UK engineering design and development company, International Innovative Technologies Ltd (IIT) has secured an order for a milling system using its fine grinding technology for waste glass recycling.
IIT will supply a complete turnkey fine grinding and process management installation for a new glass recycling operation in Vilnius, Lithuania.
The installation will comprise its latest generation m-series twin mill grinding equipment, with a particle size classifier and product collection unit, plus supporting equipment.
The customer, Aqua Bona, will use the system as the focal point of a new operation that will convert waste glass into a fine powder suitable for incorporation in paints and other products, as well as for use in water filtration systems.
IIT’s Lithuanian order follows closely on the recent supply and installation of a glass milling system in Portugal, where waste glass is being reduced to a granular material for re-use in the manufacture of glass bottles and containers.
The application shows how IIT’s fine grinding technology can be used to convert what would otherwise be regarded as waste glass into a re-usable, higher value commercial product.
IIT chairman Tom Wilkinson, said: “This is an important order for the company, both in terms of value and also in demonstrating how our specialist technology can meet the fine grinding requirements of waste materials that have previously been regarded as uneconomic.
“The low energy features of the m-series systems are opening up new opportunities in the recycling of glass waste, where turning the scrap into a fine powder rather than consigning it to landfill means that it can be economically used for recycling, either in the batch mix or in other applications of the sort we are now seeing in Lithuania.”
The system for supply to Lithuania is in design and development and is due to be delivered in June.
