More waste wood for wood-based panels.
Too much waste wood still goes straight to incineration – its potential for material recycling is far from exhausted. We improve the use of waste wood for wood-based panels with four coordinated steps.
Pre-sorting at intake
The quality of the future panel starts with the delivery. Defining and separating grades at intake – for example furniture panels separately from construction and formwork timber – relieves the downstream sorting and protects the processing machines.
- Defining and developing grades and qualities
- Coordinating intake with waste producers and recycling companies
- Quality control of incoming material flows
Shredding & screening
The pre-sorted waste wood is shredded and screened. This produces material of a defined particle size – the prerequisite for the sensors in the following sorting step to reliably detect and separate every piece.
- Shredding to a particle size suitable for sorting
- Screening out fines and oversize
- Matching the processing to the downstream recycling
Sensor-based sorting
Sensors detect the material on the conveyor and separate standard waste wood grades into pure fractions: solid wood, particleboard, fibreboard and plywood. Effective cleaning of the material is possible at the same time.
- Design, commissioning and optimisation of sorting plants
- Purity and yield proven in our own pilot plant
- Machine selection together with suppliers of sensor-based sorting technology
Fraction-specific recycling of the sorted wood-based materials
Only pure fractions make targeted recycling possible: each fraction is fed into the recycling process that suits it and so becomes raw material for new wood-based panels again.
- Building routes from the waste producer via the recycler to the panel producer
- Developing and testing recycling processes for the individual fractions
- New products and applications based on waste wood
years of experience with waste wood – plus a network of recycling companies, machine builders and panel producers that we bring to your project.
Want to get more out of your waste wood?
From intake to recycling – we find the right approach.