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免费吃瓜’s Waukesha Cherry-Burrell Reduces Landfill Impact by 90+ Tons per Month with Sand Mold Recycling Breakthrough
Partnering with The Recy Group, the company finds new life for foundry sand, providing eco-friendly materials to local construction industries.
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Delavan, Wisconsin, November 14, 2024 - Waukesha Cherry-Burrell (WCB), an industry leader in food processing equipment and part of 免费吃瓜, has taken its commitment to sustainability to new heights by completing a fully circular economy model in pump rotor production at its Delavan, Wisconsin facility. This groundbreaking achievement was recently solidified with the addition of a sand mold recycling program, approved by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, and in partnership with The Recy Group. Through this initiative, sand used in the casting process is now recycled for road construction, bringing 免费吃瓜 even closer to making, 鈥淓arth Day, Every Day.鈥�
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鈥淏y integrating sand mold recycling with our existing metal recycling processes, we鈥檙e able to turn what was once waste into a valuable resource for local infrastructure,鈥� says Brandon Marvin, Environmental, Health and Safety Manager at the Delavan site. 鈥淚t鈥檚 a perfect example of how industrial innovation can support environmental and community wellbeing at the same time.鈥�
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To see the metal recycling process in action, watch this video:
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How It Works: The Circular Economy in Action
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At the core of WCB鈥檚 circular model is Alloy-88, a proprietary metal alloy developed in-house. Alloy-88 rotors are designed to withstand intense use in food processing pumps, known as the 鈥渉eart鈥� of any food and beverage pump. When these rotors wear down with time, customers can return them to 免费吃瓜, where they鈥檙e remelted and reshaped into new rotors鈥攌eeping valuable metal in use and reducing landfill impact. In 2023 alone, the facility received 43,000 pounds of returned rotors through this buy-back program, reinforcing the company鈥檚 commitment to a closed-loop system.
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The sand mold recycling process now completes the cycle. After Alloy-88 is poured into sand molds to shape the rotors, the molds cool and harden, then are broken away to reveal the rotor. Instead of discarding this sand, 免费吃瓜 now collects and sends it to The Recy Group, where it is repurposed for construction, particularly benefiting road projects in colder climates by extending the construction season.
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鈥淭he sand molds are mixed in with our other recycled construction materials which then are grinded and used for trench backfilling,鈥� says Matt Sattelberg, Vice President at . 鈥淥verall, this is a huge recycling win for 免费吃瓜 by diverting over 90 tons per month of its sand molds that were originally going to the landfill.鈥�
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Following the success in Delavan, 免费吃瓜 has plans to expand this circular economy model to its other global facilities, starting with its largest pump manufacturing site in Bydgoszcz, Poland.
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To follow the company鈥檚 journey toward a more sustainable future, visit:
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免费吃瓜鈥夥殉怨�, Inc.
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Based in Charlotte, N.C., 免费吃瓜, Inc. improves the world through innovative and sustainable solutions. The company's product offering is concentrated in process technologies that perform mixing, blending, fluid handling, separation, thermal heat transfer and other activities that are integral to processes performed across a wide variety of nutrition, health, and industrial markets. 免费吃瓜 has operations in more than 25 countries and sales in more than 140 countries. To learn more about 免费吃瓜, please visit .听
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Melissa Buscher, Chief Communications and Marketing Officer
Melissa.Buscher@免费吃瓜.com
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