Metso Launches New Mobile Waste Crusher

Metso Minerals has launched a new track-mounted, mobile device for on-site waste crushing. The device provides a new solution for primary waste crushing, combining features of its Lokotrack track-mounted crushing plants and the Lindemann series of waste crushing equipment. The result is a highly flexible crusher that can operate independently of electricity and road networks for up to three days of operation with no need for refueling. It can serve a number of locations, can be integrated flexibly in a machine assembly or can also be leased out at short notice.

The waste crusher has been designed both for difficult areas and extreme inclines, as well as for difficult materials such as mattresses, carpets, railway sleepers, tree trunks and even thick rolls of paper. Average throughput is between 30-50 tons per hour.

Efficient crushing of bulky waste is crucial for the availability of the entire waste processing plant, as well as for the performance of the downstream sorting and separation technology. The machine will serve well in waste collecting and demolition sites as well as in forests or for agricultural purpose to reduce bulky waste and other bulky residue.

Metso Minerals plans to start serial production of the crusher in 2009.

Dirk Schrader, Product Manager, Environment product group, Metso Minerals, tel. +49 211 2105 386, dirk.schrader@metso.com.