Equipment Report

Ohio Magnetics Inc., Maple Heights, Ohio, has added two new magnet controllers to its product line.

The MC-1.5 A and MC-2 A magnet controllers can provide users with faster magnet operation, according to Ken Richendollar, Ohio Magnetics sales manager, as well as improved drops. They feature separately enclosed resistor assemblies and 230-volt DC operation /70-150 cold magnet amps range and are available in standard automatic or optional manual drop. Both models include a rugged case with heavy-duty interchangeable parts.

General Manager John Wohlegmuth says the Optimizer, "allows customers to control the overall electro-lifting magnet’s operation by adjusting the electric current and current duration times for all operating modes of the magnet, maximizing its performance, production and extending its service life."

Ohio Magnetics Inc. is a subsidiary company of HBD Industries Inc. HBD and its subsidiaries manufacture custom-designed and standard industrial products serving many diverse industries and markets.

More information on the MC-1.5 A and MC-2 A controllers and the Optimizer can be found at www.ohiomagnetics.com.

Industrial Services of America Inc. (IDSA), Louisville, Ky., has purchased a TSC 80 SXS shredding plant from The Shredder Co., Canutillo, Texas, to be installed at IDSA’s main yard.

IDSA’s board of directors approved the purchase of the shredder, which will be installed in the spring of 2008.

The TSC 80 SXS shredding plant will allow IDSA to provide better quality scrap to its consumers, while at the same time broadening the type of scrap that the company can process, according to a press release from The Shredder Co. IDSA plans to process many types of heavy grades that it is presently processing with a shear and to make specialty shredder grades for specific consumers.

Board member Albert Cozzi of Cozzi Consulting Group says that IDSA did extensive research into the types of shredding plants available, deciding on the TSC 80 SXS because it offered a robust shredder, backed by a company with extensive experience and the in-house capacity to produce the required spare parts for successful operation.

More information on TSC shredders is available at www.TheShredderCo.com.

Innov-X Systems, Woburn, Mass., has received an order from OmniSource Corp., Fort Wayne, Ind., to co-develop and deliver a fully automated, high-volume copper extraction system.

The company claims it is the first system in the world to automatically remove free and commingled copper from ferrous shred. The throughput capacity of the system will be up to 150 tons per hour.

The QXR-CE system uses X-ray fluorescence technology, which has successfully been applied to other sorting and separating needs within the recycling industry. The technology positively identifies and sorts mixed metal scrap into specific categories based on highly specific material chemistry. This high level of accuracy improves recoveries and increases asset value for metal recyclers.

"Through necessity, comes invention," John Marynowski, OmniSource Ferrous Group executive vice president, says. "OmniSource chose to work with Innov-X, an industry leader in XRF technology, to develop a copper sorter to meet our customers’ need for low copper shred."

Riverside Engineering, San Antonio, has sold an M-88 Shredder System to Andersen’s Sales and Salvage for its Greeley, Colo., recycling facility.

The system includes an 88-by-112 shredder mill, feed system, operator station and H2PRO water injection system. The plant will be powered by a 4,000-hp DC shredder drive supplied by Quad Plus. The Greeley yard’s upgrade will include a new downstream separation system supplied by Osborn Engineering. A Rockwell Automation system designed by Riverside will control the shredder and downstream functions.

As a result of the installation, the firm expects to increase its production capacity to shred and recycle more than 15,000 tons per month of scrap autos and other metal products.

"Our choice of Riverside was based on their heavier hammer and the higher inertia of their rotor compared to other shredder manufacturers’ 80-inch machines," Dean Andersen, owner of Andersen’s Sales, says. He expects the new processing facility to be installed by early 2008.

"We have integrated several of the key design features of our MegaShredder into the smaller M-88 system," Randy Brace, president of Riverside, says. "We are excited about the opportunity to work with the Andersen’s on this project. We have high expectations, and Andersen’s Sales is the perfect customer for our first M-88 installation."

The U.S. Shredder and Castings Group, headquartered in Brookhaven, Miss., has announced that Steel Dynamics Inc. has selected it to upgrade the company’s current shredder system in Rocky Mount, Va.

The project is the second phase of two upgrades at the yard.

Phase One includes the installation of a stand-alone nonferrous system consisting of three Steinert eddy current systems and an ISS system.

Phase Two will add a WEG 4000-hp motor, U.S. Shredder’s shredder control and management system, water injection system, new control housing with operator station, U.S. Shredder’s closed-loop air system and new ferrous downstream equipment. Then the ferrous downstream system will be connected to the nonferrous system, all of which will be operating inside a newly erected building.