Gent, Belgium: Two years after the installation of the first BIG E-Crane to offload Panamax-size vessels at the Van Heyghen Recycling export terminal in the harbor of Ghent, Belgium, E-Crane is proud to announce that they have now received the order for a second identical unit.
In the past, the scrap loading, unloading and stockpiling operations on the dock were carried out by contracted large rubber tired mobile harbor cranes. Now that the first E-Crane has proven itself for several years and has passed numerous tests verifying reliability and hourly production rates with flying colors, it is time to move forward again. The first E-Crane has realized ship loading rates that were 100% higher (!) when compared with the mobile harbor cranes. The filling factor of the 12 m3/15 yd3 grab with fast opening and closing times also provides a substantial contribution in achieving these unsurpassed loading and unloading rates.
Rik Debaere, CEO of the Galloo Group, reported as follows: “The E-Crane at Van Heyghen has shown us clearly that the loading of scrap into large ocean going vessels on our export terminal at Ghent could be done with more efficiency, with increased safety and in a more economical manner when compared with the past. With the investment in a second dock side E-Crane we can offer our worldwide clientele better service and we can optimize the use of our quay by substantially reducing vessel loading times.”
The delivery of this second big E-Crane, the fourth E-Crane on the terminal, is planned for the third quarter of 2012. |
About the Galloo Group
The Galloo Recycling Group is one of the leading recycling companies for the recycling of ferrous and non-ferrous metals in all of Western Europe. Its many branches in Flanders, Wallonia and the North of France make for strong roots within this region.
An ecologic approach to recycling
The Galloo Recycling Group has coined an industrial converting process to recycle scrap from consumer goods (cars, white and brown goods) and factory scrap in an ecological way. By converting waste products into secondary raw materials, we contribute to a cleaner environment.
A professional approach to recycling
Our goal is 100% valorisation. Up-to-date machinery proves our professional and industrial approach.
- 3 shredders
- 2 balers
- 1 kondirator
- 3 LTRBs
- 3 zerdirators
- 1 flotation line
- 9 shears
Our experienced engineers continue to develop new techniques that enable us to achieve our goal.
Recycling scrap is primarily realized by three machines: the baler, the shear and the shredder. The first two machines only use pure material, such as new production waste, steel strips, heavy scrap iron, ...
The shredder processes the other scrap, such as car wrecks, household appliances and the like. When the material comes out of the shredder, we are left with three fractions:
- Shredder iron, immediately ready to use in the steel industry.
- Shredder residue.
- Non-ferrous mix.
Both the shredder residue and the non-ferrous mix are processed again in one of our very own creations, the LTRB. This treatment breaks up the material, again in different fractions.
- Heavy AFSR (Alternative Fuel from Shredder Residue): mainly rubber and wood that undergo thermal valorization in the cement industry.
- Inert fraction: implementation in the construction of roads.
- Synthetic fraction: Galloo-Plastics, recycling of material.
- Non-ferrous metals + rocks + copper wire + residual fraction (40%): This material is processed in Galloometal, where it is possible to separate the non-ferrous metals from rocks and the residual fraction by means of flotation, amongst other things. The non-ferrous metals are sorted according to sort.
Source:
www.galloo.com |
