Equipment Report

Strip Technology Inc. (Strip-Tec), Fort Worth, Texas, has recently ordered its second container load of alligator shears manufactured by J. McIntyre Machinery Ltd., Dunkirk, U.K.

Strip-Tec was appointed sole agent for the McIntyre shear range six months ago.

Bobby Alexander, Strip-Tec president, says his company is carrying J. McIntyre shears in stock at the company’s facility in Fort Worth while also holding a spare parts inventory to offer "excellent back-up support for the McIntyre shear range."

Sally Johnson, J. McIntyre’s managing director, has advised North American buyers to purchase new J. McIntyre shears only from Strip-Tec.

"J. McIntyre Machinery is keen to stress that Strip-Tec is now the only company authorized to sell new McIntyre equipment following the demise of our former agent McIntyre America in 2001," says Johnson, referring to a former Ohio-based distributor.

Johnson has asked recyclers who learn of any North American companies offering new McIntyre shears other than Strip-Tec "or its appointed representatives" to contact Strip-Tec in the U.S. at (800) 426-4126 or J. McIntyre Machinery Ltd. in the U.K. at +44 115-900-3650. "These machines may not have been authorized for sale by the manufacturer, and as such may be being sold illegally and without the latest operating instructions, warning labels and operator guarding," she says.

Johnson also says any McIntyre customers who purchased their machines from the prior distributor "are encouraged to register their equipment with Strip-Tec in order to receive information on latest equipment updates and allow McIntyre and Strip-Tec to offer full support and competitive pricing on genuine McIntyre spare parts."

Carolinas Recycling Group (CRG), Lyman, S.C., has purchased a Wendt/SSE Stainless Steel & Metal Sorting system with a 72-inch wide SSE Separator.

The equipment is designed to recover metals from the auto shredder stream that may otherwise head to the landfill, including stainless steel, copper windings and insulated and bare copper wire. The SSE system is designed to pick up metal that manages to elude traditional eddy current separators.

"CRG will now be able to produce a new revenue stream with very little cost investment," says CRG Vice President Ted Davis. "We expect a very quick payback. Opportunities like this are rare."

Davis also notes that the company was initially skeptical that its existing systems were missing very much metal from the stream, but that Wendt Corp. ran material generated by CRG through its own production facility and demonstrated the results. "Running our own materials provided CRG with real data that we could base our decision on," notes Davis. "It eliminated all the guesswork."

The CRG installation marks the third SSE Stainless Steel Separator Wendt has sold in the U.S. Companies representing SSE (German-based Separation Systems Engineering GmbH) have sold 57 separators to scrap processors worldwide as well as additional units to a variety of other industries.

According to Wendt Corp., Tonawanda, N.Y., the company will help schedule a tour of the new system for interested customers.