Innovative concrete recycling plant in the Netherlands equipped with JOEST Circular Motion Screens and Vibrating Trough Type Feeders.
Three JOEST Zig Zag Separators delivered to SKAPA in Austria last year.
In July 2018 JOEST was commissioned by the company SKAPA Recycling to deliver three Zig Zag Separators. Their task is to separate light materials from heavy materials to produce a pure aluminum can fraction.
The separator feed material has a grain size of 0–70/80 mm and is comprised mainly of shredded aluminum cans and contaminant materials. Among the heavy contaminant materials are rocks and bulky nonferrous metals such as brass, copper, and stainless steel. The light contaminants include film, lint, dust, and empty juice boxes.
The task of the first separator consists in separating out light contaminant materials such as lint, film, dust, and empty dog/cat food pouches. For the customer, it was extremely important for the last items to also be separated out by the JOEST Zig Zag Separators. This is not easy because they are made of an aluminum–PET film composite and hence the weight difference between them and the good material is very small.
The two other separators should separate out heavy contaminant materials such as bulky nonferrous metals and any rocks present.
In order for a perfect sorting result with clean aluminum can fractions to be obtained, the material is screened at 30 mm and each fraction is fed into another JOEST Zig Zag Separators for heavy contaminant removal. It is especially pleasing that even aluminum tubes containing residues such as mustard can be sorted out thanks to the innovative JOEST technology.
JOEST Zig Zag Separators also feature postseparation stages for the upper part of the separator channel with which heavy parts in the light stream can be fed back into the heavy stream. “We are impressed that JOEST was able to find and implement such precise solutions for our material,” says the CEO of SKAPA.
Since it was commissioned in mid-2018, the system has been running perfectly and delivering end products with top quality.
My name is NOIRET Garance, I am 21 years old and I am a French student. As part of my engineering studies in 4th year in Energy Mechanics I had the opportunity to do my internship abroad at the company Joest in Germany.
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In conventional exciters, the bearings are lubricated by oil mist. The gears inside the housing churn the oil into fine droplets, which are distributed within the gearbox. Only a portion of these droplets reaches the rolling bearings and provide the lubrication. Some housings have oil collection pockets on the inside. These are intended to guide the oil along the inner surfaces of the housing downwards into the bearings. However, the entry of oil into the bearings is random and the quantity is undetermined. To improve the entire lubrication, the JOEST Oil Management System has been developed.
2024 was a special year in many ways for our continuously growing JOEST group. To start, we completed the largest acquisition in our company‘s history at the turn of the year with the purchase of the MOGENSEN Group and its locations in Germany, Spain and Sweden.
Yesterday was the day: our traditional #JOESTeam Day Christmas 2024 took place, and it was an evening we will all remember. Amidst the magical, Christmas-lit backdrop of Dülmen’s market square, we came together to bring the year to a close. The ice rink, which was all ours that evening, provided the perfect stage for an exciting and entertaining curling tournament.
