Corporate News

ZAITLAN BUYS DATA GRATER

I. Zaitlan & Sons, Biddleford, Maine, a large recycling company in the New England region, has purchased Data Grater, Woburn, Mass., a mobile shredding and confidential document destruction firm. With the buyout, Zaitlan now has a customer base of more than 7,000, and claims it will soon be the largest recycling, broker and processor of recovered fiber on the East Coast.

Through the acquisition, Zaitlan added three additional facilities in Woburn, in addition to its current 50-acre facility in Biddleford and five other operations in Maine. “The companies, now as one, will command much attention with the control of more than 150,000 tons of materials in the region,” says Ron Hannon of Zaitlan.

“Because of the volume, Zaitlan is able to pay smaller recycling customers a premium for their recycled materials,” he continues. “Many small recyclers are going out of business – we hope to keep them alive. These people are in the trenches, doing what most haulers won’t do until market changes are drastic.”

Zaitlan has every intention of growing further through future acquisitions, according to Hannon. “While some people are hopping off the recycling bandwagon, we’re building new plants,” he says.

DAVID J. JOSEPH CREATES NEW LEASING COMPANY

The David J. Joseph Co., Cincinnati, in conjunction with Star Banc Corp. which has 254 locations in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana, has formed a new company called DJJ Leasing LTD, which will purchase and lease newly built rail cars. DJJ and Star will each be equal partners in this $30 million venture. The new company’s initial order includes 560 open-top rail cars, or gondolas, to be leased to railroads and companies serving bulk commodity markets such as the coal, aggregate, steel and scrap industries.

“DJJ plans to grow its rail car fleet significantly in the future,” says Doug McMillan, president and chief operating officer of DJJ’s Railroad Equipment Leasing and Marketing Division. “We have seen a significant shift over the years in railroad ownership to private sector ownership of rail cars. This new company was formed in a direct response to customers’ needs and requests to provide transportation services and equipment, and to greatly complement our existing fleet.”

DJJ will receive the first order of rail cars at the end of 1996.

GALBREATH BUYS PIQUA WASTE EQUIPMENT

Galbreath Inc., Winamac, Ind., a maker of waste handling equipment, has purchased Piqua Waste Equipment Inc. Piqua manufactures vertical and horizontal balers and compactors. “The purchase of Piqua was a natural and logical step for Galbreath and enables us to offer our customers an even more complete line of waste handling and recycling equipment,” says James Herman, president of Galbreath.

VAN DYK RECEIVES LUBO DISTRIBUTORSHIP

Van Dyk Baler Corp., Stamford, Conn., has been awarded an exclusive distributorship in the U.S. and Canada for LUBO screening and recycling systems. A European market leader, LUBO’s equipment line consists of construction and demolition debris turnkey systems, compost screening systems, and screening equipment for the aggregate industry.

LINDEMANN NAMES COLTON AS DISTRIBUTOR

Lindemann Recycling Inc., Charlotte, N.C., has named Colton Equipment, Beaverton, Ore., as distributor for the company’s line of recycling equipment in Oregon (excluding the eastern counties), Washington, Alaska and British Columbia. Colton will market Lindemann’s line of balers, trommels, briquetters, eddy current separators, conveyors and complete recycling plants.

RECYCLERS TRAVEL THE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY

Following the wave of the future, a number of recycling industry firms have established sites on the Internet. Here are some of them:

Green Valley Disposal & Recycling, Los Gatos, Calif., (http://www.greenvalley.com ). Customers and others can access the company’s Curbside Recycling Guide, which will describe items that are recyclable and how to prepare them for pick up. The on-line service also features a “questions and answers” forum and pages from the company’s coloring book that can be printed out for children.

New York State Electric & Gas Corp., Binghampton, N.Y., (http://www.nyseg.com ). This utility began listing its surplus, obsolete and recycled materials on the Internet a year ago. Since then, it has been averaging about two new inquiries a day. In addition, about 20 percent of new bidders have come directly from the company’s Internet connection – some as far away as Guatemala and Turkey.

Resource Integration Systems Ltd., Toronto, (http://www.mginet.com/ris ). This site contains articles on cost-reduction initiatives and householder attitudes toward recycling as well as related legislative and policy developments.

Case Corp., Racine, Wis., (http://www.casecorp.com ). Key features of the Case site include access to the Case and Case IH used equipment remarketing program, as well as a way to locate the nearest dealers. In addition, users can obtain detailed information about all of Case’s products.

Free-Flow Packaging Corp., Redwood City, Calif., (http://www.free-flow.com ). Users of this site can find locations that collect the loosefill packing peanuts made of expanded polystyrene for recycling. In 1995, the firm recycled 8 million pounds of EPS packaging.