In full operation is the Stokkermill Solar100 industrial solar panel recycling plant at the Corigliano-Rossano recycling centre.
The GO recycling centre is a historical reality with deep territorial roots and offers a range of multi-purpose services ranging from vehicle recycling to the collection and treatment of ferrous and metal scrap, using facilities covering an area of 10000 square metres and technologically advanced equipment.
The centre is directed by the owner, Giuseppe Otranto, and his sons, who will ensure business continuity.
The photovoltaic panel recycling system is capable of processing 2000ton/year and will be able to serve an important territorial area.
The company has entrusted Stokkermill Recycling Machinery, a company with an important tradition in the design and construction of machinery and plants for the recycling industry and which in recent years has also specialised strongly in photovoltaic and solar panel disposal systems, for this strategic project, which began in 2022.
Stokkermill's approach to the recycling of solarpanels is, as usual, extremely practical and aimed at the maximum valorisation of the materials reducing the operational cost but with the objective of reaching high quality standards of the recoverable materials.
This has been achieved after specific studies and application of the technologies present in the Stokkermill range suitably redesigned and perfected for the purpose. In other words, the Stokkermill SOLAR is not a simple sequence of generic and pre-existing machines, but it is born from a meticulous study on the materials to be treated: solar and photovoltaic panels, polycrystalline and monocrystalline also with non-standard dimensions.
The Stokkermill Solar plant, for the recycling of the photovoltaic panels, is able to operate without having to carry out expensive and uneconomic manual workings of removal of the aluminium frame. This increases the productivity of operations with reduced manpower and minimal associated costs, while still allowing for a ‘ready-made’ aluminium proler to be sent to the steel industry.
Energy consumption is a key element which, however, is sometimes not sufficiently taken into account when studying material recycling processes when it is a fundamental element in calculating the energy balance and impact on the environment, i.e. from production to the end-of-life stages of a given product.Stokkermill has set itself an ambitious target to keep the energy cost to less than 1 kw/h per panel.
In economic terms, if we consider an average of national tariffs, this corresponds to a unit energy cost of €0.15 per panel. This result is made possible by the high efficiency of the machines and by the careful engineering of the system, which has been studied in detail to offer performance at extremely low energy costs. Also in terms of environmental impact, it has been considered a priority to minimise emissions to the atmosphere by reducing them to a single dust collection filter.
While the primary objective is to contain environmental impact, other elements related to the authorisation process have not been ignored.
