TRIM WASTE RECYCLING — REPURPOSED DOLLARS

Major Machinery

With increasing business and a paper recycling system that was beginning to show its age, Quad/Graphics decided to embark on an installation of mammoth proportions. North America’s largest privately held commercial printer tapped G.F. Puhl to design and install what is believed to be the largest trim paper collection system in the country, with seven 45-foot-tall cyclones housed in their own 15,000-square-foot facility. Each cyclone is rated at 50,000 cubic feet of air per minute which, according to an executive at G.F. Puhl, is enough to fill one hot air balloon in less than two minutes. The installation included four new high-capacity, auto-tie balers and, all told, the trim collection system encompasses more than two miles of piping.