Electrical waste reprocessing plant0 pages

Saubermacher – Austria
Processing plant for waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE)

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CUSTOMER

TASK

SOLUTION

Founded in the 1979 as a small fami-

The aim was to implement an au-

The first REDWAVE sorting machine

ly-owned company, Saubermacher

tomatic separation of composite

extracts a mixed residual metal fraction.

has developed into a group with

materials, in order to achieve higher

around 3,800 employees and 75

yields as well as to optimize all steps

locations with holdings in Austria,

of the recycling chain.
The remaining materials were to be
crushed, broken down, granulated,

th

On 10

November 2010, the e-

cycling-park in Unterpremstätten
was taken into operation, as the
first electro-waste processing plant
in the Alps-Adriatic region.
At the end of 2012, the e-waste
processing plant entered a second
stage of expansion.

machine separates the residual materials according to colours.

Slovenia, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Romania.

In a second step, the REDWAVE sorting

and sorted according to colours and
materials.

Depending on requirements, the REDWAVE sorting machine can be used
flexibly to sort either green printed
circuit boards or different coloured

For reasons of space, the sorting

plastics.

machines were placed outdoors and
had a variety of sorting programs
that could be easily and quickly
selected, depending on the task.

This can be set by simply pressing a
button and new sorting programs can
be expanded or changed at any time.