Baler or Compactor, which one is right for you?

If your business involves regular handling of waste material, a waste compactor or a baler can help make your task much easier. What’s the difference between a compactor and a baler? How can you determine which one suits your needs the best? Here is a comparison to help you choose the right machine:

Material Type:
Compactors are used to compress a large amount of unsorted mixed waste into a contained area to be picked up and collected by waste collector and further delivered to landfill.
Balers are for compressing recyclable materials sorted from general waste stream, such as paper, cardboard, plastics, metal etc., into dense and regularly shaped bales for further recycling and reuse.

Destination:
Waste recyclers may prefer to receive recyclable materials in a specific weight and/or size. Transportation of dense bales is cost-effective. Baler is the right choice in this case.
If a trash collector is picking up the finished units, larger loads from a compactor are preferred.

In general, a baler is used to bale or bundle recyclable material such as cardboard, paper, plastics, metal etc., for resale to a recycling company. A compactor is simply used to reduce the volume of trash before being picked up by a hauling company.

With the right understanding of the two machines, you can decide which machine is the correct one for your business. SINOBALER is a specialized manufacturer of a wide range of balers, and if you need balers, please feel free to contact our Sales Representative at info@sinobaler.com for more information.

Conveyors

Conveyor is a common piece of mechanical handling equipment that moves materials from one location to another. With the increased demand of an automated operation, more and more industries prefer to use conveyor to replace manual transportation and handling of goods. This is also the case in waste management and recycling business, more clients tend to have conveyor connection with baler for ease of operation and saving labor.

There are mainly two types of conveyor that are used for Sinobaler baling machines.

1. Heavy Duty Steel Chain Conveyor
2. Belt Conveyor

The Heavy Duty Steel Chain conveyor is usually used together with heavy duty type of horizontal baler, like Sinobaler manual tie horizontal balers and automatic horizontal balers, for conveying waste material like cardboard, paper, films and other bulky materials into the balers. Since these horizontal balers are with higher capacity than the average vertical balers, so conveyor for such balers need to be built in a tough and strong way for conveying large amount of materials. This heavy duty steel chain conveyor as its name suggest is with complete steel construction with an average weight of above 7 tons. It also has a horizontal part which you can bury below ground level for very convenient feeding.

Belt Conveyor adopts high strength PVC conveying belt and damper ensuring no material spillage. It is widely used to transport small to medium sized materials, such as used clothes, small carton boxes, PET bottles, aluminum cans etc. At SINOBALER, they are usually connected with our horizontal bagging baler for conveying wood shavings, rice husk etc.
It can also be connected with vertical balers.

To obtain more knowledge about conveyor and baling machines, Sinobaler experts are very glad to help you.

Banana Fiber

From the fruits to the flowers and the leaves, every part of the banana plant can be put into some kind of use. While we eat the banana fruit, the plant also provides us with valuable fiber. Fiber can be extracted from the bark of the banana tree and then be used to make various products ranging from decorative items to paper and fabric.

Among the wide uses of banana fiber, making into fabric is one of the most important and most beneficial thing. It has become a popular raw material for making high quality textile.

Banana fiber is the best natural fiber which is eco-friendly and chemical free, compared with high-cost synthetic fiber and any other organic fiber, banana fiber features healthy, economic, water, heat and fire resistant, grease proof, totally bio-degradable, stronger spinning ability and tensile strength, light weight, smaller elongation, strong moisture absorption ability and fast moisture release ability.

Banana fiber is mainly made up of cell tissue and bonded by natural gums and its appearance is very like natural bamboo fiber, but banana fiber is much finer and stronger spin ability than bamboo fiber. The cloth made from banana fiber is very comfortable to wear and reduce off the scorching heat because it has cooling effect, and this kind of cloth does not shrink and the colors do not fade after wash. The fabric can be made of 100% banana fiber, or blended with other fiber like cotton to make it more durable.

For example, Saris is one kind of textile product made from natural fiber like banana fiber. In Philippines, people use the banana fiber to make shirts and other dresses. In Japan, the history of using banana fiber for cloth can be date back to at least 13th century.

In the banana fiber business, many banana fiber manufacturers face a lot of difficulty in transporting the finished banana fiber and difficult for loading and unloading, and also takes them a lot of space for storage. All of these difficulties are because they are transporting and storing the banana fiber without baling. SINOBALER provides you suitable and ideal baling solutions to solve all these difficulties and saves your transportation and storage cost. For example, SINOBALER Multi-purpose Vertical Baler is a good choice to make bale weight ranging from 20kgs to 100kgs. Or many other balers are available for different bale weight expectation.

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