Equipment Report

Howell Tractor and Equipment, Gary, Ind., has become a distributor of Sennebogen material handling equipment.

Howell Tractor is a heavy construction and earth-moving equipment dealer serving northern Illinois from stores in Elk Grove Village and Peru, Ill., and serving northwestern Indiana from its Gary, Ind., location.

"I become familiar with Sennebogen green machines early on in my career and when I heard that the line might be available to us here at Howell Tractor, I immediately got the ball rolling," Tom Ellis, general manager of Howell Tractor, says.

The company’s confidence in Sennebogen Green Line material handlers showed in the company’s first order for five machines last fall.

Howell Tractor sold its first machine—an 850 M—before it even arrived at the company’s Gary yard. Tube City’s Gary location was already familiar with the line, as Sennebogen delivered its first 870 M unit to the facility in 2001.

Howell Tractor, a Lanco Group company, also put in a full order for Sennebogen parts and products. The company’s service department employs 23 people. Ellis says, "Service is one of those value-added elements that a dealer can bring to the table. And that’s why our company is committed to being service driven."

Sennebogen America is based in Charlotte, N.C., and offers a complete range of purpose-built machines to suit almost any heavy-lift or pick-and-carry application. More information is available at www.sennebogen-na.com.

Van Dyk Baler Corp., Stamford, Conn., has announced that Cal Tigchelaar of Resource Management Cos. (RMC), Chicago Ridge, Ill., has purchased the company’s third Bollegraaf baler.

Joining another Bollegraaf HBC-110F baler at the company’s Chicago Ridge plant, the new HBC-110F baler with an extra-wide feed hopper will be installed late this year at RMC’s Chicago Ridge facility.

In addition to the two HBC-110F balers, RMC also has a Bollegraaf HBC-80 baler at its Earth City, Mo., plant outside of St. Louis.

More information on Bollegraaf equipment is available from Van Dyk Baler Corp., the exclusive North American distributor for Bollegraaf Recycling Machinery, at www.vandykbaler.com.

PC Scale Inc., Oxford, Pa., a developer and provider of scale house software, has developed the Scale Monitoring Module, which it says facilitates audit scale activity by logging ticketed and non-ticketed weighments, ensuring that all traffic crossing the scale is legitimate and that no vehicles cross the scale without a weight being captured.

Using the module, the system administrator can set a minimum weight to be captured. The module will then generate a report on all weighments over the specified weight.

Scale Monitoring Module reports are controlled from within PC Scale’s security settings, so management can grant or restrict access. Three report types—scale log, ticket-to-scale log comparison and scale log-to-ticket comparison—are standard. Custom reports are available upon request.

PC Scale has offices in Pennsylvania, Maine, Arizona, California and Washington. The company specializes in design, development, installation and training of its SMART Solution data management software for industries that use truck, floor and rail scales. More information is available at www.pcscale.com.

Benlee, Romulus, Mich., has introduced the Super Mini.

With a total length of 25 feet 11 inches when hooked to a tractor as a short truck, the Super Mini offers better maneuverability than a truck and weighs in at only 13,500 pounds, according to Benlee. It can carry up to a 24-foot container.

Greg Brown, president of Benlee, says the Super Mini can carry more weight than a three-axle truck, cutting down on the number of trips recyclers must make.

"Our customers now have a vehicle that can get into very tight spaces that roll-off trucks cannot get into, yet it can carry high payloads," Brown says.

More information is available at www.benlee.com.