Liebherr L 542 - Manual (Page 2)

2 L 524 - L 542
Situation
Böhme was founded as a haulage company in 1938 by Willy
Böhme in Rehau. In 1951 the company added trench and sewer
cleaning divisions. In 1954 the company extended its activities
to include waste disposal. Böhme GmbH Wertstofferfassung
was founded in 1985 by Rudolf Böhme and is primarily focused
on the collection and sorting of recyclable materials such as
green, brown, clear and mixed glass, aluminum and tin cans,
paper and plastic packaging waste and waste paper. The
company has a storage capacity of approx. 1,500 tonnes for
deliveries of paper. The company also has a storage capacity of
approx. 200 tonnes for plastics. At full capacity the workforce
works a 4-shift model on every day of the week. Today the
company is managed by Stefan Böhme, Rudolf Böhme’s son.
Task
Once all the recyclables have been collected on the large stor-
age sites, they are transported to a material preparation system
for sorting. They are transported on conveyor belts. To ensure
that the materials are evenly distributed on the belts they are
first fed into metering bunkers. After the initial automatic sort-
ing process in the system, the recyclables are sorted manually.
The next step is to press the fractions into homogeneous bales
for transporting in a bale press, after which they are pushed
into the bale storage facility where they are stored separately
by material type. After this they can be delivered to recycling
contractors.
The company has been using three Liebherr L 524 wheel loaders
for several years. These operate for around 2,500 hours per
year and are used to form the waste into heaps and then feed
it on to the conveyor belts. The Liebherr wheel loaders have
proved to be an invaluable tool both for forming the heaps near
the sorting system and in the actual material handling process.
Since the wheel loaders can be used for a wide range of jobs
in the company and the management team are delighted with
them, the company placed an order for another wheel loader in
spring 2013, but this time an L 542.