See why Ecco Recycling uses Sparta Manufacturing's C&D system.

When Ecco Recycling decided to build a C&D recycling system for its Balzac, Alberta, facility, the company turned to Sparta, which had previously designed, built and installed ECCO’s single-stream recycling system in its Calgary MRF.

In keeping with Ecco’s tradition of embracing cutting-edge technology, Ecco’s Sparta C&D system features the Komptech ballistic separator and Terminator shredder. By enabling machinery to do more of the separation and sorting, this new Sparta system optimizes overall production and recovery of recyclables and process engineered fuel with a fraction of the headcount.

Sparta Manufacturing has launched the NonWrap OCC Screen for single-stream and commercial recyclers.

Sparta Manufacturing is proud to launch its NonWrap OCC Screen for single-stream and commercial recyclers.

Its specially shaped and sized steel discs optimize the separation of larger old corrugated cardboard (OCC) from smaller paper, film and mixed recyclables. Its unique, bidirectional corkscrew motion defies the wrapping and associated maintenance that plagues traditional OCC screens. The result means increased uptime, production and recovery efficiency.

Its screw-style design conveniently directs the cleaned, larger OCC off the end of the screen. This allows Sparta’s NonWrap OCC screen to readily replace recyclers’ standard dual- and triple-deck OCC screens with no changes needed to infeed or takeaway conveyors. 

“If you find yourselves spending one to two hours a day cutting tightly wrapping film plastic and more off your OCC screen’s shafts, it’s time to stop banging your head against the wall,” says Rutger Zweers, Sparta vice president of sales engineering and single-stream specialist. “Spend your time producing, not cleaning.”  

Visit Sparta Manufacturing’s website to see the Non-Wrap OCC in action and stay tuned for more Sparta research and development breakthroughs to come.

See how Freestate Farms used Sparta to build its advanced composting facility.

Sparta and Komptech teamed up to provide a cutting-edge, front-end processing system for Freestate Farms’ new composting facility in Prince William County, Virginia. The partnership's goal is to divert 80,000 tons per year of yard and food waste from the landfill and turn it into a useable product.

The Sparta-Komptech system mechanizes the opening of the bags with the low-speed Komptech Terminator shredder. The shredder uniformly presents its liberated stream of compostables to manual sorters on the Sparta sort line with an overhead vacuum hood system. These sorters efficiently remove the plastic bags and other contaminants, readying this cleaned-up organics stream to go to Freestate Farms’ mass aeration beds and state-of-the-art composting process.

After 45 days and one additional screening step, the compost is “finished” and ready for beneficial reuse as a fertilizer/soil amendment product.

Visit Sparta Manufacturing’s website for more. 

See how Van Dyk's technology has met the needs of recyclers this year.

Murphy Road Recycling has begun installation of a new single-stream system in Berlin, Connecticut, with the latest optical sorting technology and glass cleanup system. The system will reduce Connecticut’s out-of-state landfilling and find new markets for glass.

Rockland Green of Rockland County, New York, has chosen Van Dyk to supply a modernized dual-stream sorting system with a fully automated fiber recovery line, a fully automated container line and new baling and glass recovery equipment. The MRF is scheduled to operate in mid-2022.

Waste Management currently is installing a single -stream system in Houston. Pictured is a nonwrapping office and newspaper screen (440 screen) and an optical sorter for fiber cleanup. The system is scheduled to be operational in early 2022.

Ingenuity was required to fit this large single-stream system into its small footprint. Startup is complete, and the system is fully operational.

Atlantic Coast Fibers chooses Van Dyk for a large system built to sort dual-stream material but also is capable of processing single-stream material. The system includes an elliptical screen and automated container line to recover polyethylene terephthalate (PET), high-density polyethylene (HDPE) and polypropylene (PP). The paper line will alternate shifts of mixed paper and single stream and include screens and optical sorters for cleaning up fiber and targeting cardboard.

The Prince George’s County material recovery facility (MRF) completed a large retrofit with an all-new control system and container line. It now recovers PET, HDPE-Natural, HDPE-Color and PP instead of just mixed one through seven plastics.

WestRock retrofitted two of its MRF locations in Portland and Louisville. Pictured is the latest optical sorting technology with DeftAir and a disc spreader to properly prepare the material for intelligent sorting.

Mazza Recycling of Tinton Falls, New Jersey, wins the National Waste & Recycling Association’s Recycling Facility of the Year award. This marks the fourth time in five years a Van Dyk system has won this award.

The ReSource Center project in Santa Barbara County, California, passes acceptance testing. The municipal solid waste system captures recyclables and organics to divert them from the landfill. The MRF, an anaerobic digestor and a composter are all on one site.

