Equipment Report

IPS Installs Two-Ram Balers

IPS Balers Inc., Baxley, Ga., has sold and installed several high-production two-ram balers in recent months.

In the Northeast market, an IPS TR-1388-200 with a pre-compression ram has been installed at All-American Recycling in Jersey City, N.J., and an identical model was installed at Joseph Damato Paperstock Corp. in Paterson, N.J.

IPS president Sidney Wildes says the model purchased by the two companies is ideal for making dense bales suitable for making export weights, and is also a fast, high output machine. "They’re very fast machines and they run without an operator, so their cost per ton is significantly low," says Wildes.

And in St. Charles, Ill., a TR-1388-200 is now operating at the Smurfit-Stone facility there. According to Wildes, the baler, powered by two 100-horsepower motors, is configured with a management reporting system that tracks production and can provide reports on the number of bales, bale weights and the amount of electricity consumed in a given time period. "We call it the Smart Report system," says Wildes, who notes that IPS worked with Allen-Bradley to design the system.

American Baler Installs BIMAX Balers

Papeles Allende s.L. (PASL) has placed an order for two large capacity Bimax horizontal balers from American Baler Co., Bellevue, Ohio. The Spanish recyclers recently evaluated product performance at Van den Born Papier Recycling in Delft, Holland, where a Bimax baler has been operating since October 2000. PASL operates five recycling facilities in Spain and in Portugal, with the 355,000-square foot facility in Barcelona being the largest in Spain.

Shredder Revs Up New Motor

The new Alstom 4,000 hp slip-ring motor runs at 500 rpm and powers an 80/104 shredder made by Texas Shredder Inc. (TSI), San Antonio. The new motor replaces a 4,000 hp, 600 rpm DC motor. According to Tenenbaum management and TSI personnel, the new motor has substantially improved production, with throughput increasing up to 30 tons per hour because of the slower operational speed and higher torque.

TSI has been the exclusive import and marketing agent for the special shredder-duty drive motors from Alstom since 1996, and now has twenty of the motors operating in North America.

Al-jon Inc.

Municipal Recyclers Ltd., Mount Peril, Newfoundland, Canada, has purchased an Impact V Car Crusher from Al-jon, Ottumwa, Iowa. "We researched mobile car crushers throughout the industry and found that Al-jon’s crusher would provide the best option for crushing cars in addition to white goods and other scrap metal," says Craig Sheppard, Municipal Recyclers Ltd. representative.

He says the most effective method to use a crusher is to sandwich the white goods and other metals between crushed car bodies, which allows unusual sizes of materials to be put into bales. This then saves the company transportation costs, he says.

Northshore Manufacturing Inc.

A newly configured material handling system from Northshore Manufacturing has been designed to enhance baler performance for nonferrous scrap operations, the company says. The Builtrite Model 40S features a 20-foot boom arm which provides access to areas adjacent to the baler, helping to minimize movement in the processing area. Systems can be designed with a maximum vertical height as little as 18.5 feet.

"Operations that are already using the 40S report significant upturns in productivity and efficiency," says John Anderson, president, Northshore Manufacturing, Two Harbors, Minn. "Because material is fed without interruption, rates rise."

Sandvik Enters U.S. Crushing Scene

Concrete and asphalt recyclers will have a new name in crushing equipment to learn about. The Sandvik Group, a Swedish industrial conglomerate, has acquired some of the crushing equipment lines of the former Svedala Industri AB from Metso Corp., the Finnish company that bought Svedala.

Sandvik Rock Processing will be a new sector within the company’s Mining and Construction division. The Svedala crushing line purchased will include models such as the Hydrocone, the Eurocone, the Jawmaster and the Impactmaster. Several of the models are used by recyclers of concrete and asphalt.

The overall line of equipment offered by Sandvik will include crushers, screens and feeders, including mobile crushers and screening stations. The new Sandvik Rock Processing division currently has its North American offices in Appleton, Wisc. Nils Evert Karlsson is global president of the division, which is based in Sweden.