Canada Fibers opens largest MRF of its kind in Toronto
Van Dyk Recycling Solutions installs 60-tonnes per hour Bollegraaf system at Arrow Road MRF
Canada Fibers recently unveiled their new Arrow Road MRF Complex in Toronto – and are calling it the largest Material Recycling Facility of its kind in North America. The facility, located in Toronto, is equipped to recycle both industrial, commercial and institutional (IC&I) waste and residential waste.
Phase I of the facility opened in 2010 as a 25 tonne per hour single-stream facility focusing on the IC&I Sector, difficult to recycle streams from public spaces and reprocessing residue from conventional MRF’s. The completion of Phase 2 of the Arrow Road Complex makes it the largest single-stream recycling facility in Canada, recycling materials primarily from residential sources at a rate of 60+ tonnes per hour. According to Canada Fibers, the Phase 2 facility is the most technologically advanced system for the processing of single stream residential material in North America, has the highest recovery rate in the industry and is projected to recover and process 350,000 tonnes per year. The company says their goal is a 97 percent recovery rate of all commodities, and expects ROI within five years.
The Arrow Road MRF Complex is a one of a kind facility equipped by VanDyk Recycling Solutions, the North American dealer for Netherlands-based Bollegraaf Recycling Solutions. The facility includes: 10 optical sorters; 20 vacuum hoods (to recover film plastic from the stream); bag breaking technology; unique and innovative disk screen technology; and a continuous loop feature to optimize and maximize the recovery of materials. Materials processed will include: OCC, ONP, mixed paper, Fe, Al, UBC, PET, PET Clamshell, HDPE clear, HDPE Natural, Aseptic and Plastic 3 - 7.
Bollegraaf says the 4,800 square metre facility took one year to design, build, install and commission, and is engineered with a focus on high separation degree and output purity. The facility is equipped with Bollegraaf’s StarScreen technology for the first two stages of the sorting process, which the company said provides the best results when it comes to separation quality combined with a high volume of material throughput. The plant also comprises double input lines, multiple StarScreens and a three-stage quality control process for all recyclables. According to the VanDyk, it has never combined as many specialist pieces of equipment into a single facility, with optical sorting units for all kinds of different waste streams, a PaperMagnet, various metal separators, and a Glass Breaker.
Bollegraaf also explained that recirculation loops continuously feed residues back into the system, including the waste at the very end, resulting in the highest possible purity of all recyclables. For example, before glass is tipped into the bunker, air separators suck the last scraps of paper from the stream. At the end of the line two HBC Balers compact all recyclables into homogeneous bales. Bollegraaf said that its baling technology with the pre-press flap was developed to combine high productivity with the highest possible bale weight, allowing containers to be loaded to the maximum allowable weight and keeping transport costs to a minimum.
