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A sunshine state success story for St. Lucie: durability and engineering excellence let Lubo USA Equipment provide success to C&D recyclers of all types. Look inside for just one example of how Lubo's experienced engineering helped one recycler reach new heights in recycling

Construction & Demolition Recycling, May-June, 2005

Perhaps the point where C&D recycling is more of an art than a science is in the utilization of an air separation system, which St. Lucie County has working with the second starscreen. Because of Lubo's long experience in the European C&D recycling market, the company has refined this technique to the point where it truly works. Air classification systems remove the light fraction of the material, such as small plastic film and paper, and are important for several reasons. First, those little pieces are impossible to pick. Removing them will prevent the material from blowing around. But while St. Lucie County is not using water separation technology (which separates heavier aggregate materials from wood, which will float) with its air classification system, some C&D recycling operations will. By removing this small, light material it will prevent it from floating out and contaminating the wood.

Other components Lubo provided include all the steel structures, stairs, and the three magnets to pull out as much profit-making metal as possible.

Lubo's help in St. Lucie County's recycling efforts doesn't end at the recycling center. The county is going to use a Lubo Neptunus SDL portable starscreen system, to reclaim as much of the landfill as possible. The heavy-duty Neptunus is designed for harsh C&D environment, and at the St. Lucie facility will recover metal, concrete, rock, and roofing tile as much as possible.

Those are just part of the incoming constituents to the St. Lucie County landfill and C&D recycling center. The county did pay for a consultant to do a thorough waste characterization study before it purchased any recycling equipment. "But the studies did not determine the equipment chosen," says Roberts. "We chose Lubo because of the high recovery and production rates that were possible, especially compared to the cost of the equipment. It was no other choice but Lubo."

Pieter R.J. Eenkema van Dijk

President

peenkemavandijk@vandykbaler.com

Erik H. Eenkema van Dijk

Executive Vice President

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Wilfred J. Poiesz

Vice President Western Region

wilfredpoiesz@vandykbaler.com

Peter Bond

Northeast Regional Manager

pbond@vandykbaler.com