Waste Shredding Success Stories / TANA Shark 440DT

Shredding car & truck tyres into 80 mm

particle size with TANA Shark 440DT
Rubber waste originated from car and truck tyres is almost equal in heat value as gasoil
and even 25% more effective than coal. There are extremely high quality requirements for
the rubber waste used in the burning process at power plants. The particle size needs to
be homogenous and no remnants of metal wires are tolerated in the furnace.
Quality issues in particle size as well tyres were ripped up with a rented Faster process,
as uneffectiveness in the shredding tyre cutter. Secondly, tyres were pre-
shredded with Doppstadt 3040K. Af-
higher quality and
process were the Achilles heel for our
customer Lassila-Tikanoja Ltd (L&T) ter these phases the particle size was less expenses
who provides rubber waste for the en- still not homogenous enough. For that
ergy industry. L&T has operations in reason, the material needed to be pro- After purchasing the TANA Shark
Finland, Sweden, Latvia and Russia. cessed an additional third time in order 440DT the whole tyre shredding pro-
Earlier, the process of shredding to achieve the required 80 mm particle cess at the L&T site is now handled
car & truck tyres at the L&T site was size and make sure that the end result with one single machine as the Picture
done in three separate phases. First, is pure rubber without any metal wires. 1 below illustrates.

BEFORE Phase 1, rented Phase 2, pre-shredding Phase 3, finalization

tyre cutter with Doppstadt 3040K. into smaller particles.
Capacity 2 tons per hour.
L&T says:
One of the key issues
to purchase TANA Shark
440DT was the fact that
the machine is able to
shred not only tyres but
AFTER Phase 1, pre-shredding with Phase 2, primary shredding with also plastic waste, plastic
TANA Shark 440DT, capacity TANA Shark 440DT. Capacity 12-15 rolls, mattresses and
30 tons per hour. Tyres are cut tons per hour. Pieces are shredded
into 3-6 pieces. to a homogenous 80 mm particle. MSW.

Kari Soini, L&T Finland

+ 600% in
productivity Production Manager
Fuel saved per
year: 40 800 litres

Figure 1. Change of the shredding process after purchasing

TANA Shark 440DT at the L&T site in Turku, Finland.

Contact us: Tana Oy, www.tanarecycling.com, tel: +358 20 7290 240, marketing@tana.fi

As demonstrated above, TANA Shark
440DT takes care of the whole shred-
ding process in two phases. During
the pre-shredding phase the whole car
& truck tyres are cut into 3-6 pieces.
This also loosens the metal wires in-
side the tyres. In this process the ma-
chine is driven with all counter-knives,
Change rotor screens
in 10 minutes!
You can customize the TANA
Shark with different rotor screens
to create particle sizes from 50 to
500 mm. Adding or removing the
rotor screen can be done in only
10 minutes.
Waste Shredding Success Stories / TANA Shark 440DT
without screen and without the over- - What we have learned is that us-
band magnet. ing 75% of the maximum power and
In the primary shredding phase torque for tyres gives us the best oper-
unwanted metal wires are removed by ating efficiency, says Soini.
using an over-band magnet and the
170 mm screen is inserted below the For more information please contact:
rotor to generate the wanted homog- marketing@tana.fi
enous particle size of 80 mm.
- What has amazed us is the
fact that using a single machine gives
us the required end result. If pos-
sible, even more amazing is that this
is achieved with 5-10 litres lower fuel
Did you know?
consumption per hour than before, With the total consumption of
says Kari Soini from L&T Finland.
25-30 litres per hour, TANA
The TANA Control System gives
Shark is the most fuel efficient tyre
L&T the ability to adjust and moni-
shredding multi-use unit on the
tor the usage of the machine. Pre-
programmed settings have been re- market.
ally helpful for them in monitoring and
controlling the fuel consumption.

Photo (above): In the pre-shredding phase TANA Shark 440DT cuts Photo (above): In the primary shredding phase the overband magnet
whole tyres into 3-6 pieces. removes the wires.

About Lassila-Tikanoja Ltd. (L&T)

L&T specializes in environmental management and property plant support services and is a leading supplier of wood-based
biofuels, recovered fuels and recycled raw materials. Net sales in 2012 were EUR 674 million. L&T is listed on NASDAQ OMX
Helsinki. With operations in Finland, Sweden, Latvia and Russia, L&T employs 9,000 persons.

Contact us: Tana Oy, www.tanarecycling.com, tel: +358 20 7290 240, marketing@tana.fi