Equipment Report

Marathon Muscles Into Retail Spaces

Marathon Equipment Co., Vernon, Ala., has reached an agreement with a major retail chain for placement of its StockRoom baler at multiple locations.

The vertical baler will allow the stores to bale the old corrugated cardboard (OCC) they generate into 200 to 400 pound bales.

The StockRoom vertical baler has been designed to be small enough to fit through a standard door, and is built on casters to be easy to install and move.

Marathon has also developed a handcart to go with the balers that will enable employees to move the bales out of the store to a designated pick-up area. The cart can be positioned in front of the baler so bales are ejected directly onto it. The cart also has a dumping mechanism that allows the bale to be easily moved from the cart.

SAC Recycling Trucks Adds Dealer

Metropolitan Waste Equipment Inc., Stoughton, Mass., has been added as a dealer of SAC Recycling Trucks.

“We have a very strong base of customers in the northeastern U.S., and have been searching for a company that could offer local sales and service support to our existing customers,” says Jim Lyons, national sales manager for SAC Recycling Trucks, which is based in South Windsor, Conn.

SAC makes aluminum truck bodies and trailers used to collect reyclables in a variety of sizes and compartment configurations. The trucks can be used to collect both separated recyclables and in single-stream applications.

The company’s patented right-hand drive conversion cab process features a sliding door, and can be installed on most major makes of truck cabs.

Japanese Firm Buys into The Shredder Co.

A fifty percent interest in The Shredder Co., the El Paso, Texas-based wear parts company started by Scott Newell and Alton Scott Newell IIII, has been purchased by Tokyo-based Inabata & Company Ltd.

Inabata’s Shigeki Masui has joined The Shredder Co. as chairman of the board. “We are very proud of our association with Shigeki Masui and we are confident that his many friends around the world in this business will be pleased,” says Scott Newell.

Sierra Sells Shear, Logger

Sierra International Machinery, Bakersfield, Calif., has installed the first of its new 1,100-ton Shear / Baler Loggers at Eisenmetall Rohstoff in Dusseldorf, Germany. This new shear has a patent-pending design. “We are very excited about breaking into this market with a shear of this class,” says company president John Sacco.

“To sell the first one in Germany is even a greater thrill,” he adds. “Like processors in the United States, the Germans are very particular about the quality of the product and the service. To have been selected by Eisenmetall means that Sierra has met the expectations of a very demanding customer.”

Sierra has also announced the sale of its new RB 6000 car logger, delivered to E& H Car Crushing, Orlando, Fla. The new logger has a 20 feet long charging box and a more powerful crane. “The RB 6000 is the largest in our portable fleet and produces the highest volume of tonnage per hour,” says Sacco, who adds that the model gives Sierra a complete line of machines for logging.

Columbus Mckinnon Shredder Installed

Tire recycler Lakin Tire West, Santa Fe Springs, Calif., has added another tire shredding system made by Columbus McKinnon Corp. (CM), Sarasota, Fla., to its array of processing equipment. The shredder is the fourth CM unit purchased by Lakin Tire.

Lakin Tire West processes more than 10 million tires annually, selling some tires whole into the re-treading market, but processing the majority for tire-derived fuel and civil engineering applications.

“The Columbus McKinnon tire shredder was chosen because of its reliability and for its ability to process tires that are cleanly cut with very little exposed wire,” says Rick Colyar, national sales manager for CM.

Columbus McKinnon is a leading manufacturer of equipment designed specifically for the size reduction of scrap tires, and has systems operating in more than a dozen countries.

Innov-X Debuts at ISRI

A high performance hand-held alloy sorter is being displayed at the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries Inc. (ISRI) Annual Convention in Las Vegas by Innov-X Systems Inc., Woburn, Mass.

The battery-powered sorters are equipped with a miniature X-ray tube, instead of isotopes, to eliminate certain resourcing costs and licensing and regulatory requirements.

The non-destructive X-ray analysis performed by the Innov-X device makes it ideal for stainless and high temperature alloy analysis. Operational modes include one for high-precision chemistry analysis with grade identification, or a rapid alloy sorting pass/fail mode.

“Our unique design can also be docked into a bench-top station with an enlarged touch screen display and AC power input,” says Innov-X vice president of sales Ken Smith.

The analyzer will be on display at Booth 728 of the ISRI Annual Convention, which takes place March 11-14 at the Bellagio in Las Vegas.

Harris To Roll Out “E” Series

Harris Press & Shear, a Division of the Harris Waste Management Group Inc., Peachtree City, Ga., will introduce its “E” Series line of ferrous processing equipment at the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries Inc. (ISRI) Annual Convention in Las Vegas.

Harris is referring to the “E” Series as “the first dedicated line of processing equipment designed specifically to meet the stringent package requirements of Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) operators and consumers.”

Among the equipment models making up the “E” Series are:

•The all new Harris GS line of baler/logger/shears with 500-ton (GS-5-E),

700-ton (GS-7-E), 900-ton (GS-9-E) and 1,100-ton (GS-11-E) shearing

capacities

•The TG-2-E and TG-4-E line of ferrous balers

•The H-7-E 700-ton side-squeeze baler/logger/shear; and

•The Harris HS line of shredders also will carry the “E” designation.

“We believe it is necessary to continually redefine our product and service offerings in the scrap industry and to proactively address changes in our customer’s businesses,” says Scott Williams, vice president of sales and marketing for Harris. The new equipment utilizes the latest advancements in Harris power and hydraulic technology and was designed using the latest in Solid Edge 3D computer aided software, says Williams.

 “The “E” Series machinery specifications were designed from a material consumer’s, or mill point of view,” remarks Williams. “The feedback we received from EAF mill operators, our customers, and even a large Electric Arc Furnace manufacturer led us to design and build around desired material package specifications from the mill.”