Recycling & Waste Processing Equipment
From rugged vibrating equipment to advanced thermal processing systems, Carrier delivers solutions engineered to meet the evolving demands of recycling and waste processing operations. Our technologies support critical processes such as conveying, feeding, screening, drying, cooling, and material classification helping facilities efficiently recover valuable materials and reduce landfill volume.
Recyling & Waste Processing Solutions
Recycling and waste processing facilities handle some of the most demanding and variable material streams in any industry. From wet plastics and glass cullet to used beverage containers, construction debris, and municipal solid waste, maintaining throughput, material quality, and equipment uptime across shifting feedstock conditions requires purpose-built solutions.
Carrier Vibrating Equipment designs and builds vibrating conveyors, feeders, fluid bed dryers, coolers, and fully integrated processing systems engineered for lithium carbonate, lithium hydroxide, calcined spodumene, cathode materials, and recycled battery feedstocks.
Carrier Vibrating Equipment designs and builds vibrating conveyors, fluid bed dryers, screeners, and air knife separators engineered for aluminum scrap, glass cullet, recovered plastics, cardboard, paper, mixed metals, and construction and demolition waste.
Our systems deliver efficient separation, reliable drying, precise classification, and continuous-duty performance that keeps recycling and waste processing lines running at maximum efficiency.
Improve Throughput and Material Quality in Your Recycling Operation
Carrier engineers evaluate your waste stream characteristics, moisture levels, throughput targets, and separation requirements to design a custom-engineered solution for your facility.
Engineered for Recycling & Waste Processing
Multi-Function Conveying for Mixed Waste Streams
Vibrating conveyors handle paper, cardboard, glass, and plastics without the entrapment and belt damage common in traditional conveyors, and can be designed to simultaneously dry, cool, orient, separate, and distribute material in a single pass.
Precise Moisture Removal Before Downstream Processing
Fluid bed dryers remove moisture from recycled materials including washed plastics and UBC aluminum scrap that would otherwise cause processing problems, furnace hazards, or product quality issues.
Wet and Dry Screening for Any Material
Screeners are built for both wet and dry applications, with multiple independently designed decks for custom particle size separation, removing fines, debris, and oversize material from any recycled stream.
Efficient Contaminant Separation
Air knife separators use high-velocity airflow over a vibrating conveyor to cleanly separate light materials from heavy ones, removing debris from metal, plastic, and paper streams to improve bale and alloy quality.
Glass Cullet Quenching and Cooling
Air knife separators use high-velocity airflow over a vibrating conveyor to cleanly separate light materials from heavy ones, removing debris from metal, plastic, and paper streams to improve bale and alloy quality.
Recycling & Waste Processing Pain Points
Why Recycling & Waste Processors Choose Carrier Vibrating Equipment
Equipment for Waste & Recycling
Carrier vibrating conveyors utilize controlled, natural-frequency vibrations to efficiently transport, separate, and process bulk materials across the waste and recycling industry. Featuring a solid, one-piece trough with few moving parts in the product flow eliminates snags, belt failures, and clogging common to traditional rubber belt conveyors.
Manage and meter bulk recyclable materials at controlled rates, ensuring a steady, even flow into downstream equipment such as crushers, screeners, and separators. Carrier’s vibratory feeders optimize production efficiency, reduce downtime, and handle heavy, abrasive loads typical in the waste and recycling industries.
Carrier vibrating screeners provide classification, sorting, and separation of mixed material streams by size and composition. They effectively separate plastics, glass, metals, and organic waste from mixed streams like municipal solid waste (MSW) or construction and demolition (C&D) debris.
Our finger screeners are ideal for pre-screening and separating bulky materials by size and are highly effective at preventing the clogging, interlacing, and jamming commonly caused by mixed waste streams.
Carrier’s air knife separators use targeted, high-velocity airstreams to automatically separate lighter, low-value waste materials (like paper, film, and plastics) from heavier, valuable commodities (such as metals and glass) based on their weight and aerodynamic properties
As the material free-falls off the end of the conveyor, it passes through a high-velocity air curtain or nozzle. The heavy items fall straight through the airstream and drop onto a collection chute or belt. The lighter materials are blown by the air into an extraction hood or separation hopper.
Carrier’s static/cionventional fluid bed dryers are specialized thermal processing systems designed to safely and efficiently remove moisture from recycled materials. By blowing heated, pressurized gas through a bed of solid particles, they maximize heat and mass transfer to process fine particles.
Ideal for waste streams that have a similar particle sizes. Finer particulates can be rapidly blown out (entrained) into the exhaust and dust collection system
Vibrating fluid bed dryers from Carrier are an ideal and customizable solution for efficiently removing moisture from recycled materials that may otherwise cause issues with processing. From UBC aluminum scrap, plastics that have been cleaned and washed, any other waste products that must be dried before going into the furnace, vibratory fluid bed dryers can obtain desired moisture requirements.
Highly versatile and ideal for stubborn, non-uniform, or fibrous waste materials. The mechanical vibration prevents clumping, breaks up agglomerates, and ensures sticky or dense materials are effectively conveyed through the dryer without forming wet or hot spots.
Supported Materials
Carrier equipment is used across a wide range of recycling and waste processing applications, including:
Applications & Capabilities
Carrier vibrating systems support every major recycling and waste processing stage. Each system is custom-engineered to match feedstock characteristics, separation targets, throughput requirements, and plant layout.
Conveying & Material Handling
Drying & Moisture Removal
Quenching & Cooling
Screening & Classification
Air Knife Separation
System Integration
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Request a Custom Waste & Recycling Processing Evaluation
Whether you are drying UBC aluminum before furnace charging, separating contaminants from plastic bales, screening glass cullet, or conveying mixed waste streams, Carrier Vibrating Equipment can engineer a system designed for your material and production targets. Contact Carrier Vibrating Equipment to schedule your recycling and waste processing application review:
FAQs – Recycling & Waste Processing Equipment
Test Waste & Recycling Materials with Carrier
Our testing laboratory is available for testing C&D waste, UBC’s, MSW, and a variety of other waste materials. Testing equipment from other CPEG companies is also available for mult-step processing simulation.