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GREENMAX Styrofoam Densifier M-C300 Helps UDP Provide A "Almost Perfect" Styrofoam Recycling Solution

UDP is a company in Southern California specializing in high-end outdoor rigid structure construction. After generations of effort and decades of development, the company has become one of the most important suppliers of outdoor steel structures in Southern California.

In UDP's steel structure products, Styrofoam foam is used for insulation filling due to its high efficiency in insulation and its rigid physical properties, making it an indispensable product in building fillers. Over the past few decades, UDP has consistently employed the Styrofoam cutting and gluing process to create sandwich panels. In daily operations, a large amount of cut Styrofoam waste and Styrofoam dust has been generated. Because Styrofoam waste is very light and filled with air, it has posed a significant challenge for the company’s waste management; no recyclers are willing to offer Styrofoam recycling solutions, and it often incurs high disposal fees to hire waste treatment companies for removal. Worse still, if this Styrofoam is not recycled, it will lead to significant subsequent environmental problems.

As early as five years ago, UDP contacted GREENMAX in hopes of finding a Styrofoam recycling solution that best met their requirements. The project was postponed for another two years due to the global COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Finally, after multiple face-to-face and online negotiations, benefiting from GREENMAX's rich global experience in Styrofoam recycling, we designed and manufactured a customized Styrofoam densifier for UDP.

A precise and efficient recycling solution was designed based on the actual conditions at UDP's site, which not only recycles Styrofoam scraps generated during the cutting process but also covers all operational platforms within UDP's factory to collect Styrofoam dust without any dead corners. A Styrofoam crushing system was set up at the waste storage point to ensure that Styrofoam waste generated in various production processes is recovered in a timely manner. All collected Styrofoam waste is transported through GREENMAX's custom stainless steel pipes to an outdoor SILO storage system, where the GREENMAX Styrofoam densifier M-C300 recycling system performs thermal melting treatment on the waste. GREENMAX's exclusive thermal melting technology ensures a compression ratio of 90:1.

As of now, this recycling system has been in operation for over half a year. Through this Styrofoam recycling system designed based on the actual operations of the UDP factory, we can perfectly solve the Styrofoam waste issue that has caused numerous troubles over the past years. The compressed Styrofoam waste is also repurchased by GREENMAX's parent company, INTCO Recycling. We have several factories located in Southeast Asia, and ultimately, it is transformed into highly artistic decorative products that enhance people's lives and make life better.


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