2022 MRF Operations Forum Presentations
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| Tuesday, October 18, 2022 | |
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| 8:30 AM – 8:45 AM | Opening Comments Nat Egosi and Jim Keefe set the stage for this year’s program. Speaker: Nat Egosi, President, RRT Design & Construction Speaker: James Keefe, Executive Vice President and Group Publisher, Recycling Today Media Group |
| 8:45 AM – 10:15 AM | Case Studies: New Approaches To MRF Processing Many MRF operators are evolving their plants, integrating new technologies and applying older technologies in new ways. It’s all designed to increase recovery and purity while adding flexibility to manage the “evolving ton”. This session presents a series of case studies of what’s being done. Moderator: Mark Henke, Manager, Recycling, Republic Services Speaker: Andrea Rodriguez, Director of Engineering, FCCEnvironmental Services Speaker: Eduardo Rodriguez, Operations Manager, City of Phoenix,Solid Waste Division Speaker: Jake Westerhof, Area Recycling Director, Canada East, GFL Environmental Speaker: Michael McCoy, Executive Director, Metro Waste Authority |
| 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM | Opticals: The Sorting Workhorse This panel explores the evolving reality that plant operators are finding optical sorters outperform other options. What does it mean to operate a plant with large numbers of optical units? What are the real-world results? Moderator: Jeffrey Nella, Regional Recycling Director, GFL Environmental Speaker: Jim Marcinko, Vice President of Recycling Operations, Waste Management Speaker: Thomas Ferretti, Operations Manager, Sims Municipal Recycling Speaker: Ronald Grinold, Area Manager Plant Operations, Republic Services |
| 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM | Data & System Intelligence From materials characterization to bale counting, what data is available? How is the data being used to improve operations and what are the real-world applications? Moderator: Nat Egosi, President, RRT Design & Construction Speaker: Matanya Horowitz, CEO, AMP Robotics Speaker: Thomas Brooks, Chief Technology Officer, Bulk Handling Systems Speaker: JD Ambati, Founder & CEO, EverestLabs.AI Speaker: David Marcouiller, Executive VP Sales Engineering, Machinex |
| 1:45 PM – 3:15 PM | Executive Session: Supplying The Market Hear senior executives from the major equipment vendors on how they are responding to increased manufacturing costs, reacting to supply chain issues from their OEMs, meeting delivery schedules, managing service and installations, watching new companies enter the market because they can’t fill the void fast enough, keeping up parts inventories and more. Moderator: Nat Egosi, President, RRT Design & Construction Speaker: Chris Hawn, CEO, Machinex Technologies Inc. Speaker: Pieter van Dijk, President, Van Dyk Recycling Solutions Speaker: Chris Ulum, Managing Director, National Recovery Technologies Speaker: DJ VanDeusen, President, Harris Speaker: Mat Everhart, CEO, Stadler America, LLC |
| 3:45 PM – 4:15 PM | Plastic Sorting Systems – A Process Overview PRFs are not MRFs. This session will share the processing cycle, identify key operational machinery and detail its role in meeting output material specifications. Moderator: Felix Hottenstein, Sales Director, MSS Optical Sorters Speaker: Mylinda Jacobsen, Global Purchasing Director, Encina Speaker: Greg Janson, President and CEO, Granite Peak Plastics |
| 4:15 PM – 5:30 PM | The Next Step: Value Adding Systems Making flake is different than making pellets. Going beyond either of those to make finished or semi-finished products requires advanced system engineering. This session will provide detailed insights into system requirements to achieve this. Moderator: Nat Egosi, President, RRT Design & Construction Moderator: Felix Hottenstein, Sales Director, MSS Optical Sorters Speaker: Hartmut Bendfeldt, President, eFACTOR3 LLC Speaker: Greg Janson, President and CEO, Granite Peak Plastics |