ERS Test Facility Atlanta

Engineered Recycling Systems operates a dedicated test facility in Atlanta built to show the real performance of ERS-engineered metal recovery systems on authentic customer scrap. It exists for one reason: so you can see exactly how your own material behaves on ERS equipment before you commit to a system.

Test before you invest

Whether the material is copper wire, aluminum cable, ASR fines, black mass or e-waste, you send a sample and we run it. The test-before-you-invest approach gives clarity, confidence and measurable results that no simulation or brochure can match.

It also settles arguments early. A recovery figure quoted from somebody else's material is a guess about yours, and on variable streams the gap between the two is where projects go wrong.

What a trial involves

Full-scale trials are run using ERS granulators, Turbo Mills, air tables and magnetic separators — the same equipment that would be installed in your plant. You supply the actual input material, and ERS processes it through the real configuration rather than a laboratory approximation.

The outcome is a complete performance profile: throughput data, purity levels, output samples and technical findings. You can attend in person or receive the full report remotely. Every test is grounded in real performance, not theoretical projection.

Why it de-risks the decision

Running real material through ERS equipment removes uncertainty, verifies recovery expectations, and confirms that the configuration suits your material mix and production goals. For a processor evaluating a new line or upgrading an existing one, that is the difference between a business case and a hope.

It is also where most system designs get refined. Real material routinely behaves differently from the way it was described on a phone call — moisture, oversize, coatings or contamination can change the flowsheet entirely, and it is far cheaper to discover that on a drum than on a commissioning date.

What we can test

Wire and cable through wire recycling equipment and large-scale chopping. Shredder residue through ASR and car fluff lines and midlings and tailings recovery. Motor and compressor scrap through meatball and armature processing, radiators through ACR chopping and HVAC recycling.

Reduction is covered by shredders and mills, hammer mills and pre-shredders, and separation by density tables and advanced material separation. Board material routes to PCB recycling.

A CCM^® filter is on site too

The facility is built around metals, and most of the testing done in Atlanta is metals work. But a CCM^® OCT filter is installed there as well, which means converting material can be run through it where a question is worth settling rather than estimating.

That is usually a dust question. How a particular paper, board or tissue dust loads the media, how it behaves in the airstream, what the fine fraction actually looks like. On a trim removal and dust collection system those are the answers that decide the filtration sizing.

What a trial will and will not settle

A trial tells you what your material does on the equipment: throughput, purity, output fractions, how the stream behaves at the point of separation. Those are measured rather than projected.

What it does not do is replace a plant survey. The building, the duct runs, the available headroom and where the material has to end up still decide a large part of any system, and none of that can be tested in Atlanta. A trial and a survey answer different questions, and most projects need both.

Sending material

Material is sent in whatever quantity represents the stream honestly. A drum of carefully selected sample is less useful than a sack of what actually comes off the line, because the awkward fraction is the one that decides the design.

Tell ERS what the material is, roughly how much of it you handle, how it arrives and what you need out of it. ERS will say what to ship, how much, and what the trial will measure, before anything is sent.

Spare parts next door

To support long-term reliability, ERS keeps a fully stocked spare parts warehouse adjacent to the test facility, holding blades, motors, filters and control units ready for immediate shipment. When a part is needed it is already in stock, which is what keeps downtime short and production uninterrupted. The detail sits under spare parts and service.

How to arrange a test

Send us a description of the material, the volume you process and what you need to recover from it. We will tell you what to ship and what the trial will measure. The wider range sits under metals processing and scrap metal recycling systems and the full equipment range.

Use the contact form to start. Installed systems that began as a test are written up under project news and system updates.