Waste Handling with Donaldson Australasia
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Waste handling specialist for the paper industry, Donaldson Australasia, has engineered yet another waste handling loop solution for a high-output printing company. This project, for Sydney-based Good Impressions, is one of a growing list of similar solutions installed at Australian printing companies.
As with the its previous engineered solutions for this large industry, Visy Recycling is actively involved in the loop as the end recipient of compacted raw material for its paper/cardboard recycling plant in Smithfield, Sydney. Director of Good Impressions, Mr Peter Edwards, says his company has a reputation for being one of the fastest and most accurate printing companies in the Australian market, hence it operates a demanding 24/6 operation.
“There is no valid reason why a resource as important as paper should be wasted in the modern, technological age,” said Mr Edwards. “Hence we are involved in recycling a lot of the left over product that goes through our production department. It is all expediently collected by our new offcut handling system and Visy, as the end-recipient in our recycling loop – uses the waste to prepare recycled paper and cardboard. Good Impressions has grown so quickly in recent years that we had no waste handling system relative to our requirement, so this new Donaldson engineered solution is an excellent recycling and environmental initiative by Visy from the ground up.”
From the viewpoint of Donaldson Australasia, one of the peculiarities of this particular installation is the waste output from two automated guillotines is channeled separately from the rest of the system. Paper waste from these guillotines demands far too high a ducted air flow system to be efficient for the client, so here it uses a conveyor belt and gravity to take waste straight into the compacting area.
The majority of paper strips and offcuts on the Good Impressions production lines is collected by suction at operating points and carried through a ducting system suspended from the ceiling. This too ends up at the compaction area.
Donaldson Australasia’s Projects Manager of the Waste Management Division, Mr Dominique Ollitrault, had certain objectives to meet when designing the new Paper Waste Disposal System:
1. To improve on waste management system
2. To improve on preventive maintenance, e.g. labour cost in housekeeping
3. To meet the EPA requirement (Dust emission to atmosphere)
