Equipment Report

The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries Inc. (ISRI), headquartered in Washington, D.C., is hosting an operations forum for scrap recycling plant managers in the shadow of the Alamo in San Antonio, Jan. 20-23, 2005.

Billed by ISRI as "a conference for persons responsible for the safe and efficient operation of scrap recycling facilities," the ISRI Operations Forum will include educational sessions and tours of scrap facilities in the San Antonio area.

The forum will include information on shredder and hydraulics maintenance, safety and environmental management, transportation issues and a separate session on metals and commodities identification.

Detailed descriptions and maintenance suggestions for several types of equipment will be offered. The equipment to be covered includes conveyors, cranes, loaders, shredders, castings, electric motors and magnetic separation equipment.

Human resources topics to be addressed at the forum will include safety programs, hiring and firing, humor and harassment, substance abuse and multi-cultural considerations.

The forum will also offer tours of San Antonio area facilities, including a scrap processing site and a scrap consuming facility.

Those seeking additional information on the forum or those who are interested in registering can call ISRI at (202) 737-1770 or visit www.isri.org/seminars/ops2005.

An image appearing on page 46 of the October 2004 issue of Recycling Today is neither a bird nor a plane, nor is it a tire shredding machine.

The scrap tire commodity focus feature in the October issue included a sidebar entitled "Separate Ways," about the updated tire shredding equipment now on the market.

Unfortunately, the photo running with the write-up was of a wire and cable baling device distributed by Wendt Corp., Tonawanda, N.Y.

Thanks to Steve Branson of Wendt Corp. for informing us of our error and for providing us with a more appropriate image of this Eldan HR-162T model offered by Wendt, which is in fact used to shred tires. Recycling Today regrets the error.