METAL MANAGEMENT CHOOSES WENDT FOR MEMPHIS SHREDDER
Wendt Corp., Tonawanda, N.Y., has announced that Metal Management’s Memphis facility has chosen the company to custom design and build a shredder to replace a 10-year-old Newell 98x104 shredder.
Wendt custom manufactured the "drop-in" replacement 98x104 shredder that will provide several features found in the recently introduced Heavy line of auto shredders, including a drop-in front wall, deflector top and grates that are fully supported to the base plate.
The new unit allows Metal Management to reuse the disc rotor and many existing castings and liner plates from its previous shredder. According to Wendt’s Mark Ridall, Wendt was the only manufacturer that offered to re-use as much of the previous shredder as possible in the manufacturing of the new shredder, providing Metal Management with significant savings.
Wendt Corp. provides a wide range of customized processing equipment. More information is available online at www.wendtcorp.com.
COMPANY WRENCH HOSTS OPEN HOUSE
Company Wrench, a distributor of heavy equipment for the recycling industry, held an open house in mid-November to celebrate the opening of its new headquarters in Carroll, Ohio.
Groundbreaking on the 26,000-square-foot building was April 4, 2005. The cost of the construction was $2.4 million. Company Wrench received assistance on the project from the Fairfield County, Ohio, Economic Development Office.
Company Wrench, which says it hopes to reach sales of $50 million within the next five years, began as a truck, trailer and equipment shop in central Ohio in 1999.
In 2001, the company added parts and service for such companies as Stanley Hammer, LaBounty Attachments, Gehl, XL Specialty Trailers, Norris and Beka-Max, becoming a full-fledged distributor of the equipment in 2002.
In 2004, LaBounty Attachments named Company Wrench the country’s No. 1 LaBounty dealer.
Brad Hutchinson, Company Wrench co-owner, says the company keeps a large supply of equipment on hand, enabling quick turnaround for customers seeking to purchase, rent or lease equipment.
Company Wrench expects to open an additional facility in the Cleveland area in the first half of 2006.
More information on Company Wrench is available online at www.companywrench.com.
LINDEMANN SHEARS TO BE BUILT IN TEXAS
Metso Texas Shredder Inc., based in San Antonio, has announced that it will begin making the Lindemann line of EC (Eta-cut) Shears for North American scrap recyclers.
The company has hired Navin Mangal as the Lindemann Shears and Balers product line project manager. Mangal will be the liaison between the new manufacturing program in the United States and the engineering resources located at Metso Lindemann headquarters in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Metso Texas Shredder, recently formed when Texas Shredder was merged into Metso Lindemann North America in the fall of 2005, has a significant presence in North America’s metals shredding equipment supply sector.
"Now, with the manufacture of the EC Scrap Shear product line here in San Antonio, we anticipate that we will bring our North American customers even greater efficiencies regarding initial capital investment and delivery," says Bill Tigner, the company’s vice president of sales and marketing.
Metso Texas Shredder is part of Finland’s Metso Minerals, a global supplier of process machinery and metal recycling equipment.
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