Dive Brief:
- Sweed Machinery, Inc., a manufacturer of shredding machinery, announced an improvement to its modular wire and cable separation system.
- The updated system, the Sweed Sifter, is able to increase the amount of copper wire that can be extracted from scrap.
- The sifter can be added onto a Sweed separation system or other manufacturer’s equipment to obtain the higher recovery rates.
Dive Insight:
The sifter can improve copper recovery rates by 0.2% to 0.3% input weight , recovering up to 40 pounds of copper per hour.