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Frieco is a innovative appliance able to reduce all kind of inorganic waste up to 95 % of its amount turning it into small flakes.
Thanks to its patented system of incision, Frieco can chop up plastic, aluminium, glass, paper and cardboard containers within a very short time, making it possible to save space and energy.
The reasons why Frieco Home is awesome:
The encumbrance takes up a minimum amount of space and allows an easy arrangement in any setting, for instance inside the kitchen furniture: height 610 cm, width 420 mm, depth 500 mm.
However, the waste basket capacity is of 30 L, that roughly corresponds to 300 plastic glasses, 250 aluminium cans, 200 plastic bottles of o,5 L each, 120 bottles of 1 L each, 70 plastic bottles of 1,5 L each, 250 glass bottles of o,33 L each.
Noise and vibration are strictly reduced thanks to the presence of soundproof panels and antivibrant pins, which, by the way, also guarantee stability.
Everyone can use Frieco Home, following only 4 steps: you need to open the shutter and insert the waste; once the shutter is closed, the machine powers itself up by pushing the start button.
In a very few seconds the material is reduced into small flakes that will be carried towards a practical internal bag, which you can access to through a slide valve.
Frieco Home can work with different kind of materials.
Frieco Home is already suitable for your own exigences.
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Crushing and compacting are the two volumetric reduction systems mainly used.
While compacting doesn’t allow a volumetric reduction higher than 80%, crushing, a technique vastly used in the field of organic waste, allows a volumetric reduction much more significant through the use of industrial equipments, even though it is quite expensive.
The crushing technique currently used is characterized by the presence of counterposed blades, but sets some problems:
- high realisation cost
- high crushing duration (about 1 minute)
- high strucking chances which resolution would require the engine to be turned the opposite way.
- high power requirement
The patented system FRIECO is studied to avoid all these problems: it exploits the centrifugal force to crush almost any kind of materials with a 1200 W engine, thanks to the precision with which the cutting blades have been arranged on a rotor; also, other mechanisms allow an “easy” crushing.
Using the shredder FRIECO it is possible to obtain a 95% actual reduction; as a matter of fact, it is impossible for the flakes to get outside the rotor before they reach the preset size (about 1 cm).
In order to last as long as possible in time, FRIECO has been realized using long lasting and stainless steel.
FRIECO was born with the idea of reducing waste volume in order to simplify its storage, transport and reuse; if you think about it, the volume of 136 plastic bottles that every person deplete in one year in Italy would be reduced to the equivalent of 7 bottles only.
Once we found out the problem, we decided to focus on the practical side of it: we wanted to make a product suitable for anyone and, for this reason, easy to use.
Here lays the source of our cutting system, very quick and efficient. In addition, it is thought to be scaled in order to be adjusted according to different needs.
We have been able to increase the drawer volume without changing its dimensions, thanks to the advantageous cutting room positioning.
Particular attention has been pointed at reducing vibration and noise; in this case, as well, we carried out many tests and, with the help we hope to get through this campaign, we will realize a further study with which we will be able to improve FRIECO’s performance.
Dear backers, let’s get it started with a famous quote by Albert Einstein on which basis Steve Jobs conceived his philosophy:
“Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
But we can’t do all this only on our own, we need your support and your help to make it real.
FRIECO’s projec is meaningful and worthy: it aims to turn waste into a resource!
The first and most important step has been set with the development of this machinery, that has the potentiality to drastically reduce waste volume from its very origin.
The whole amount of money we will be able to raise will be destined to carry out all the orders but, nonetheless, to complete the industrialization process of our project, as well.
Thx for your curiosity,
Frieco's team.
Risks and challenges
Saldometal’s 30 years expertise in mechanical manufacturing has been fundamental in the development of this product both on a technical level and on a monetary one: all this would not have been possible without our production workshop where we carry out our tests and we realize the components, in order to be well prepared to deal with broad based industrialization.
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