offer maintenance-free operation.
Widths from 100mm up to 2100mm wide
Available in all-stainless-steel construction with food, sanitary, and USDA finishes available to fit your production safety regulations.
Pulleys are offered with economical stepped crowned face, machine crowned face, flat faced and provide an assortment of rubber vulcanised crowned covers. These pulleys can be provided with the same shaft your existing conveyor has, making the switch from a standard to a magnetic pulley system quick and easy.
We offer an assortment of taper lock or QD hubs for any shaft diameter you need or welded in shafts to slip into the end of your conveyor and match up perfectly

High Intensity Separation Pulleys

Built with high-intensity neodymium rare earth magnets, these pulleys are designed for the toughest jobs that require maximum separation. High-intensity separation pulleys are ideal for separating materials that are difficult to magnetically attract and separate from a material flow using standard methods, such as paramagnetic fine particles, stainless steel scrap, and work-hardened fasteners.

Deep reach rare earth field pulleys are ideal for installation in high volume processing lines to ensure all ferrous metals are removed from deeper burden streams before they reach other equipment.
Pulley units can be incorporated on OEM conveyors, providing reach outs of 10″ to 12″ with unmatched field intensity.
Low reachout rare earth field pulleys are available, designed to have high gauss, super high-intensity fields while maintaining a low reachout in order to suit low volume applications.
Low reachout pulley units can be easily incorporated on OEM conveyors to create an all-in-one system for conveying and separating materials.
Electro Pulleys available with variable flux control for selective separation of materials with different magnetic properties

Rare Earth Roll Separator

The Rare Earth Roll Separator is ideal for handling dry material, whether fine or coarse, and purifying it of ferromagnetic and paramagnetic particles. Within the production line, a vibratory feeder loads material to be treated onto a short centered thin conveyor belt, allowing for material to be fed evenly onto the magnetic roll. Any magnetic elements present in the greater non-magnetic material are securely held onto the belt by its powerful magnetic force, a result of the neodymium magnets this equipment incorporates. These magnetic contam inants are discharged down a rear chute once the belt exits the magnetic force area present on the underside of the roll. This system efficiently traps magnetic contaminants while allowing non-magnet ic material to be discharged in front of the roll, following its normal trajectory in the production line.

Composite high-intensity magnetic head pulley utilises neodymium magnets, the most powerful permanent magnets available
Magnetic rolls are available in 75mm, 150mm, and 200mm diameters, up to a width of 1 metre
Multiple configurations of rolls are offered, giving the non-magnetic fraction a further pass for improved product purity. Material from 100 micron to 5mm can be treated
Varying separation trajectories can be set by adjusting the conveyor speed using the inverter control setting on the control panel and adjusting the splitter chutes.
Can be used in a variety of applications, including ceramics, granulated slag, iron ores, plastics, silicones, ilmenite, mica, crushed glass, refractory material, high purity quartz, granite, talc, and battery recycling.

Laboratory Testing

To arrive at the best separation criteria, Bunting uses a fully equipped laboratory for material testing to en sure optimum equipment selection. Customers are in vited to submit samples for testing and evaluation, to ensure that separation performance can be measured, with all the results and process recommendations being submitted for the client’s approval. Initial trials are normally carried out free of charge and customers are encouraged, if practicable, to participate in the testing and processing procedure.

Induced Roll Separator

The induced roll magnetic separator provides mineral purification for a wide range of mineral and ceramic processing industries. It works to perform the continuous extraction of small magnetic particles from within material, resulting in an end product free of contamination.

High intensity magnetic roll causes magnetic material to attach itself onto the roll face or be deflected towards the roll.
Brush accessory assists in discharge of magnetic material, with a splitter plate interposed to separate material streams, ensuring no separated contaminants will find their way back into the product stream.
Available in 1, 2 or 4 roll configurations. The roll arrangements can also vary depending on the application and requirements. We manufacture a range of sizes to suit your application.

High Intensity Electro Magnetic Filters

High Intensity Electromagnetic Filters are designed for the continuous removal of ferrous particles from many liquid based applications, particularly ceramic, slips and glazes and are designed to handle from 45 litres per minute to 900 litres per minute. Filters are fitted with an auto backflush system on a timed cycle to enhance performance and to prevent clogging. This feature proves to be particularly successful where superior quality ceramics are required, outperforming competitor units. The Filters enable companies to overcome the perennial problem faced by the ceramic industry of eliminating iron contamination in the glaze and slip processes, dramatically reducing structural and cosmetic defects in the manufactured product, resulting in costly rejects.

Wet Drum Permanent Separators

Wet Drum Separators are mainly used for the recovery of magnetic/ferrosilicon in dense media plants and iron ores. Wet drum separators work on a similar principle to our other existing drum separators. A stationary magnet system with several radial poles attracts the magnetic material to the drum face. The rotating cover then carries the magnetics from one pole to another, at the same time rotating the magnetic particle to allow trapped non magnetics to free fall. This should then produce a clean magnetic product completing the magnetic separation process. Wet drum separators have three basic designs that work with 3 different types of application, they are concurrent, counter flow and counter current. The purpose of this is to ensure that we can meet recovery figures of 99.9% when dealing with different solid to liquid ratios

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