Recycling

The recycling industry is growing massively across the world and with this becomes more efficient ways to recycle products, to keep up the machines to do this becoming ever more complex and powerful. These machines have lots of moving parts and generate lots of power needed for the crushing, shredding and filtering of materials.

The running of the recycling plants is becoming much more competitive so it is essential that down time of the machines and processes are kept to an absolute minimum. The thought of a bolted joint coming loose or the need for regular maintenance to re-tighten loosened fasteners is unthinkable. The potential of a loose fastener getting mixed into the recycled material is also unthinkable for the end product as well as for the potential to damage the extremely expensive equipment.

The use of WL Series Wedge locking washers maintains the Pre-Load (Clamping Force) in the joint and stops the fastener from coming loose. This also protects the Fastener and avoids bolt breakage which can be caused from the loss of load in the joint.

Typical applications for this industry would be for bolted joints on the Crushing Knives and Shredding blades for recycling machinery.