"Dream bales" for a perfect recycling material loop at PAUL HARTMANN AG

esterday, worthless waste was produced. Today PAUL HARTMANN AG produces marketable bales made of cardboard and polyethylene weighing 400 kilograms. The bales of used cardboard go to the cardboard supplier and thus reduce the costs for new packaging material. "A perfect recycling material loop", according to the person responsible at the manufacturer of medical devices. Key players in the success story: a horizontal baling press HSM HL 4812 and a vertical baling press HSM V-Press 860 S.

Company

PAUL HARTMANN AG is active across Europe as a spe- cialist in medical and hygienic products. The company has 11,000 employees and generates almost two billion euros in annual turnover.

Task

At the home site of PAUL HARTMANN AG in Heiden- heim, packages for end customers are assembled in the "Homecare" area and handed over to the dispatch department. This produces carton and polyethylene waste. This waste used to be thrown away. In the future, it is to be compressed and recycled.

Solution

PAUL HARTMANN AG chose a horizontal baling press HSM HL 4812 and a vertical baling press HSM V-Press 860 S. The horizontal press processes cardboard, the vertical one polyethylene.

Advantages

Both machines can also be fed with the pressing material of the other machine
Short service pathways
Good support and advice in the decision-making phase
Made in Germany

HSM V-Press 860 S:

Bales weighing 400 kilos on a small floor space
Special equipment sliding instead of side door
Conversion from wire to polyester tape strapping presents no problems

HSM HL 4812:

Special equipment tilting device and conveyor belt
Advice with significant savings: semi automatic instead of fully automatic
Manual wire strapping cost-effective and sufficient
High bale quality allows good marketing

PAUL HARTMANN AG

10,000 employees worldwide, annual sales of almost two billion Euros – the HARTMANN Group is a provider of medical and hygienic products throughout Europe. The focal points are wound treatment, incontinence care and infection protection. PAUL HARTMANN AG in Heidenheim is the heart of the group of companies. It goes back to a textile factory founded in 1818 and is therefore one of the oldest German industrial enterprises. The company‘s homecare logistics are centralized in Heidenheim – the dispatch of small quantities to customers in Germany.

A lot of packaging material is produced in Heidenheim when goods are picked for orders: 260 tons of card- board and 60 tons of PE per year. Initially, this waste material was disposed of loose in 40-cubic meter containers, brought to an intermediary dealer and compressed there. The marketing revenues were modest. For Michael Kormann, Head of Homecare Logistics and Kornelia Bischof, Waste Management Officer, it soon became clear that the organisation of this process, which is both wasteful in transport and only produced modest results, could be improved. The obvious idea: in the future, HARTMANN wanted to compress the waste themselves in order to achieve proper revenues.

"The purchase price is only one aspect; for us the service also has to be right during the operating phase and the systems have to operate cost-efficiently in the long term. We considered HSM to be best placed to fulfil this."

Michael Kormann, Homecare Logistics Manager, PAUL HARTMANN AG

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