Netherlands-based Goudsmit Magnetic Systems BV recently built a 1,500 mm wide Eddy Current separator (ECS) on a mobile skid. The company says these mobile separation systems are particularly suitable for local reprocessing of domestic waste incineration slag, as well as wood and rubble recycling and shredder residue.The unit’s skid frame is equipped with four hydraulic legs which allow the separator to be placed at any height up to a maximum length of two metres below the base frame. Moreover, the machine is equipped with two output conveyer belts, one for the product and one for metal. Mobile ECS SKIDs are especially useful for incineration slag, because this slag will be buffered somewhere for a period and then processed all at once on location.
Goudsmit also recently announced they have developed, in cooperation with a large PET recycler in France, a 1,000 mm Eddy Current separator, suitable for aluminium separation from plastic PET-flakes. This unit is an Eddy Current with an off-centre, extra strong magnet rotor that achieves a high rotational frequency as well as a super sharp guided vane. This ensures that the separator can process a relatively high capacity and also removes small aluminium particles from the flow.
