Swedish recycling firm Ragn-Sells is in the process of expanding its operations with the addition of new sorting and baling equipment at its plants in Karlstad, Norrköping and Örebro, Sweden.
The company has purchased two new Presona LP 85 VH2 balers, designed to allow it to bale scrap paper it sends to papermaker Pressretur, which has locations in Värmland, Östergötland and Närke, Sweden.
Ragn-Sells says it also will be able to process more corrugated cardboard, plastic and other materials with the new equipment.
Ragn-Sells purchased its first Presona baler in 2006, when it won a contract from Pressretur in Värmland. That baler was installed in Karlstad.
“When we were due to start baling waste paper in Karlstad, we of course looked at solutions from various suppliers. The result was that we decided on a baling press from Presona, an LP 80 VH1, and it has been working really well ever since,” says Lars Nordström, Ragn-Sell’s departmental manager for Värmland/Örebro. “The company eventually grew with larger quantities of waste paper, but also corrugated cardboard and plastic. As a result, in recent years we had to run three shifts.”
Presona says Ragn-Sells’ decision to purchase the new machines also involved the addition of higher capacity balers. Based on the company’s previous experiences from Karlstad, Ragn-Sells now operates seven Presona balers in its Swedish operations.
The new balers are supplied with Presona’s sorting lines, where material that is not to be included in the process is manually removed to meet the paper mills’ quality requirements.
According to Presona, the new balers were expected to be operating by the end of April 2015.
Meanwhile, the company’s original baler in Karlstad, where it had operated for almost 10 years, has been moved and is now operating in Örebro.
“Currently we do not need as much capacity in Örebro as in Karlstad, so the simplest and best solution was simply to move the old baler there,” Nordström says. “It has been properly serviced and parts had been replaced as they wore out, so it works really well and has many years of service left in it. And of course re-using is the most efficient form of recycling, which is something we are specialists in.”