Equipment Report

SCANREC NEW NAME ON RECYCLING FRONT

The company formerly known as Presona Inc., Waco, Texas, is now known as Scranrec Inc., and is the North American subsidiary of the Swedish Scanrec AB Group. In North America, Scanrec Inc. represents the following companies:

•Scandinavian Recycling AB, makers and designers of systems to process wire, cable, electronic scrap and plastic waste.

•Presona AB, makers of single-ram horizontal balers.

•Franz Arnold’s Sohne, manufacturer of briquetting presses, scrap shears and scrap metal balers.

•Morinders AB, manufacturer of the Brickman line of small high-pressure balers and den-sifiers for paper, plastics and aluminum.

•Eleiko AB, makers and designers of recycling systems for multi-story buildings as well as sorting systems for bottles and cans.

Scanrec Inc. president Mike Lock-man believes the new entity will be able to forge a reputation as a recycling industry problem-solver through its “unique combination of equipment and expertise, brought together to provide recycling solutions.”

Equipment made by the five Scanrec companies is currently available in the U.S. through a network of more than 30 distributors. According to Lockman, Scandinavian Recycling currently has about 20 wire chopping systems  in place in the U.S. while Presona has sold some 50 balers into the North American

market and Arnold briquetters also have a foothold in the U.S. market. He believes there is room for growth in the North American market for each of the five equipment lines.

GEITH OPENS WESTERN OFFICE

Geith Inc., Petersburg, Va., has opened a Western Division office in Tacoma, Wash. Doug Doyle, a 30-year veteran of the construction equipment industry, will serve as general manager of the office.

Geith’s Western Division office will serve a region stretching from eastern Montana and eastern New Mexico to the Pacific coast, including Alaska, Hawaii and Canada’s western provinces. “I joined Geith Inc.following several requests from customers expressing a need for quality products with timely deliveries. I feel confident that we’ll equal, if not surpass, our east coast volume in the coming years in the Western Division,” says Doyle.

Among the attachments made by Geith in Europe and North America are grapples, concrete pulverizers, buckets and mechanical thumbs. “Geith has grown at an astonishing rate over the past few years,” says Geith Inc.’s U.S. operations president Brendan English. “With the opening of the new facility in Tacoma, we aim to make 1999 even more successful.”

KOMATSU STARTS ATTACHMENT GROUP

Komatsu America International Co., Vernon Hills, Ill., is forming a business unit to develop and expand an attachment product line for its earth-moving equipment. Komatsu’s “Working Gear” group will attempt to provide “one-stop shopping” offering attachments for scrap handling, demolition, forestry and construction applications.

“This product line was created in partnership with several leading global attachment manufacturers to select quality components that will help our customers expand their services across various applications,” says Mike Murphy, manager of Komatsu’s Working Gear group.

Packages offered by the Komatsu Working Gear group will include installation, full warranty and delivery within 30 days. The attachments can be installed on machines ordered from Ko-matsu, thus saving an additional shipping charge. Komatsu attachments will be on display at the CON- EXPO-CON/AGG equipment show in Las Vegas.

NEW HOLLAND ACQUIRES GERMAN MANUFACTURER

New Holland N.V. has announced an agreement to acquire Orenstein & Koppel Aktiengesellschaft (O&K), a German maker of hydraulic excavators and construction equipment. New Holland Construction, a division based in Carol Stream, Ill., will introduce a full line of O&K hydraulic excavators in North America in 1999.

New Holland Construction has also announced that John P. Treuman, former executive vice president at Kobelco America Inc., has been named director of sales at the newly formed division. “I was drawn to this exciting new organization because of the unparalleled opportunity here,” says Treuman. “The product introduction plan we have in place for the next 12 to 18 months will make New Holland Construction one of the leading full-line suppliers of construction equipment in North America.”

CORECO

A scrap drier made by CORECO, Germantown, Wisc., has been installed at Metals Recycling Systems of Riverdale, Ill. The CORECO Model 2360 Rotary Aluminum Scrap Drier can process up to ten tons of aluminum scrap per hour. According to CORECO, the drier removes moisture and dirt from scrap, helping to assure a safer, cleaner, more energy-efficient melt.