This week’s photo comes from a plant FEECO built for a company looking to turn waste paper fibers into products for consumer use.
The raw material shown, obtained through the county’s recycling center, is waste paper sludge, leftover from the paper recycling process, and contains paper fibers that are too short to be reused. This short fiber waste would then otherwise be landfilled.
The material shown in the picture runs through a pin mixer where needed additives and binders are added, and agglomerates are formed. These newly-formed pellets are then fed through a direct rotary dryer where they are dried for the next step in the process.
FEECO helped this proprietary company take their idea and turn it into a reality by doing the initial feasibility testing, and then developing a process to take the material from raw waste to end product. FEECO then scaled up the process to build a full production facility.
For more information on FEECO’s feasibility testing or waste transformation capabilities, contact us today.