Wire Recovery

Cable materials were often lost in the treatment and sorting processes available till now, which meant a financial loss due to the high proportion of copper they contain. New sorting technologies such as the TITECH finder are now capable of detecting these cables.

A good example of a high-quality product is copper wiring and insulated cables stemming from various treatment processes. Secondary copper smelting plants and cable treatment companies require high-quality input in order to work efficiently. Previously untapped sources of copper in the form of insulated copper cables were residual fractions from treatment processes or hand sorting of fractions such as:

• Heavy shredder fraction (from ELV)
• Light shredder fraction
• E-scrap/ WEEE
• Residual materials and metal product from swim-sink plants

The  combination of two TITECH sorting  technologies finally led to the development of the TITECH finder Poly. The device is equipped with both sensor technologies. The newly developed  sensor  technology and the SUPPIXX® image processing make it possible to detect and separate even the smallest of metal particles.

The  two  signals  are combined  and  processed  to  produce  one  statement. This makes it possible to generate a “cable signal”  from  the  metal  signal  of  the  inductive sensor and the polymer signal of the NIR sensor.

It  has meanwhile become possible to reliably separate metals and copper cables. Cable materials were often lost in the treatment and sorting processes available till now, which meant a financial loss due to the high proportion of copper they contain. New sorting technologies such as the TITECH Finder and the TITECH Finder Poly are now capable of detecting these cables, transferring them to a metal product and then finally sorting them in a further step into a cable fraction of outstanding purity.