Towards Sustainable Future

Recycling and waste recovery have an important role for long run sustainability. TM Systems^® helps industries stop landfilling and turn the waste into source of energy or commodity with business value. Reusing waste helps us conserve the natural resources, protect natural ecosystems, and encourage biological diversity, all of which enhance the long run sustainability of the biosphere.

Paper recycling

Recycled paper is an important raw material in the paper industry as a substitute for virgin pulp. Today, almost a half of the fiber material in paper and board production comes from recovered paper. The reasons for the vast utilization of recycled paper as a raw material for board and paper production are mainly fiscal for regions like Central-, Southern-, or Western Europe. In areas like China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, or Mexico an additional reason is the shortage of native pulpwood resources. Another aspect in the utilization of recycled paper is the legislation and guidelines set by authorities that demand a certain percentage of recycled fiber content for specific paper grades.

Paper and board mills are often located in industrialized areas bordering cities and there is an ever-increasing pressure on industry to minimize the amount of air pollution released into the atmosphere. TM Systems^® has developed technology that supports sustainable recycling of used paper and board from settlement areas with high paper and board consumption back to the paper and board mills. SuperDryer™ is a breakthrough pulp and fiber drying system that makes the drying process clean, energy-efficient and CO₂ negative. It is scalable to many production sizes, from large pulp mills to small local recycling units. With 100% energy recovery, and 100% air cleaning, we have a clear solution on how to improve the recycled fiber process. Read more: SuperDryer^™ – clean, energy-efficient and CO2 negative drying of pulp and fibers

Textile recycling

The collection of used textiles for recycling must be organized in EU by 2025 at the latest. The landfilling of textile waste in Finland was stopped in early 2016. Recycled textile fibers can be reused in yarn, fabric, insulation, acoustic boards, composites etc. Functional clothes and textiles can be recycled at flea markets, and unusable ones are taken to a waste collection or disposed of as energy or mixed waste. The recycling of textiles is part of a larger whole, where new cellulose-based fibers are also recycled back into fibers and new clothes.

TM Systems^® has developed technology that supports sustainable textile recycling. SuperDryer™ is a breakthrough scalable fiber drying system that makes the drying process clean, energy-efficient and CO₂ negative. With 100% energy recovery, and 100% air cleaning, we have a clear solution on how to improve the recycled fiber process. Read more: SuperDryer™ – clean, energy-efficient and CO2 negative drying of textile fibers

Sludge recycling

Sidestreams and by-products, such as sludge from industries, by-products from biogas and recycled fiber plants, sludge from distilleries and breweries as well as municipal waste from water treatment – they are sustainability challenges when landfilled. The problem intensifies now as many countries ban landfilling of sludges and sidestreams. In EU this will take place by 2030.

Sidestreams and by-products can be recovered and turned into new commodity with business value. They can be dried and used as, among other things, bedding, fertilizer, raw material for recycled fibers or as a substitute for fossil fuels.

TM Systems^® has developed technology that supports sustainable sludge and sidestream recycling. SuperDryer™ is a breakthrough scalable fiber drying system that makes the drying process clean, energy-efficient and CO₂ negative. With 100% energy recovery, and 100% air cleaning, we have a clear solution on how to improve the recycled sludge and sidestream process. Read more: SuperDryer™ – clean, energy-efficient and CO2 negative drying for sidestreams and sludges