Pratt Industries announce opening of new MRF in Conyers

By  Paul Ploumis 23 Sep 2015  Last updated at  07:53:00 GMT

SPOKANE (Scrap Monster): Conyers, Georgia-based Pratt Industries has opened its newest material recycling facility (MRF), completing the final phase of its “eco-campus” expansion in Conyers. The new facility is capable of receiving materials from both municipal and commercial recycling streams. The facility incorporates equipment from Quebec-based Machinex which could recover mixed fiber and process old corrugated containers (OCC).

The new facility offers flexibility to route the input stream based on operator preference. The testing process revealed that the system could process materials at 32 tons per hour, quite higher when compared with the original machine capacity of 25 to 30 tons per hour claimed by the company. The new MRF, located at 1920 Sarasota Business Parkway, features the most advanced sorting equipment in the industry, thus making it the most advanced MRF in Georgia. The advanced facility includes a shredder, a heavy-light separator, three ferrous magnets, two nonferrous separators, a drum feeder, a back-scraping drum and a truck loading station.

According to the company, the MRF has a processing capacity of nearly 10,500 tons per month, including 5,000 tons of mixed paper, which will be fed into the paper mill on the same campus. The system will also produce fuel from non-recyclable materials for the on-site clean-energy plant.

Pratt Industries has shown dramatic growth in just two decades to become the fifth largest Corrugated Packaging Company in the USA and the world's largest, privately-held 100% recycled paper and packaging company. Pratt operates an extensive Recycling Subsidiary to supply the most modern containerboard system in North America with 100% recycled paper. It has more than 100 facilities across the US and Mexico and employs nearly 5,000 people.