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Packaging waste goes in; valuable material comes out. ♻️

Making this work reliably at an industrial scale is anything but simple, because input material can vary, and space for the line can be limited.

Sometimes a facility needs to be rebuilt and operational within months. Other times, the system has to be designed in stages because the exact composition of the waste stream is still evolving.

That is where engineering, experience, and flexibility matter.

At Azortum, we design and deliver waste sorting lines that align with the operator's long-term business goals, taking into account material streams, capacity needs, and available building footprint. Every step, from pre-sorting to final quality control, is designed to recover more value from waste.

Over the years, we have helped waste management companies overcome complex sorting challenges across the Baltics and Nordics.

👉 See how we solve these challenges in practice:
https://www.azortum.com/

When a region grows, so does its need for heat and electricity.

To meet that demand in Östersund, Jämtkraft AB built a new combined heat and power plant. This required a high-capacity wood shredding line with the flexibility to use a much wider range of fuels.

Fuel flexibility means that the line can process everything from sawdust and bark to wet forest residues, recycled wood, and timber unsuitable for other uses. Its two shredding stages turn those varied materials into consistent P63 fuel for the boilers, at up to 70 tonnes per hour.

That gives Jämtkraft more options when sourcing fuel and helps reduce costs. The line also supports its move from 20% to 75% recycled wood use, while delivering the consistent fuel quality needed for better boiler performance.

👉 Watch the line in action and read the full story:
https://www.azortum.com/blog/jamtkrafts-wood-shredding-line-for-chp-plant/

A common challenge when developing or upgrading a waste sorting line is limited space.

Existing buildings can deal you a set of constraints like restricted ceiling heights, structural columns, and narrow installation routes. Other times, there's very little wiggle room to place conveyors, sorting equipment, or create maintenance access for maintenance crews.

And when operations don't stop during the upgrade, the available installation area becomes even tighter.

At Ecoservice, these constraints were combined with an ambitious project schedule. We began installing the household packaging waste sorting line before the engineering team completed the full package.

This meant that equipment such as the drum screen had to be installed through a partially finished roof, with only centimeters of clearance.

Yet, despite these conditions, the line was completed and entered the testing phase ahead of schedule.

👉 Learn more about how we achieved this:
https://www.azortum.com/blog/ecoservice-packaging-waste-sorting-line/

When we started designing this heavy-duty waste sorting line, we focused on two key objectives:

✅ Capacity: the system needed to process 25 tons of waste per hour.

This is achieved with a heavy-duty feeding conveyor that transports material to a vibrating screen, which separates it into different fractions.

✅ Quality and meeting specific aggregate standards.

Some fractions go to air separators, while others are manually sorted. One line handles positive sorting, and the other ensures quality control by cleaning the stone fractions for maximum efficiency and accuracy.

👉 Learn more about this new C&D waste sorting line in Latvia:
https://www.azortum.com/blog/construction-and-demolition-waste-sorting-line-in-latvia/

The most important decisions in a sorting line project are made before a single machine is selected.

Each set of goals and constraints lead to different engineering decisions.

That is why we start with the operation itself. To name a few, this includes aspects like the business objective, input material, capacity, required output quality, available space, existing equipment, and downstream use.

Only after that can we select the equipment and develop its placement in the system.

That's why, in this example, the MSW line avoids unnecessary shredding, the C&D line is built for heavy loads and recovery quality, and the waste wood line is tuned to chip-size consistency.

Planning a waste sorting or bulk material handling project?

👉 Tell us what the system needs to achieve:
https://www.azortum.com/

Waste goes in, valuable materials come out ♻️

But extracting that value requires a lot more than a standard solution and making it work reliably at an industrial scale is anything but simple.

Every sorting line has its own operational reality: input material can vary, space can be limited, and timelines can be tight. Yet before the engineering challenges can be tackled, it is important to look at the business objective first.

Once we understand what the line needs to achieve for your business, now and in the future, we can engineer the right system around it. The result is a sorting line that turns waste into valuable products.

👉 See how we've solved these challenges before:
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One of the goals for this paper sorting line was to increase automation.

This was achieved by integrating specialist sorting technologies, such as NRT optical sorters and Max-AI robotic sorters, into the full process rather than treating them as separate machines.

The automated line gives the facility and its operators greater control over output quality. With these technologies, operators can adjust the quality of each fraction to meet customer requirements.

This, in turn, helps the company further industrialize waste management and, as a result, produce secondary raw materials that can compete with virgin materials.

In this project, Azortum's role was system integration; the main technology was provided by Bulk Handling Systems (BHS).

👉 Read the full story:
https://www.azortum.com/blog/paper-sorting-line-in-norway/