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MRF & Recycling Plant Operations Forum to take place in Chicago

Recycling Today publisher, Recycling Today Media Group, Valley View, Ohio, has introduced the MRF & Recycling Plant Operations Forum, which is scheduled for Oct. 17-18, 2016.

The MRF & Recycling Plant Operations Forum will be at the Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile in Chicago immediately preceding the 17th annual Paper & Plastics Recycling Conference, scheduled for Oct. 19-21.

The forum, designed and produced in cooperation with RRT Design & Construction, Melville, New York, is tailored to operators of packing plants and of dual-stream, single-stream, municipal solid waste (MSW), construction and demolition (C&D) recycling plants and of plastics recovery facilites (PRFs). The program has been designed to provide critical insights on plant operations—from equipment operations and maintenance to workforce optimization, according to the event organizers.

“Plant operations is a huge cost center,” says James R. Keefe, group publisher of the Recycling Today Media Group. “It’s estimated that the industry in the U.S. alone incurs some $2 billion in annual operating and maintenance costs. In today’s environment, understanding how to manage these expenses while optimizing operations for quality and throughput is essential.”

Keefe continues, “As the machinery and technology in recycling plants become more complex and integrated, as well as more capital intensive, it’s essential that operators optimize these investments.”

The event is for plant, regional and maintenance managers; owners; consultants; engineers; government officials; equipment suppliers; and other professionals interested in better understanding plant operations and technology.

Nat Egosi, president of RRT Design & Construction, says, “The need for a forum for those operating and maintaining recycling plants to learn best practices from one another is long overdue. Running these facilities is not easy, and the changing technology and material flows today is adding to that complexity.”

More information on the MRF & Recycling Plant Operations Forum is available through www.RecyclingTodayEvents.com.