Vecoplan, LLC, a North Carolina-based manufacturer of waste recycling equipment, has been awarded a contract to design and build the front end material processing and preparation system for Brightmark Energy’s new plastics-to-fuel plant in Ashley, Indiana. Vecoplan’s prep system will incorporate a variety of technologies engineered to deliver feedstock that meets specifications vital to the plant’s successful production of transportation fuel.
Slated for completion in mid-2020, Brightmark’s Ashley facility will produce more than 18 million gallons of ultra-low-sulfur diesel and naphtha blend products and six million gallons of commercial-grade wax each year. Feedstock for Brightmark’s Ashley, Indiana plant will include over 100,000 tons of mixed plastic scrap per year. This landfill diversion material will consist of single use and other post-consumer plastics, residuals from material recovery facilities and plastic waste streams.
Highlights of the system include a Vecoplan VAZ 2000 MFTV pre-shredder to achieve a homogenous aggregate size, induction and optical sortation and a Vecoplan VEZ 2500T re-shredder for final sizing of the feedstock.
Published in the July 2019 Edition
