Equipment Report

OmniSource Inc., Fort Wayne, Ind., has purchased a 96-inch-wide Stainless Steel Separator from Wendt Corp. for one of its Toledo, Ohio, locations.

The equipment, which will be installed in August, is designed to recover metals currently heading to the landfill, including stainless steel, copper windings and insulated and bare copper wire.

The separator, purchased with the Multi-Track option, permits primary separation on one side of the separator and on-line upgrading of the recovered metals on the unit’s other side.

OmniSource will be the first in the U.S. marketplace to use the Multi-Track option, which has been operating successfully in Europe and Japan for several years, according to Wendt Corp.

"OmniSource is always looking for a better way," Rick Chambers of OmniSource says.

"The Wendt / SSE Separator not only recovers more metal from the ASR in a very economical manner, but, in doing so, it also produces a more desirable ASR to be used as alternative daily cover at landfills," Chambers says of the new device.

Casella Waste Systems Inc., Rutland, Vt., is a new user of the Commercial Enterprise Recycling System (CRES) software by Systems Alternatives International (SAI), Maumee, Ohio.

SAI will help Casella implement the system during the summer, bringing the software into active use in early fall.

Casella provides collection, transfer, disposal and recycling services to customers in the northeastern U.S.

SAI has provided software and information technology to recyclers since 1981.

Terex Corp.’s Terex Construction Americas division, Southaven, Miss., has reached a joint marketing arrangement with South Korea’s Daewoo Heavy Industries to offer a line of Terex-branded hydraulic excavators and wheel loaders.

The company says the additional products will "naturally complement" its other products on many infrastructure and site preparation projects.

The new Terex hydraulic excavator line includes machines with operating weights ranging from 30,600 pounds to 110,000 pounds. Designated the TXC Series, capabilities and features include "powerful, quiet, fuel-efficient turbocharged diesel engines that maximize power output and utilization; e-POS System using variable displacement piston pumps to ensure high efficiency and lower fuel consumption; and exceptional bucket breakout and radial tooth forces."

The six new Terex wheel loaders have operating weights ranging from18,960 pounds to 64,000 pounds and bucket sizes from 2.1 to 6.3 cubic yards. Features and benefits include "excellent attachment breakout forces and lift capacities capable of sustaining digging and loading under severe conditions; turbocharged/inter-cooled diesel engines that enhance productivity and reduce fuel consumption; and exceptional view front and rear ROPS/FOPS cabs to maximize bucket corner and maneuver zone visibility," according to the company.