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2nd Edition, December 2016
ReVolv: Recycling by Votechnik of LCD Visual displays
The WEEE recycling industry is in urgent need of an efficient and low cost LCD recycling process to help them comply with the WEEE Directive. The Votechnik Trumaster-ALR fills the gap in this market; it is a fully automated, high through-put technology designed to meet the WEEE Directive recycling rates. The Trumaster-ALR will be able to process 80 LCDs per hour and separate the liquid crystal glass panel and the mercury from the LCD display.
Allied Automation to manufacture the Trumaster-ALRAllied Automation is a company based in Ireland that is building the upscale version of the Trumaster- ALR prototype. Allied Automation is dedicated to the development, design and Precision Engineering of custom automated equipment for many of the world’s leading Medical Device and Life Science companies. Founded in 1998, the company was built on a foundation of expertise in high Precision Engineering, and now partner with many of the world’s most progressive manufacturing companies. It is expected that the upscale version of the Trumaster-ALR will be ready for testing by January 2017. |
ReVolv: exhibitor and speaker at IERC 2017!ReVolv project will be an exhibitor at the 2017 International Electronics Recycling Congress. This event will take place in Salzburg, Austria on 17-20 January. Join the congress and meet us there! On Wednesday 18th January, Dr. Lisa O’Donoghue, will speak about the “Newly Developed Robotics Recycling of LCD Displays Emerging from the EC Funded ReVolv Pilot Action”.
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Votechnik Patent grantedThe US patent was successfully granted to Votechnik for its Trumaster-ALR technology for the automatic recycling of LCD displays on 8th April 2016. University of Limerick President Prof. Don Barry and Vice President Research Dr. Mary Shire awarded the inventors a framed certificate of the new patent.
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United Nations E-Waste Academy for Scientists (EWAS)The University of Limerick hosted the 2016 EWAS in August. The EWAS is a unique program that brings together select researchers from social and physical sciences to look at e-waste with a truly interdisciplinary lens. PhD students, post-docs and early career researchers from around the world came together in Limerick for an intensive programme that includes expert lectured, hands-on workshops, field visits, panel discussions and groupwork.
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DanWEEE Licence
DanWEEE’s new operation's licence including the Flat Screen separator was announced officially by the Danish EPA on 19 May 2016. The new licence is the starting pistol for DanWEEE to present the one of the most sophisticated WEEE processing plant in Scandinavia with the ReVolv project as a centre piece surrounded by other frontline technologies.
Congratulations DanWEEE! We are one step closer to meet the project objectives!
DanWEEE awarded Entrepreneur of the Year in Denmark
The Danish prize EY Entrepreneur of the Year for the category Cleantech went to DanWEEE Recycling A/S, who has proven the commercial potential in solving a community problem that in the future will only get bigger.
Events we participated in:
ReClaim project visit in Belgium on 3 June 2016
E-waste Academy hosted at the University of Limerick, 13-20 August 2016, Ireland
EPA 2016 Annual Horizon 2020 Societal Challenge 5 Information Day was held in Dublin, Ireland on 7 October 2016
World Recycling Convention held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on 24 October 2016
WEEE Forum General Assembly hosted in Dublin, Ireland on 25 November 2016.
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lisa.odonoghue@votechnik.com
