Bunting Metal Separators Serve Wood Recyclers

Bunting Magnetics Co., Newton, Kan., has introduced a line of metal separators to serve the wood grinding market.

Bunting stainless steel magnetic head pulleys provide separation in many recycling applications. They use permanent magnets—high-density ceramic or optional rare earth magnets—to separate ferrous debris from intermediate wood material by holding the tramp iron and embedded metal scrap against the conveyor belt and allowing it to fall away from the underside of the conveyor after the clean wood products have been discharged.

Bunting suspended plate magnets and cross-belt separators are two other magnet-based separators that can be used in recycling applications. Both mount just above conveyors to pull tramp iron from moving material. They are frequently used with the company’s head pulleys, capturing the ferrous contaminants from the top layers of material while head pulleys remove the tramp iron located closer to the belt surface.

Bunting suspended plate magnets consist of plate magnets suspended from support cables or from an optional floor-standing metal frame. The cross-belt separator is a small, electrically driven conveyor with a cleated belt wrapped around a large plate magnet suspended by cables. The suspended plate magnets require manual cleaning, while the cross-belt separators are continuously self-cleaning, according to a press release from Bunting.

Bunting also offers a line of electronic metal detectors designed to work individually or in tandem with its magnetic separation equipment.