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Job Report
The Liebherr L 524 and L 542 wheel loaders in use for collecting recyclable material at Böhme GmbH in Rehau
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Böhme was founded as a haulage company in 1938 by Willy Böhme in Rehau. In 1951 the company added trench and sewer cleaning divisions. In 1954 the company extended its activities to include waste disposal. Böhme GmbH Wertstofferfassung was founded in 1985 by Rudolf Böhme and is primarily focused on the collection and sorting of recyclable materials such as green, brown, clear and mixed glass, aluminum and tin cans, paper and plastic packaging waste and waste paper. The company has a storage capacity of approx. 1,500 tonnes for deliveries of paper. The company also has a storage capacity of approx. 200 tonnes for plastics. At full capacity the workforce works a 4-shift model on every day of the week. Today the company is managed by Stefan Böhme, Rudolf Böhme’s son.
Once all the recyclables have been collected on the large storage sites, they are transported to a material preparation system for sorting. They are transported on conveyor belts. To ensure that the materials are evenly distributed on the belts they are first fed into metering bunkers. After the initial automatic sorting process in the system, the recyclables are sorted manually. The next step is to press the fractions into homogeneous bales for transporting in a bale press, after which they are pushed into the bale storage facility where they are stored separately by material type. After this they can be delivered to recycling contractors.
The company has been using three Liebherr L 524 wheel loaders for several years. These operate for around 2,500 hours per year and are used to form the waste into heaps and then feed it on to the conveyor belts. The Liebherr wheel loaders have proved to be an invaluable tool both for forming the heaps near the sorting system and in the actual material handling process. Since the wheel loaders can be used for a wide range of jobs in the company and the management team are delighted with them, the company placed an order for another wheel loader in spring 2013, but this time an L 542.
2 L 524 - L 542
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