The Metal Recycling group of Metso Minerals has relocated to an operations and office facility on Eighth Street in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
The company, formerly known as Svedala Recycling, used to be housed in a different building in Cedar Rapids, one that also included the company’s aggregates and minerals crushing operations.
"Our Metal Recycling operation in North America has always shared resources with other divisions of the company," remarks Bill Tigner, vice president and general manager of Metso Minerals, Metal Recycling North America. "Now the entire support staff for Metal Recycling is 100 percent devoted to our customers alone. The result has been improved service in all facets of our business."
The Cedar Rapids office will sell and support the Metso line of shredders, plus the Hammermills, Lindemann and Oberlander product groups. According to Tigner, a major source of business growth has been the company’s shredder wear parts. The company supplies manganese steel parts from its two foundries in Brazil and South Africa.
The Metals Recycling group of Metso Minerals was created in the fall of 2001 after Finland’s Metso Corp. acquired Svedala Industri AB of Sweden. The names of former Svedala operating units were changed to reflect Metso’s ownership earlier this year.
KEITH HONORED AS BUSINESS OF THE YEARKeith Mfg. Co., Madras, Ore., has been named Business of the Year by the Madras-Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce.
The company and its founder, Keith Foster, who started the company more than 50 years ago, have been recognized with several honors in the past two years.
Foster was one of three nominees for the 2001 Oregon Entrepreneur of the Year award in the manufacturing category. Also in 2001, Foster was inducted into the Environmental Industry Associations’ Hall of Fame.
During the past 50 years, always with a goal of "building a better mousetrap," Foster has used his innovative spirit to create material handling equipment for customers throughout the world.
Beginning with a self-unloading agricultural trailer in the 1950s, Foster moved on to introduce the patented Keith Walking Floor
® unloader in the early 1970s. Today, Walking Floor-equipped semi-trailers and systems are used to convey material in the waste, recycling, wood products, agriculture and packaged ice industries.Foster holds more than 250 patents and his company has supplied more than 22,000 Walking Floor systems to customers around the globe.
Currently, the company employs approximately 150 workers at its manufacturing facility in Oregon, and has offices in Canada, Mexico, The Netherlands, Germany and the U.K.
Genesis Sells 380th ShearGenesis Equipment & Manufacturing Inc., Superior, Wis., has announced the sale of its 380th shear. The sale occurs less than 24 months after the company sold its 200th shear, according to company chairman and CEO Kevin Bakke.
"We knew that our activity level was solid, but given the turmoil we’ve seen in the economy, the country in general and the scrap industry in particular, we never expected sales to remain so brisk throughout the period," says Bakke. "However, that says a lot about our customers. It shows they believe that improving their own processes is the best way to cope with tough times."
Genesis’ Magnum ProSeries Mobile Shears, available for excavators from 30,000 to 250,000 pounds, have been cited by some of the biggest names in the scrap and demolition industries for their excellent cutting forces, fast cycle times and impressive durability even in harsh processing environments.
VAN DYK BALER OPENS TEXAS OFFICEVan Dyk Baler Corp., the distributor of Bollegraaf Recycling Equipment, has opened a Southwest Territory Sales office in Houston. Long-time Texas resident Mark Neitzey has been hired to head the new office.
Neitzey formerly worked for Kobelco Construction Machinery, covering various sales territories including Texas and the U.S. Southwest.
He is kicking off his new position with a 90-day, nine-city tour through the territory, calling on potential customers in Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma.
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