Doubling Down on Plastics Recycling

September 8, 2022

Butler-MacDonald, Inc. is a plastics recycling specialist which takes great pride in processing hard-to-handle plastic scrap from various sources, including post-industrial and post-consumer waste streams.

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A ribbon-cutting ceremony was recently held inside the walls of the Butler-MacDonald, Inc. facility in Indianapolis, Indiana, to mark the commissioning of the newest addition to its plastic recycling operation—a WEIMA W5.22 single-shaft shredder for industrial plastic scrap. This is the second WEIMA shredder the company has purchased, allowing the company to divert tons of plastic waste from landfills and give it new life.

butler macdonald employees in front of a big weima shredder inside a production hall

The Butler-MacDonald team commissioned the new WEIMA shredder with a ribbon cutting ceremony!

The WEIMA W5.22, previously known as the WEIMA WKS 2200, is equipped with a swing ram and a hydraulic package to meet the demands of the complex plastic waste streams that Butler-MacDonald is renowned for processing. This is the second pre-shredder the company has purchased from WEIMA. The first shredder, a WLK 18 Jumbo with a hydraulic package, is still in operation on a separate line within the plant. The addition of the W5.22 will allow the company to recycle even more complex materials, including bulky PE purgings, glass-filled nylons, and plastics mixed with metals or other foreign materials.

About Butler-MacDonald, Inc.

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USA
Indianapolis, IN
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~65
Employees
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3
Shifts
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The throughput of the WEIMA W5.22 is maximized because of the swing-ram design. Gravity is continuing to feed the material toward the rotor even when the swing-ram arm is “back.” This shredder also functions at higher horsepower, but because of the way the machine is configured, it is more energy efficient than some machines with lower horsepower. Energy savings doubles down on the company’s desire to help the environment.

weima shredder type w5.22 on concrete floor inside a production hall

WEIMA W5.22 single-shaft shredder

Why WEIMA?

Scott Johnson, CEO/President of Butler-MacDonald, stated that, despite having worked with other shredder manufacturers in the past, their positive experience with their first WEIMA machine, as well as the capabilities of the new shredder’s ram design and hydraulic package, led him to purchase a second WEIMA shredder. He worked with WEIMA to determine the ideal technical configuration to get the torque they needed to handle these tougher applications.

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“The delivery process, as well as the price point, were good. I’ve enjoyed the relationship we have with WEIMA.”

Scott Johnson, CEO/President of Butler-MacDonald, Inc.

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Specialists in recycling

The scrap is sourced from a few different places. About half of their business includes working directly with manufacturers. In these cases, they take the manufacturing scrap, process it on site, and then send it back to the company to be reused or reincorporated into their production streams. The company also purchases various scrap to be size-reduced and sold to other companies who are looking to use more recycled materials in their manufacturing processes.

Butler-MacDonald, Inc., is so well-known for its robust recycling capabilities that other plastic recyclers frequently outsource complicated material streams to be processed in their Indiana facility. Having the right equipment in place to process these polymers is necessary.

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About WEIMA

More than 40,000 machines sold worldwide! WEIMA has been manufacturing robust shredders and briquetting presses for the disposal and processing of all types of waste for more than four decades. Our machines include single-shaft shredders, four-shaft shredders, cutting mills and briquette presses. The popular blood orange machines are used in the wood, plastics, paper, metal and waste-to-energy industries.

Made in Germany. Built for the world.

Shredders and briquette presses from WEIMA are exclusively made in Germany and come from production plants in Saxony-Anhalt and Baden-Wuerttemberg. Every year, more than 300 employees work on around 1,200 customer solutions from around the globe. We have long-standing sales and service locations in the USA, Poland, India and China. More than 80 representatives supplement this global presence.

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