Automate to save money

Strautmann’s BaleTainer is designed for distribution centres as a low cost, small footprint, high performance, automatic tie baler. It tackles the compaction of cardboard, polythene film and PET-bottles.

The company says: "With its massive infeed system, swing plate and rotor, the BaleTainer easily compacts cardboard pallets, furniture boxes and octabins into 500kg mill size bales that are automatically tied and ejected from the machine.”

Key features of the products include:
• A fully automatic tie baler that can be installed inside or out without additional protection.
• Bales 1.5 tonne per hour.
• Small footprint.
• Large infeed aperture 1100 x 2000mm even takes cardboard pallets and opti-bins.
• Auto feed via shredder rotor from hopper to press chamber.
• Can be loaded by hand, off-dock, conveyor, chute or bin tipper.
• 60 tonne compaction force generates 500kg wire tied bales.
• Uniform mill size bales delivering 24 tonne payloads for maximum returns.
• Typically half the price of alternate large fully automatics and half the space.
• Simple operation and maintenance.

The AutoLoadBaler is a self loading vertical baler which is said to have a  lower cost and smaller footprint than horizontal semi-automatic balers.
Cardboard boxes are collected in the warehouse using 1,000 litre bins that come with the machine. When full, each bin is pushed into the side of the baler which automatically raises the bin floor, forcing the material within up into a set of rotors that feed the material into the bale chamber where it is compacted into 500kg mill size bales.

Key features of the products include:
• Labour saving features including auto start, auto cycle, auto full, easy wire tie and error diagnostics. Reduced labour costs of up to 400 hours pa per 100 tonne of cardboard baled have been recorded.
• Integrated pre-crush means boxes do not have to be broken down.
• Auto feed via shredder rotor from hopper to press chamber.
• It can also be loaded conventionally.
• Lower cost and smaller footprint than horizontal semi-automatic balers.
• 53 tonne compaction force generating 500kg wire tied bales.
• Uniform mill size bales delivering 24 tonne payloads for maximum returns.

Another new product is the Strautmann LiquiDrainer, which deals with packaged liquid waste products. The drained packaging is automatically compacted into briquettes or bales using a BrikPress or BaleTainer to compact to 24t payloads and maximum rebates from waste.

The LiquiDrainer empties filled PET bottles, TetraPak cartons and beverage cans. As entire multi-packs of product can be automatically loaded and processed at up to 21,000 units per hour (depending on size), high-cost manual opening of waste product packs is no longer necessary.

Key features of the products include:
• Small footprint, lightweight and mobile.
• Stainless Steel construction.
• Up to 21,500 x 250ml or 7,200 x 1.5l bottles emptied per hour.
• Large hopper accepts shrink-wrapped 6 packs.
• Fully automatic integration into plants possible.
• Indoor or outdoor siting possible with integrated tanks and pumps available.
• Destruction of products.
• Integration into a baling press for profitable marketing of the packaging waste.

The Strautmann StyroPress compacts EPS (Styropor) into briquettes with a volume reduction of up to 97%. Using a prefill hopper it can be filled and left to run automatically for up to eight hours with no operator.