The name Moving Floor Conveyor does not surmise the all round system contained in this BRT product.  

This system was only used in trucks. BRT was the first machine supplier who recognized the mani-fold fields of application of this idea, examined it closely and developed this idea systematically to one of the most universal transport medium. Moving Floor Conveyors consist of a number of push-boards. Connected either with labyrinth sealings, or hermetically closed, they form a plane transport and storing surface.  The push-boards move hydraulically and transport the material in  three-four time.

SEP-O-MAT Rotor Screens from BRT meet increasing interest from paper sorting companies. Customers from Spain , Portugal , Denmark , Irland , Germany , Austria and the United States employ these screens for cardboard separation, or as fine screen.

Mostly, the screens are used in combination with the approved Feed and Metering Hoppers from BRT.
Besides the high separating preciseness, variability, and low servicing requirements, the customers appreciate the screens’ low purchase and operating costs.

However, most customers are still not aware of the extreme longevity of this screening technology.

For example, look into a site run by one of the largest German recycling companies.

In 1999, this company purchased a BRT Feed and Metering Hopper with a double screen unit. One rotor screen separates cardboard, the other one sieves the fines.  

During the past eight years, these components have mostly been operated in three-shift mode. By now, the total working time exceeds as much as 40.000 operating hours.
Accordingly, in short one million tonnes of waste paper will have been processed by the SEP-O-MAT Rotor Screens.

At the end of this year, the site will be reconstructed and optimised. Of course, the recycling company will have the new generation of SEP-O-MAT Rotor Screens from BRT installed after rebuilding, heading for the next million tonnes.

For improving  their service cars with regard to cost effectiveness and environmental friendliness, BRT employs the latest automotive technology.  

Since May 2007, a service car driving with natural gas is visiting BRT customers
all over Europe. 

When PET bottles or other plastic containers are pressed, it is important to produce bales as stackable and heavy as possible. Such bale qualities can only be achieved when the material is perforated so that the air can escape during the pressing process. A plausible and very important fact.

The German based BRT Recycling Technologie GmbH is one of the most important manufacturers of perforators. The machines with the trade name  PERF-O-MAT have successfully been sold since six years. By now, more than 100 units are in use all over Europe .

With a perforating rate of min. 95% and a throughput rate of up to 160 m³ per hour,  the PERF-O-MAT Perforators prepare the material in an optimal way for the subsequent pressing. The material density for producing press bales can be increased fourfold.

The PERF-O-MAT Perforators stand out for their high reliability and functionality. The perforating knives are made of a special steel which is extremely durable and can be resharpened. Even aluminium cans can not harm these knives. If necessary, the knife bar can fast and easily be exchanged.

When a bottle passes the perforator it is not only peforated but flattened at the same time. The flat bottle can no longer roll on the conveyor belt. This effect is important for inclined belts leading to the bale press. Also, the optical sorting systems profit by increasing their sorting quality and quantity. When the bottles move on the accelerated conveyor belt below the optical sorter,  the required sorting capacity can not be reached. 

BRT supplies standard units in various working widths, as well as mobile units with funnel for feeding with  front-end loader. A large number of recycling companies use the BRT
technology for perforating bottles over the bale press feeding belt.

It is no longer necessary to expensively retrofit perforators in the press chute.

Since many years, SEP-O-MAT paper sorting systems from BRT have been used for reliable sorting of paper and cardboard worldwide. The customers appreciate this well priced system for its high selectivity.

        

The SEP-O-MAT Rotor Screen is very insensitive to entangling materials. Even long foils pass the screen into the cardboard fraction without problems. The special design of the rotor screen allows an easy removing should cords or tapes wrap around the first rotor elements.

The material stream is first lead over the coarse screen. This screen consists of axles equipped with disc screens. For optimising the screening result, the distance between the axles and the distance of the screens on one axle can easily be changed.

BRT now provides a new feature, the inclination angle adjustment for coarse screens.
The option of changing the screen inclination angle provides an additional option of adjusting the throughput rate and sorting qualitiy.

A flat screen angle achieves a high throughput rate. The material passes quickly over the screen.  For a very high sorting quality, a steeper angle forces the material to run upwards and slower. The longer the material stays on the screen the better is the sorting result.

A fine screen can be post-connected for separating additional material.
Sorting personnel is saved and makes the SEP-O-MAT Rotor Screen turn to account soon.

Managing Director Manfred Bayer was glad to welcome Mr. Yo Osada from 
JFE Environmental Solutions Cooperation in Yokohama. 
In June 2007, Mr. Osada visited Tecklenburg for learning the latest technical developments and novelties of BRT.

Both companies have been cooperating closely since many years.

In 1999, JFE president Higuchi Nariyoshi and Manfred Bayer signed the license agreement permitting the manufacturing of SCHLITZ-O-MAT Bag Openers in Yokohama for the Asian markets.

