Eddy Current Separator
The only machine that pulls aluminium and copper out of waste: the high-speed rotor induces currents in the metal, and the resulting field throws it clear of the flow.
Eddy Current Separator
Technical specifications
Sustainability impact
Equipment engineered for long-lasting operation and built from recyclable materials, in line with the principles of the circular economy.
Key features
It recovers the most valuable fraction
aluminium and copper are the best-priced materials in a municipal waste flow, and an eddy current separator is the only way to extract them automatically.
Purity is set from the splitter plate
the splitter plate position decides the balance between how much metal you recover and how clean it is, so you choose the priority.
No contact with the material
separation is done by magnetic field rather than mechanically, so there are no parts that cut or dull against the waste.
Product description
Once the magnetic separator has removed the iron, the metals worth the most are still in the flow: aluminium and copper. They are not magnetic, so they cannot be attracted. An eddy current separator is the only machine that can extract them automatically, and it does so through an elegant…
Once the magnetic separator has removed the iron, the metals worth the most are still in the flow: aluminium and copper. They are not magnetic, so they cannot be attracted. An eddy current separator is the only machine that can extract them automatically, and it does so through an elegant piece of physics. A magnetic rotor spins at very high speed. When a conductive metal passes through this varying field, eddy currents are induced inside it. Those induced currents in turn generate their own magnetic field, which opposes the rotor's field. The metal is effectively repelled, thrown forward over a…
Eddy Current Separator
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Municipal waste
Municipal waste sorting plants, from the bag to recoverable material
Household waste arrives mixed and bagged. A sorting plant opens it, screens it into size fractions, separates the light material from the heavy one and extracts metals, plastic, paper and glass. We configure complete lines and also supply the individual machines, from the bag opener and trommel screen through to the magnetic and eddy current separators, the optical sorters and the balers.
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About Urstag
15 years of experience in recycling equipment
For over 15 years we have delivered premium recycling equipment for PET, metal, textiles, batteries and any recyclable material. Complete lines with European engineering and Asian manufacturing, using motors and automation from Siemens, Schneider Electric, ABB, WEG and SEW-Eurodrive, for high reliability and energy efficiency.