Major installations and breakthroughs advance what’s possible in material processing
State of the Art Single Stream Facilities
Van Dyk is completing five turnkey state-of-the-art recycling facilities constructed for WM. Each plant features some of Van Dyk’s latest technologies with unique designs, including two catering to Canada’s EPR legislation, two serving major metropolitan markets in Texas, and one with a unique strategy of sorting film using intelligent sensor-based sorting.
First of Its Kind C&D System
Mazza Recycling Services has added a new C&D system to their Tinton Falls, NJ operation. The system was supplied and installed by Van Dyk and features Tomra optical sorting equipped with GAINnext artificial intelligence recognition, making it the first of its kind. The company will use the machine’s versatility to sort various grades of wood, switching between positive and negative sorting based on the composition of the day’s material.
Breakthroughs in Plastics Processing
Van Dyk’s partners at Bollegraaf are making major strides in plastics processing and recycling. Bollegraaf’s new PET processing plant for AGIR AG in Switzerland separates PET beverage bottles from non-food bottles, then sorts them by color. The plant processes up to 70tpd at 99% purity, using state-of-the-art sorting technology and a high level of automation.
Britain’s First Closed-Loop PET Facility
Bollegraaf’s new facility for Veolia in Shropshire will shred, wash, and flake 80,000 tons of PET plastic from trays and bottles every year, which will then be reused for food-grade packaging. By combining the world-leading expertise of Bollegraaf and Veolia, the UK will soon have its first closed-loop PET facility. The facility is expected to be operational by early 2026.
Boosting Throughput for Future Automation
APEX Waste Solutions of Steamboat Springs, CO upgraded a Lubo semi-mobile system and made several large modifications to improve the efficiency and performance of their manual sorting process. Now, APEX is scalping OCC at a tremendously high rate from inbound single stream tonnage and is set up for future automation improvements. This change is a foundational improvement for APEX as they see more tonnage increases every year in mountain ranges surrounding Steamboat Springs.
Capturing Clean Film from Single Stream
WM is using an air system and optical sorting in their new state-of-the-art single stream recycling facility in Fort Worth, TX to produce a clean film product. Film is channeled to one location where it is double sorted by a pair of optical sorters. The optical sorters are equipped with disc spreaders and Bollegraaf’s Aerobooster to properly singulate and stabilize material for optimal sorting performance. Nearly all film from the stream is being captured via this route, and the results are consistently pure.
Bollegraaf Balers
Bollegraaf balers continue to be the baler of choice at high-volume recycling facilities. Van Dyk is proud to supply HBC models to WM’s new state of the art facilities, along with other customers in need of high-speed baling solutions.
Refurbished Balers
Not in the market for new? Ask about our rebuilt balers. Each refurbished baler goes through rigorous inspection and is carefully rebuilt with OEM parts until it is like-new, like the one pictured above. This HBC140 model was just installed in a single stream retrofit where it will bale all of the system’s fiber and OCC.
Shredding Large Fiber for Faster Baling
This customer is shredding large rolls of high-grade paper and large Amazon OCC boxes before baling at their Georgia location. Portability allows them to roll the shredder in and out of place without affecting their normal operations. They drop material onto the shredder table, and the shredder’s output lands directly onto their baler feed conveyor. This operation eliminates guillotining and feathering in material, which speeds up their baling capabilities substantially. Shredding also gives them denser bales.
Recycling Equipment Innovator of the Year
Van Dyk is honored to be named the 2025 Recycling Equipment Innovator of the Year by the NWRA. This prestigious award highlights Van Dyk’s partnership with Greyparrot to revolutionize the way MRFs capture and analyze performance data using AI.
Try GreyparrotAI in Van Dyk’s Test Center
In 2025, Van Dyk installed Greyparrot units in their material test center to automatically validate testing results run on optical sorters. Van Dyk’s customers can also demo Greyparrot’s AI-powered dashboard and perform audits on their own material samples.
Test Center Upgrades
Van Dyk’s Test Center is set for additional upgrades in Q2 of 2026. The Lubo Optisort pictured will be outfitted with a disc spreader for singulation and Aerobooster for material stabilization, which will work with Tomra’s NIR sortation and GAINnext recognition for testing new applications with AI (such as food vs non-food trials).
Glass Cleanup Solutions
This glass cleanup retrofit includes a vibrating fines screen and zigzag separator to make two sellable glass fractions. Murphy Road Recycling LLC recycles 36,000 tons of glass per year, and 100% of the glass produced is sold in-state for glass-to-glass recycling or as a key ingredient for manufactured concrete.
The Original Günther Screen
Since its debut in 2004 by Anlagenbau Günther GmbH, the SPLITTER spiral shaft screen has redefined front-end sizing in MRFs. With 200+ installations globally, it has shown proficiency across waste streams such as single stream, MSW, commercial waste, organic waste, and more. Its non-wrapping, self-cleaning design makes it the lowest maintenance screen on the market. Thirty-three possible configurations with 6 axle distances and 11 auger sizes gives it the ultimate flexibility for sizing material. Pictured is the unit at Waste Connections (Groot) Plainfield, where it helps the facility process nearly 40tph with only 4 sorters.
Paper Drying for MSW Systems
The ReSource Center is operating a rolling bed dryer to dry their fiber product at their MSW system. The unit does 5-8 tph and transforms wet paper from the high-moisture content material stream into sellable mixed paper.
Odor Control Systems
To reduce odor emissions at this transfer station and MSW system, Van Dyk is installing 9 odor control units by the manufacturer Centriair. These units separate harmful particles and neutralize process gases to remove odors and improve air quality.
Compost Cleanup
This densimetric table setup will be refining compost at two locations in California. The D-Table targets and removes contamination such as glass, stones, and metals, but also hard plastics and plastic stickers.
Unmatched Service to Support Every Project
Van Dyk employs over 50 extensively trained field service technicians to support the breadth of solutions provided. This service team uses their expert knowledge and experience to take every Van Dyk installation from start to finish.