In 2005 Mr. Bayer visited JFE and their workshops. He also travelled to some reference sites in Japan.

The Know- How from Tecklenburg is highly valued in Japan.

The recycling branch calls the SCHLITZ-O-MAT Bag Opener of BRT the Number One worldwide. Also in Japan this Bag Opener with the difficult name found its way into the market very easily and is highly valued as a solid, durable machine with low servicing requirements.

Since 2007 BRT intensified their activities in Asia. New sales partners in Korea and China make BRT confident to become even stronger in these markets.

In March, a German a specialist company for WEEE recycling started a new sorting plant. There, small and medium sized parts of category 3 are being processed.
Materials like computers, telephones, or DVD players are different in form and size.
They must be sorted and dismantled.

The company found the concept BRT suggested for preparing the material in an optimal way very convincing. For this demanding task BRT uses the proven DOS-O-MAT Feed and Metering Hopper with integrated CARG-O-MAT Moving Floor Conveyor.

Feed and Metering Hoppers from BRT are used for the most different materials such as waste paper, MSW, construction and demolition waste, commercial waste, RDF, or biodegradables.

A front-end loader fills the material into the hopper. Once filled, the material is transported automatically to the discharge end.

The filling personnel can do other work until the hopper has to be filled again. The discharge speed can be adjusted according to operational requirements.

The integrated CARG-O-MAT Moving Floor Conveyor transports the material continuously from the hopper to the subsequent sorting processes.
 
The CARG-O-MAT Moving Floor Conveyor consists of push-boards moving forward and backwards in groups of three. Its solid steel construction and the easy adjusting of the transport speed make this BRT product ideal for processing of WEEE material. In contrast to a belt conveyor, the material on the Moving Floor Conveyor can not jam or damage the conveyor belt.

The WEEE material is reliably transported and falls singularized and continuous onto the discharge belt for further processing.

On May 10 and 11, 2007 BRT invited its international sales partners to Tecklenburg. Most of the foreign colleagues were able to attend this meeting and travelled to Tecklenburg from the Netherlands , Austria , Switzerland , Spain , France and Scandinavia . The newest BRT representant made the longest trip. For the sales meeting, he came directly from Peking to Tecklenburg.

For some of the sales partners it was the first time to see the idyllic town of Tecklenburg and to meet the team in the BRT headquarters. Delicious bits added to the easy atmosphere and the interesting conversations. 

Afterwards, managing director Manfred Bayer and the sales team started the seminar.

Mr. Bayer opened the meeting with a brief survey over the company history and development of the BRT product range.  During the two seminar days the sales team explained the individual machine types.  For updating all extern colleagues, the special features and fields of application of each machine were explained in detail.

A festive dinner in Jagdschloss Habichtswald concluded the first meeting day.

After the technical presentations the BRT team outlined the international market position of BRT. The sales partners learned that BRT machines are in use in almost every country in the world. From regularly attending worldwide exhibitions and a multi language website, BRT located in the small Westphalian town of Tecklenburg is well known everywhere.

The sales partners then discussed their experiences in their home markets and spoke in high terms of the reliability of BRT machines and services. They especially mentioned the high reputation BRT technology enjoys worldwide.

Exkursions to two particularly interesting reference sites the following day completed the meeting programme.  

The sales partners who a little bit became friends during the two seminar days thanked BRT for the detailed information and pleasant atmosphere.

Material sorting based on ballistic separation is suitable for the most different products. It is a simple as precise. BRT offers this proven system under the name of SORT-O-MAT Ballistic Separator.

The SORT-O-MAT Ballistic Separator separates the parts in a material stream using their individual physical properties.

The input material is fed onto an inclined surface rotating at a horizontal axle. This so-called paddle transports the materials in a ballistic flight curve on the inclined surface.

Depending on the material properties the parts show different behaviours:
Lightweight and flat parts like paper or foils move upwards and are discharged at the upper end of the paddle surface. They form the light fraction.

Heavy, corporeal parts roll in the opposite direction. They are collected at the lower paddle end and are discharged as heavy fraction.

The third material category is the screen fraction. It consists of materials falling through the perforated paddle surface. The perforation size can be chosen according to the operational requirements.

The intense mechanical treatment removes dirt from the components of the light and heavy material fractions. All is done with a separating preciseness of 90%.

BRT supplies the SORT-O-MAT Ballistic Separator in various dimensions and designs according to the required throughput capacity.

For economical storing and transport, materials are usually pressed in bales. 
At their final destination they have to be broken and the material be separated again.

A conventional method is to shredder the bales. Here however, the investment and operating costs are high. Due to the bale dimensions, sufficiently large machines have to be provided for. The purchase costs and expenses for energy and wear parts are high. Consequently, the operating costs amount to 1,00 to 2,50 Euro per tonne of material.

