Reference project: frame removal machine for a licensed environmental operator in Colombia

The buyer is not a new entrant. It is an established Colombian environmental services company that has worked in hazardous waste and waste electrical and electronic equipment since 1993, and holds regional authorisations for the storage and dismantling of that material. Its site already processed other waste categories, so the project was not "build a recycling plant" but "add a module step to a dismantling hall that already exists".

That framing decided almost everything about the specification. The machine had to fit an existing building, work alongside existing equipment, and produce output that could be stored and dispatched using the operator's existing arrangements.

For an operator already licensed to dismantle electrical equipment, deframing is the natural entry point into modules. It is the step that produces a clean aluminium stream the operator's existing metal handling can absorb, it removes the component most likely to damage the rest of the material, and it closes the gap between "we are permitted to take modules" and "we can actually process them".

It is also the step that is easiest to justify first: the aluminium is a well-understood commodity, so the case for the machine rests on a stream the operator already knows how to sell.

• Station choice. The automatic frame removal machine, with the junction box and glass stages left for a later phase — the operator's existing dismantling capability could absorb the partially processed material in the meantime.
• Transport. The 2.5 m × 2.23 m envelope allowed standard container loading to Colombia.
• Testing before dispatch. The machine was assembled and its hydraulic press setting commissioned in our works.
• Spares. The consumable set — chain and sprocket, positioning cylinders and positioning rubber — was identified at the quotation stage so the parts list was known from day one.
• Handover. Commissioning and operator training on the modules the operation actually receives.

Three things from this project apply to almost every operator-led enquiry we receive. First, the first purchase is usually the bottleneck station rather than a complete line. Second, when the buyer is already a permitted waste operator, the equipment has to fit an existing hall, an existing container arrangement and an existing safety regime — the layout conversation starts earlier and matters more. Third, stating the consumable list and the press-setting policy at quotation stage removes most of the after-sales questions that otherwise arrive in the first month.