Spring Resources Ltd  works in conjunction with other manufacturers to offer full turnkey MRF and SUW systems.  The experienced Spring Resources staff can offer consultancy on all requirements for MRFs followed by full design and installation, and after sales servicing. Because of their experience in such a wide range of applications, they are able to offer the most appropriate solution for each individual requirement, designing special purpose machinery and tailor-made turnkey systems. HTC ThunderBolt 4G extended battery HTC ThunderBolt 4G extended battery

The company is constantly seeking to develop its potential and is establishing itself now as a major player in the recycling industry and in MRF operations. Its Excel range of balers have been sold worldwide for a very wide range of applications and a number are currently operating within MRFs in the UK, for example for Onyx, Halls Waste, Shanks & McEwan and others. Last year, Spring Resources won the franchise to sell the Imabe range of recycling and waste processing machinery. Imabe Iberica was incorporated in 1975 in Spain, initially marketing to small metal, paper and cardboard scrap yards with a need for small machinery. The company grew from there commercially and moved to a new premises of 344,320 square feet, with a large factory capable of producing much larger machinery and systems, with further expansion in mind. It is now probably one of the largest designers and manufacturers of complete turnkey materials recycling facilities for the sorting and treatment of all forms of waste. Imabe concentrated their efforts initially in Spain, Portugal and South America and then sought to penetrate markets in the Middle East, Malaysia, the Philippines, Russia and Vietnam. In all these places they have been very successful and they have supplied large amounts of equipment and many very big plants dealing with very high throughputs of waste. They developed in 1993 the unique AImabe system@ for the high density compaction and automatic baling of municipal solid waste which offers both economic and ecological advantages, doubling the useful life of landfill sites, reducing pollution by leachates, reducing unpleasant smells, eliminating vermin and saving on machinery and manpower. The system has won several awards for excellence in environmental projects.

Imabe have also developed a Solid Waste Processing and Recycling Plant which was designed for the integral processing and recovery of waste fractions gathered in a selective collection. This system operates in Madrid, where each householder has two types of waste bag, one for organic and food remains, and a second for all recyclable materials such as paper/cardboard, Atetrapaks@, glass, plastics, cans etc. The system consists of two parallel sorting lines, each with a nominal throughput of 15 metric tonnes or 100 cubic metres per hour, and works two shifts of 8 hours per day. The waste arrives in from collection vehicles, where it is tipped on top of conveyors which carry it up to a sorting cabin. Here oversized items are removed, before the waste goes through to bag openers which tear open the bags and loosen the material.  It then passes through to a sorting area with 18 sorting positions, where different materials are sorted and sent through to a series of hoppers and silos below. This area has an aspiration system with two suction mouths at either end of each line. Plastic bags and other light materials are hand lifted by the operators and then suctioned and cycloned to a baling press. The hoppers under the sorting area are linked either to the conveyor to  an automatic baling press or to the conveyor to a plastics shredder. There is also a carousel type device linked to the ninth silo for plastic bottles which discriminates them by colour.  The remaining material from the sorting area above carries on under an overband magnet which separates the ferrous material which is sent to a separate baler, and across a vibrating table which takes the non-ferrous metals out and directs them to a baler.  What is left after all this falls to a compactor for landfill. The whole plant recycles 80% of the waste received there.

The Imabe systems and the mainstay of their normal manufacturing include: