This project is aimed at planning, building and running a recycling facility to process the light rejects of a paper mill which, alongside heavy impurities and broke, regularly approach a total volume of 50,000 t/a. This is being carried out with the intention of generating an integrated solution for producing highly processed energy pellets with standard fuel properties. These pellets are sold to and implemented at co-incineration plants and power stations.

Reject processing - with its core waste management processes, such as shredding, drying, decontamination, pelleting and silo storage - follows the paper manufacturing process and likewise incorporates a building structure and complex automated systems as well as a comprehensive conveyer system. During the waste treatment process, larger material flows are dried at a lower temperature level. Following on from this, extremely small particles are separated to produce pellets with a diameter of between 8-12 mm. This concept is aimed at transforming part of the material flow into a qualified, saleable by-product.
This also has a sustainable influence on the reduction of our CO₂ footprint as proceeding in this way eliminates the downstream disposal routes that were previously required. The result is a successfully installed ”zero waste process” which sustainably reduces the dependence on conventional disposal processes with their familiar bottlenecks and costs. The pellets are supplied directly to the users in the factory as a substitute for fossil fuels. The physical nature of the pellets allows optimal usage of the available warehouse capacity. This makes low-cost logistic processes, such as ship transportation, possible and means that a much larger circle of users can be reached. Another step on the road to achieving a significant reduction in CO₂ levels.

Due to its positive properties, GRP is extremely popular in numerous areas, such as in the production of rotor blades for wind turbines, the shipbuilding trade and the automotive industry. Due to being durable, flexible and easy to process during production, GRP can be used in a multitude of applications. However, up until now, recycling options for GRP have been rather limited.

Simply dumping GRP waste at landfill sites has been banned since 2005 and incinerating it in specially designed facilities is only possible to a limited degree. neocomp offers an economically viable solution for recycling GRP using a special process - particularly important in view of the current discussion on how to recycle an increasing number of worn-out rotor blades.