JEWELL CELEBRATES GRAND OPENING
Jewell Attachments has opened its new, 60,000-square-foot manufacturing plant in the Portland, Ore., suburb of Tualatin.
Customers, dealers, vendors, suppliers and personnel from Jewell’s parent company Paladin attended the opening day celebration. Founder Jim Kirkpatrick, General Manager Dannie Smith and Paladin Chairman Bill Van Sant participated in the ribbon cutting.
"This new facility will allow better manufacturing techniques to take hold, reduce lead times and afford an overall streamlining of the production process," Van Sant said. "It will also allow Jewell to make that leap to the next level in serving new customers and new markets, a move that was simply not possible in the company’s previous location."
Key components of the new facility include a 48-foot CNC controlled plasma burn center, multiple machining centers, areas for fabrication, overhead cranes with five-ton to 20-ton capacities and enough floor space to accommodate a sizable number of excavator conversions, attachments or components simultaneously.
Jewell Attachments specializes in converting excavators for special-duty use in the logging, material handling, demolition and construction industries. The company also makes equipment and attachments for use in those and other industries.
More information is available at www.jewellattachments.com.
GLOBAL SHREDDING ADDS SENNEBOGEN MATERIAL HANDLERS
Global Shredding Technologies, an auto-shredding facility that operates within the Gerdau Ameristeel mill in Baldwin, Fla., added three 850 M Series scrap handlers from Sennebogen North America, Charlotte, N.C., during the summer of 2005.
Global Shredding’s Steve Garber, a 43-year industry veteran, says, "Being in the business as long as I have, I try to stay up to date on what it available and what the industry is saying about scrap handlers." He adds, "Sennebogen came to my attention a number of times through trade events, magazines and from talking to other people in the industry."
One of the company’s 850 M units is kept busy by feeding material to the 6,000-hp Newell 98-104 shredder on site, while the other two are used to unload incoming ferrous material and to perform general yard work.
"We’re happy someone like Steve Garber and Global Shredding Technologies recognize the value Sennebogen offers," Constantino Lannes, president of Sennebogen North America, says.
"At Sennebogen our philosophy is to make sure that we meet customers’ requirements with equipment that is built to suit their purpose," Lannes adds.
More information on Sennebogen and its line of purpose-built material handlers is available online at www.sennebogen-na.com.
NEXGEN INTRODUCES RAZ-R MOBILE SHEAR
NexGen Baling Sytems, a division of Veron, Ala.-based Marathon Equipment Co., has introduced the Raz-R line of mobile shears.
The 81,000-pound Raz-R is available in six models with a cutting force range of 600 to 1,800 tons. The shears have no electrical requirements nor do they require a foundation or an operator.
More information is available at www.nexgenbalers.com.
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