Van Dyk is upgrading its customers all over the country to the latest version of Tomra’s Autosort, with 164 units sold or installed by Van Dyk this year. Pictured are Willimantic Waste and TFC Recycling.

A Bollegraaf baler comes together at the factory. Customers upgrading to HBC-140s this year include Edco Lemon Grove, Grand Central Recycling, Fontana Recycling and two Pioneer Recycling locations .

A new HBC120 installed at TFC Recycling and at the city-owned MRF in Phoenix will bale containers only, making perfectly shaped, dense plastic and metal bales while delivering the hallmark benefits of a Bollegraaf: cost savings on maintenance, electrical and wire usage. Currently 119 models of Bollegraaf 120, 120S or 120M balers are in operation in North America.

Republic Plano adds an Autosort to eject browns and film from its fiber line to make the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries specifications for #56 fiber. It also includes a film extraction system to whisk away film and dust. The addition will reduce labor on the QC line.

Van Dyk supplied seven Autosort Flake units to Mohawk Industries, RePET and Evergreen for sorting plastic flake.

Van Dyk’s Technology & Material Test Center helps brand owners determine if their products are in accordance with the Association of Plastic Recyclers’ guidelines for packaging recycling. Over a dozen tests have been performed this year and have included PET, HDPE, PP bottles, black plastic bottle recognition, flexible pouches, food trays and aluminum bottles and cans.

The Technology and Material Test Center is now equipped with five optical sorting machines, including a Flake Sorter, the latest version of the Autosort, a Fines sorter and an X-ray unit. Test one of these machines by contacting Van Dyk at 203-967-1100.

Van Dyk is now representing HAAS Shredder technology. A HAAS Tyron mobile unit is touring North America providing demo sessions. Schedule yours by calling 203-967-1100.

Van Dyk has sold two e-Scrap sorting systems this year, which include the latest Autosort Fines machines.

The Edco site also installed a source-separated organics machine to comply with California State legislation (SB1383). The machine liberates and screens pre- and postconsumer packaged food waste into a clean food slurry for anaerobic digestion and composting.

BeeFoam has proven very effective for dust suppression at C&D and otherwise excessively dusty facilities. Installations have been done at E.L. Harvey & Sons, Inc., New England Recycling and USA Recycling.

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Domtar is in the process of converting a printing and writing mill into a recycled-content containerboard mill in Kingsport, Tennessee.

The Paper Excellence Group, a manufacturer of pulp and specialty printing, writing and packaging papers with headquarters in Richmond, British Columbia, has completed its acquisition of Domtar, a provider of fiber-based products based in Fort Mill, South Carolina. Paper Excellence Group produces more than 7 million tons of pulp and specialty, printing and writing and packaging papers per year with a workforce of more than 10,000 people at nearly 40 locations across the Americas and Europe.

The company initially announced the acquisition, representing a value of about $3 billion, in May. According to a news release from Paper Excellence Group, the acquisition will broaden the company’s reach and expand its product range to include air-laid nonwovens and containerboard in addition to increased pulp and paper production. Paper Excellence also owns pulp and paper mills that had been operated by the former Catalyst Paper.

Currently, Domtar is in the process of converting a printing and writing mill into a containerboard mill in Kingsport, Tennessee. The company announced in August 2020 it intended to invest between $300 million and $350 million in that facility, which will produce 600,000 tons per year of recycled-content linerboard and medium. The company says that mill will consume about 700,000 tons of recovered fiber per year to produce that containerboard. That project is expected to be completed by the first quarter of 2023.

Domtar will operate as a stand-alone business entity within the Paper Excellence Group. Domtar’s President and CEO John Williams as well as its management team also will remain the same, according to Paper Excellence Group.

“We are excited to welcome Domtar and its impressive team to the Paper Excellence family,” says Joe Ragan, global chief financial officer of Paper Excellence. “Under John Williams’ and Domtar’s capable management, we look forward to Domtar’s continued success across its manufacturing network in the U.S. and Canada.”

Williams adds, “We will continue to earn the right to be the supplier of choice to our customers with sustainable paper, pulp and packaging products.”

Barclays served as the exclusive financial advisor to Paper Excellence and Latham & Watkins LLP, McMillan LLP, Miller Titerle + Co. and Mehigan LLP served as legal advisors to the Paper Excellence Group. Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC served as the exclusive financial advisor to Domtar and Debevoise & Plimpton LLP and Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP served as its legal advisors.

Under terms of the agreement, Domtar stockholders received $55.50 for each share of Domtar common stock. Domtar common stock will no longer be listed on the New York Stock Exchange or the Toronto Stock Exchange.