How to choose a frame removal machine
The questions that decide the specification, in the order they matter — and the ones that turn out to be expensive if answered late.
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Buying and specification guides
Deframing vs shredding
Two front-end strategies and what each one commits you to downstream. Most buyers sit between them.
Read more →Line capacity planning
How to turn a feedstock estimate into a line size, and why the rated through-put is not the number your plant will achieve.
Read more →What a recycling line costs
The cost drivers, in the order they move the number, rather than a figure that would only be right in one market.
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Reference
Module information for a quote
The eight things to send us so the first reply is a configuration rather than a question.
Open →PV recycling glossary
Deframing, delamination, encapsulant, cullet, WEEE, WEEELABEX and the rest — defined without the marketing.
Open →PV recycling FAQ
The questions we are asked most often, answered directly.
Open →Regulatory frameworks
EU, US and Chinese frameworks, and what each one asks of a dismantling line.
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Three principles behind all of it
- The feedstock decides the line, not the other way round. Almost every configuration error traces back to a specification written for a module mix the plant does not actually receive.
- The output specification is the most valuable unknown. What your downstream buyer will accept decides how many separation steps you need — and it is usually knowable before you buy anything.
- The expensive decisions are the layout ones. Transfer heights, extraction and output bays are cheap at design stage and costly later. Machines can be added; building geometry cannot.
- If a guide here does not answer your question, ask it directly — it usually ends up as the next one we write.
Have a question that is not covered?
Send it. If it is a common one it becomes a page here; either way you get an answer from the engineering side rather than a sales reply.
FAQ
Questions
Do I need an account or an email address to read these guides?
No. Everything in this section is on the page. We do not gate our technical content behind a download form, because a guide nobody reads does not help either of us.
Are these guides written for a particular market?
The engineering content is not market-specific, because the module and the process are the same everywhere. The compliance pages are market-specific, and they say so.
Where do the equipment figures come from?
From our own equipment briefs and drawings. Where a figure is a typical published range rather than a machine specification — such as the approximate material split of a conventional module — the page says so explicitly.
Send us the module mix and the through-put
Tell us what arrives at your gate and what has to leave. The engineering team replies with the station configuration, the scope boundary and the information still missing before drawings start.
- Modules — framed single-glass, double-glass, frameless, thin film, mixed
- Condition — intact, or a meaningful share damaged or bent
- Through-put — modules per hour or t/h, and your shift pattern
- Output — which fractions you sell or store, and to what specification
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