A further great disadvantage of this method lies in the fact that the bale material is reduced to small pieces. The material is provided batchwise in an uneven material stream.
An economical and failure-free material sorting is no longer feasible.

For achieving a high sorting quality, quantity and positive operating results, the material must be provided to further processing in an evened out and loosened up material stream.

With the BAL-O-MAT Bale Breaker, BRT Recycling Technologie GmbH provides an own, long term proven solution for reliable and cost-efficient material sorting. 
This ingenious technology made BRT located in the small Westphalian city of Tecklenburg known all over the world.

The bales are being placed in line or next to each other onto the Moving Floor Conveyor.

The Moving Floor Conveyor transports the bales to the bale breaking mechanism.
BRT developed these mechanics, as well as the Moving Floor Conveyor especially for this application. The Moving Floor Conveyor has a smooth surface. 

During the breaking process the bale can slightly give way when needed. The material is removed layer by layer without entangling and without material clots. It now is perfectly separated.

The sense of rotation and speed can be adjusted according to the individual material and bale density. Also  the transport speed is variable. So, the required throughput rate and optimal treatment of almost every material can easily be reached. 
The loosened up and evened out material is prepared in an optimal way for being presented to the downstream sorting processes. The optimal material condition, as well as the metering according to requirement saves costs and raises both the sorting quality and quantity

The purchase and operating costs for a BRT BAL-O-MAT Bale Breaker are considerably lower than with using shredders.

BRT’s references range from waste paper and a large variety of plastic material (bottles, foils, etc.) to rags, sorting rests, refuse derived fuel, and aluminium compounds (e.g. TetraPak). ,

Visit one of the BRT reference sites and convince yourselves of the efficiency of BRT products. BRT provides a solution also for your material.

For cost reasons, sorting plants increasingly load high-quality de-inking material in bulk instead of pressing bales for transport. 

Certainly loose material has a higher volume than bales. Thus, the appropriate hopper- and loading technology provides a number of advantages.

The loading of bales necessarily requires a repeated treating of the de-inking material.
It has to be pressed, piled up in the storehouse and finally be loaded per front-end loader into the truck. After arriving in the paper mill the bales must be broken up again for processing. Each of these production processes is costly, requiring machines, energy, and personnel.

Looking for alternatives to expensive bale shipping, more and more companies change over to storing and loading of bulk material by means of elevated hoppers.

Several of the most important recycling companies in Germany and France rely on hopper technology with integrated CARG-O-MAT Moving Floor Conveyor developed by the German BRT Recycling Technologie GmbH.

These customers value the elevated hoppers made by BRT as a rational and fast means for materials handling and truck loading.

Bag splitters were designed for processing of lightweight packaging material. 
Consequently, they are almost only used for recovery of such materials.

Should this be all bag splitters could be used for?

Since 15 years, the German BRT Recycling Technologie GmbH has been showing other interesting fields of application for this proven system.

As sole manufacturer of bag splitters in the market, BRT designs machines for processing of MSW and commercial waste. The BRT machines are successfully in use worldwide.

Under the name of SCHLITZ-O-MAT Bag Opener the patented BRT design became a well known brand at tearing speed. The low wear and low servicing requirements contributed to the rapid worldwide success.

Since delivery of the first machine in 1995, to date 260 SCHLITZ-O-MAT Bag Openers were built for the international markets. BRT supplied the first Bag Opener for processing of MSW as early as 1997. It was built fo the waste disposal facilities of the Libanese capital Beirut. 

By now the greater part of this metropolis goes through seven BRT Bag Openers. Further machines of the same type were sold to North and South America, Scandinavia , Great Britain and France . The SCHLITZ-O-MAT machines are manufactured under license in Japan for supplying the Asian markets.

For being able to cope with heavy, inhomogeneous materials and rising throughput rates the SCHLITZ-O-MAT Bag Opener has been constantly advanced.
 
Under the type of MSW, three working widths for heaviest materials and odd sized material components were designed. In 2005, BRT developed SCHLITZ-O-MAT MSW 1-21 for one of the biggest Italian recyclers and customers in the United Arab Emirates . This macine type processes 40 tonnes of material per hour.

Bag Openers for household and commercial waste are a good alternative to using shredders. The first impressing factor is the lower purchase price. The lower power consumption, lower servicing costs, and long service life reduce the operating costs. Thanks to its special design the SCHLITZ-O-MAT Bag Opener is well prepared for coping with disruptive materials.

The SCHLITZ-O-MAT Bag Opener opens the bags leaving its contents almost untouched

The ripping drum separates the material and provides an even material stream which is optimally prepared for subsequent sorting processes. A special sensoric system and the special regulation system help to avoid material jam and breakings of the material flow.

Large recycling companies like e.g. Onyx, Veolia or Remondis are availing themselves of this BRT technology.