The company motto is Recycling to preserve our environment . This is exactly what they are doing with recycled products ranging from paper and plastic to many types of metals. The memo will focus on the Holland facility and its hot briquetting operation. The overall idea behind the briquetting operation is to turn metal borings and turnings into a dense, reusable form. The process starts by pre-processing metal turnings.
Turnings are usually long and tangly.
This makes them difficult to run through the briquetting equipment. To help the material flow through the briquetting equipment, the turnings are shredded into a fine sand like structure. This process is not required for cast iron borings because borings by nature have a sand like structure. From this point the granular metal is fed into a rotating furnace. The metal is heated and dropped into a rotating briquette press.