Welcome to Pearson Separation

Pearson Separation, home of the Astro, the Comet and the Meteor

If you need a secondary screen to handle wet or damp fines between 50mm and 10mm or below, Pearson Separation can offer you an adjustable star screening system to help your process flow without interruption.

Maximise your profits by Minimising Landfill Charges. When conventional mesh or wire screens block up, the Pearson Star system just keeps going.

The ‘active’ motion of the star wheels handles most types of wet materials and is self-cleaning, giving the operator reliable and effective screening without stoppages and is particularly effective in

• Compost
• Skip Waste
• Top Soil
• Road Sweepings
• Secondary Aggregates
• Wood Chippings


Pearson Separation are specialists in the manufacture of precision star screening equipment for the recycling, waste management and composting industries.

Star separation was pioneered by the Pearson family firm for agricultural use in the early 1990s and over 1000 units have been sold to farmers worldwide. Pearson Separation have now evolved the principles of star screening machines and have developed a unique design specifically for the recycling industries.

Based in east Lincolnshire in the UK, Pearson Separation offer full design, manufacture and after sales service on a range of standard machines including free standing or self-contained units, trommel conversions or bespoke machines to suit individual requirements.