Wasted product makes a recovery
April 1st 2006

A specially designed recovery unit has been launched by Carlisle Process Systems (CPS) to allow processors of liquid foods to recover products from rejected cartons, cups and plastic bottles.

The unit is an upgrade of the CPS Damrow Carton Compressor and has been developed to save labour costs by easily emptying and compressing up to 8000 packages per hour. Recovered products are collected in a sump where it can be pumped away for further processing and the emptied packages exit into a waste bin or onto a conveyor belt for recycling.

Managing director of CPS, Charles Todd, spoke of the benefits of using the liquid recovery unit: "Processors now have the option to save valuable products that would otherwise have been wasted, whilst meeting environmental obligations by easily recycling the damaged bottles."

The original CPS Damrow Carton Compressor is capable of processing a range of cartons and cups, but special engineering from CPS has allowed the upgraded unit to handle plastic bottles - with their caps on!

During operation a star wheel pushes the packages in between heavy-duty steel belts where the packages are crushed and the product drains off.