Group Brochure April 2013 - Loacker Recycling GmbH

Not just any old iron
People have been melting scrap down ever since the dawn of the Iron Age. These days secondary materials make up about 50% of
the feedstock used to produce steel. Looking at it this way, Loacker’s recycling networks are among Europe’s richest deposits of iron.
Our iron and non-ferrous metal recycling networks stretch from Spain to Ukraine, and from Sicily to northern Sweden and Finland.
Loacker uses and markets light and heavy scrap of all kinds.
For example, we employ state-of-the-art technology to process scrap cars. After the contaminants have been removed the
vehicles are shredded. Up to 80% of a car is recyclable. We use blowtorches and shears to cut heavy scrap such as heavy machinery
and structural steelwork down to the desired sizes. We load the scrap at our own railway sidings and transport it to
the steelworks on wagons.
Shredder
350 tonnes (weight)
1,471 kW (2000 HP) (power)
1.60 m rotor diameter
Equipped with state-of-the-art exhaust scrubbers (dedusters) and wash water treatment systems
Scrap shears
For precompacting
1,500 tonnes cutting power
Baling press
For sheet metal, film and other voluminous materials
350 tonnes pressing power
300 x 300 x 300 mm bales (standard)
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