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WASTE MINIMIZATION ASSESSMENT FOR A MANUFACTURER OF NEW AND REWORKED ROTOGRAVURE PRINTING CYLINDERS (EPA/600/S-95/005)
Citation:
Fleischman, M., C. Hansen, AND G. P. Looby. WASTE MINIMIZATION ASSESSMENT FOR A MANUFACTURER OF NEW AND REWORKED ROTOGRAVURE PRINTING CYLINDERS (EPA/600/S-95/005). U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., 1995.
Description:
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has funded a pilot project to assist small and medium-size manufacturers who want to minimize their generation of waste but who lack the expertise to do so. Waste Minimization Assessment Centers (WMACs) were established at selected universities and procedures were adapted from the EPA Waste Minimization Opportunity Assessment Manual (EPA/625/7-88/003, July 1988). That document has been superseded by the Facility Pollution Prevention Guide (EPA/600/R-92/088, May 1992). The WMAC team at the University of Louisville performed an assessment at a plant manufacturing cylinders for rotogravure printing. Rotogravure printing cylinders are produced from new stock and used cylinders that require reworking. Cylinders undergo cleaning, plating, lathing, polishing, and grinding. Then the surfaces of the cylinders are engraved, cleaned, polished, and chrome-plated. The assessment teams report, detailing findings and recommendations, indicated that significant cost savings could be achieved by melting and reusing copper scrap as anodes in the plating bath. This Research Brief was developed by the principal investigators and EPAs Risk Reduction Engineering Laboratory, Cincinnati, OH, to announce key findings of an ongoing research project that is fully documented in a separate report of the same title available from University City Science Center.