The recycling industry has a particularly large key role to play in the sustainability process, as the energy-intensive processes offer a great deal of potential for optimisation with new technologies. Conserving natural resources is a priority today, so an increasing proportion of raw materials must be obtained from secondary raw materials. This method consumes less energy and is therefore cheaper and less harmful to the environment. It can therefore be assumed that the recycling in-dustry will remain stable even in times of declining consumption and stagnation in other sectors.
Recycling, like any other business, must be profitable. One of the most effective ways to improve profitability is to reduce costs. Preferably where they are incurred the most. What does that look like in the recycling industry, where large amounts of energy are consumed? Much of the cost in the industrial recycling process is associated with the use of machines driven by powerful electric motors: Shredders, compressors, induction furnaces, conveyors, crushers and many others.
This area is closely associated with Mitsubishi Electric. The company has been successfully looking for ways to reduce power consumption for decades.
Mitsubishi Electric's expertise, experience in supporting companies in various fields and extensive product portfolio can also be used in the secondary raw materials industry.
Especially useful are proven solutions for:
- Drive technology (frequency converters and motors);
- Power supply (medium voltage switchgear, low voltage switchgear);
- Monitoring of power consumption and power quality;
- Programmable Logic Controllers (MELSEC);
- Control, monitoring and maintenance of production equipment (large area monitors, visuali-sation software and SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition);
- Edge computing (MELPIC industrial computers and related software);
