Adaptable design
Murphy Road Recycling has expanded its MRF’s capabilities by adding Greyparrot Analyzers and more optical sorters.
When Murphy Road Recycling announced plans to rebuild its material recovery facility (MRF) in Berlin, Connecticut, the All American MRF, in March 2021, it sought a processing system that would have the flexibility to adapt to ever-evolving consumer habits and recycling market conditions. With that in mind, Frank M. Antonacci, chief operating officer at Enfield, Connecticut-based Murphy Road Recycling, says the new MRF deliberately was designed to facilitate future upgrades.
“Things are changing every day, and it was nice to have that kind of forethought so we had areas where we could put all this new equipment,” he says.
“We always referred to the machine and operation as a living, breathing beast that would be always changing, along with the ever-changing material stream that we’re seeing. Once we got the initial equipment in—and it’s been working great—it allowed us to see more into the stream and what was available [to recover], and that allowed us to make some even more educated decisions on what additional equipment we wanted to add and what could make the people who are working there a little bit more efficient.”
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