Flip Screen mobile screening attachment has found a solid market in the scrap metal and other recycling industries with customers around the globe adopting the technology.

Flip Screen’s range of screening attachments use a continuous 360 degree rotating action to separate different sized materials, such as steel and dirt. As the flip screen attachment rotates the finer materials are sieved through a mesh screen, whilst the larger materials are trapped inside. Upon counter rotating the larger materials are ejected from the bucket, leaving two distinctly sized stockpiles of materials.

At a large Bradken foundry, the company used its E130 flip screen with a Hitachi 270 excavator to recover scrap steel from thousands of tons of waste casting sand and soil.

John McNab of Bradken said, “the flip screen has been a great piece of equipment to have in the reclamation of foundry scrap and allows us to sell the sand.”

On the type of scrap being sorted McNab said that the flip screen recovered “any scrap from casting risers, runners to reinforcing, just about anything put into the molds.”

The recovered steel was fed back into the foundry with the company estimating that payback on the purchase value of the unit occurs every three and a half weeks.

McNab added, “the flip screen has been absolutely brilliant in this operation, reclaim has doubled since we started to utilize the screen.”

The flip screen has models to suit a wide range of excavators, skid steers, wheel loaders, backhoes and telehandlers. The high tensile mesh screens range in opening size from .75 to 12 in. (1.9 to 30.5 cm) and use a latch mechanism that enables them to be swapped over in around 4 minutes, according to the company.

ELG Recycling Processors used the flip screen to remove contaminates such as dirt and dust from stainless steel.

David Beardshall of ELG said, “the flip screen has very quickly become an integral part of our quality control here at ELG.”

ELG used an E80 flip screen in its operation, which suits excavators from 40,700 to 55,000 lbs. (18,460 to 24,9500 kg).

Beardshall added, “the flip screen is exceeding our expectations on all fronts including ease of use, tonnage of material processed and actual steel recovered. I would have no problem with recommending the flip screen to anyone else either within our group or someone independent.”

Flip Screen will exhibit its product line at the International Scrap Recycling Institute’s Expo (Booth A9) at the end of April in Las Vegas.

For more information, visit www.flipscreen.net.

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