Equipment Report

WENDT OFFERS STAINLESS SEPARATOR

A 120-inch-wide Stainless Steel Separator manufactured in the U.S. is now available from Wendt/SSE. The equipment is designed to recover metals that may currently be heading to the landfill in the post-shredder stream, including stainless steel, copper windings and insulated and bare copper wire.

Wendt/SSE reports that it has sold more than 70 separators worldwide to the scrap recycling industry. Sales in 2004 have included units shipped to a Metal Management Inc. facility in Memphis, Tenn.; to Conservit Inc. in Hagerstown, Md.; to Prospect Metal in York, Pa.; and to Don’s Scrap in Hemmingway, S.C.

Wendt says that its 2003 SSE customers have reported rapid returns, with one customer calculating a 60-day payback period. Wendt anticipates that the wider 120-inch Stainless Steel Separator "will provide even more cost effective productivity with very quick returns on investment and even greater TPH throughput."

Wendt Corp., Tonawanda, N.Y., is the exclusive North American distributor for the technology created by Separation Systems Engineering GmbH (SSE), based in Wedel, Germany. Product development of the technology will remain in Germany.

Wendt is designing and fabricating the SSE separators at its Tonawanda facility. The company says features common to its eddy current product line will now be incorporated into the SSE sorters, including adjustability of operating parameters to maximize recovery; one-piece belt replacement; "Scrap Duty" construction; and low maintenance requirements.

Hägglunds Drives, Columbus, Ohio, has launched a newly designed line of valves.

To match compact motors’ ability to withstand tough environments, the new valves are compact, robust, corrosion-resistant and completely sealed, Hägglunds Business Segment Manager Ingemar Borg says. "We really put some tough demands on the design specification from the start," he states.

The line includes crossover relief valves, counter-balance valves, two-speed valves, four-way proportional valves, freewheeling valves, free-circulation valves and constant tension valves. "We did not want too many valves and we wanted to be able to combine various valves to produce multi-functions," says Borg.

Hägglunds offers hydraulic drive systems for recycling, pulp and paper, off-highway, mining, marine and other heavy industries.

Mervis Industries Inc. of Danville, Ill., has purchased a Metso Lindemann EC 1034-10 Scrap Shear. The new shear will deliver 1,250 tons of cutting force to be employed in Mervis’ scrap metal recycling operations.

"We chose the Metso Lindemann shear because it was intelligently designed, well built and a superior value," says Phil Mervis, VP and COO of Mervis Industries. "After visiting several sites and seeing it perform, we quickly realized the Metso Lindemann EC shear will allow us to reduce our costs and increase our productivity dramatically."

Metso Lindemann designs and manufactures recycling equipment, including scrap shears. The new "EC" generation enables operators to process scrap more flexibly and profitably, company engineers say.

Advanced features include an optimized drive and control system that reduces cycle times by more than 15 percent. Effective compression forces are increased with no increase in driving capacity, and increased pressure forces assure capacity for compacting bulky shredder feedstock into logs.

The shear also offers simple wear part exchange, says Bill Tigner, vice president and general manager of Metso Lindemann North America. A wear monitoring system signals the need to change wear plates, and hydraulic blade tensioning guarantees correct blade setting, tension and automatic adjustment, Tigner says.

"Our new series of EC Scrap Shears offers flexibility, lower energy consumption, greater operating reliability and ease of maintenance that surpasses that of any other scrap shear available today," he remarks.

Metso Lindemann, with a U.S. office in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is a leading supplier of scrap shredders, shears and balers.