Cresswood Shredding Machinery, based in Cortland, Ill., has named Ohio Baler Co., Cleveland, as its distributor, covering sales and supporting factory-direct service, in Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky and western Pennsylvania.
Cresswood designs and builds single-shaft, low-speed shredders.
Ohio Baler offers turnkey systems integration, including sales of new and used equipment, installation and systems services for document destruction and material recovery facilities.
Ohio Baler President Mike McChrystal, says, "I think that Cresswood is an excellent fit for our company. They build high-quality, well designed equipment and provide exceptional support to both the end user and the dealer."
Jack Cress, CEO of Cresswood, says, "Cresswood’s goal is to focus as much personalized attention on fulfilling the needs of our customers as possible. We want to be an asset to their business, and our partnership with Ohio Baler is a tremendous step in that direction." He adds, "Both parties bring valuable resources to the table, and Cresswood is confident that professionals in the secure destruction and paper recycling industries will reap the benefits of this alliance."
The Crowley Co. Partners with Eastman Kodak
The Crowley Co., Frederick, Md., has partnered with Kodak Service and Support, a unit of Kodak’s Document Imaging business division, to offer technical services for imaging hardware.
"This is a beneficial alliance for our customers," says Christopher Crowley, president of The Crowley Co. "Kodak Service and Support will provide outsourced maintenance and support on a variety of our Mekel Technology and Zeutschel copying and scanning equipment where it makes geographic sense," he adds.
He adds that for clients outside of The Crowley Co.’s mid-Atlantic service region, the agreement offers quick turnaround on the company’s standard service agreement visits and for immediate repair needs.
The Crowley Co. will continue to hold all customer agreements and be the sole point of customer contact. Kodak will be the preferred subcontractor when in the geographic area.
All training of Kodak Service and Support personnel will be provided by either The Crowley Co., which owns and manufactures Mekel Technology microfiche, microfilm and aperture card scanners, or by Zeutschel, a German manufacturer of scanners and other devices.
"We’re looking forward to working with The Crowley Co. to deliver world-class service and support to its customers," says J. Patrick Welch, director of U.S. service sales for document imaging in Kodak’s Graphic Communications Group.
Vecoplan Makes Mobile Division Appointments
Vecoplan LLC, a shredding equipment manufacturer based in High Point, N.C., has announced the appointment of two sales managers.
Richard Smallwood has been appointed to the position of sales manager – mobile division. In addition to overseeing sales of mobile shredding systems, Smallwood functions as a liaison between the marketplace and Vecoplan, communicating changing and specialized customer needs to Vecoplan’s engineering R&D team. Smallwood also works with the marketing department to introduce innovations in mobile technologies.
Prior to joining Vecoplan, Smallwood spent 29 years in industrial truck sales.
"We worked with Richard at his former company," says Chris Hawn, director of business development in Vecoplan’s waste division. "During this time, Richard impressed us with his knowledge and understanding of not only trucks, but also size-reduction technology in general and his ability to grasp the needs of individual customers and then make sure those needs were met."
In addition, Mike Campbell has joined Vecoplan as a sales manager in its mobile division. Campbell is responsible for overseeing sales of Vecoplan’s mobile shredding systems to the document destruction industry. Campbell also works with the R&D engineering team on constantly improving technologies for Vecoplan’s shred trucks and with the marketing department to introduce these innovations to the marketplace.
Prior to joining Vecoplan, Campbell was the Southeastern sales manager at All Source Security Containers. He also brings five years of experience as a sales manager at On-Site Shred, a provider of on-site and off-site security shredding services.
Vecoplan is a leader in size-reduction technologies, including shredders, material handing machinery, separation equipment and complete reduction systems for a variety of industrial markets.
ShredTime Opens Second Location
Kansas City, Mo.-based ShredTime, a Media Services company, has opened a second facility in Lenexa, Kan., where the company’s clients can drop off documents for secure shredding.
ShredTime offers two facilities in Greater Kansas City where businesses and individuals can drop off documents for destruction: the Meritex Underground Business Park in Lenexa and the Huntmidwest Subtroplis in Kansas City, Mo.
The company also recently expanded its fleet with the addition of a Paper Predator 26 shred truck from UltraShred, Spokane Valley, Wash.
ShredTime is AAA certified for on-site and off-site secure shredding services by the National Association for Information Destruction (NAID), Phoenix, and also is a member of Information Protection Solutions of America (IPSA), Chicago.
IPSA is a network of NAID-certified shredding firms that "are committed to serving the entire United States regardless of location without relying on outside contractors to service difficult to reach locales," according to its Web site.
Media Services and ShredTime offer a full range of record management services, including record storage, secure shredding, document imaging and off-site data storage.
Shredder Express Opens in Altamonte Springs, Fla.
Shredder Express LLC, a secure document destruction company, has opened in Altamonte Springs, Fla., offering walk-in and collection services from its 3,600-square-foot location.
Partners Joe Hursh, a marketing executive; Mark McLaughlin, a finance executive; and Richard Sleslak, a consulting executive, founded the firm.
The equipment at Shredder Express can destroy up to 1,000 pounds of paper per hour.
Costs for the service begin at $39.95 for up to three boxes of documents.
In addition to its drop-off service, Shredder Express offers a secure collection service and will pick up material from offices, homes or storage units. The company also offers secure containers for offices as well as for medical and financial institutions with monthly scheduled pickup service.
The Crowley Co. Digitizes Images from Life magazine Archives
Nearly 20 employees with The Crowley Co., Frederick, Md., have been tasked with digitizing nearly 10 million images from Time Inc.’s Life magazine archives for the last two years.
The archive, known as Life’s Photo Archive, is available on a new hosted image service from Google at http://images.google.com/hosted/life.
Working since December of 2006 and led by project manager DeAnne Larsen, the Crowley staff has seen never-before-published photos of distinguished personalities and celebrities, world events, wars, scientific advances and the intimate drama of daily life.
Andy Blau, Life president, says, "Crowley was selected for the digitizing task because of their advanced photo-digitizing solutions, long corporate history of providing quality workmanship in a high-volume scanning environment and their staff’s expertise with the handling of digital imagery and numerous types of analog photographic media."
The Crowley Co. VP and Service Bureau Chief Patrick Crowley says, "Working on this project has been a privilege. Not only is it one of the most interesting archives we’ve digitized, it has propelled us to develop some creative production approaches, such as the designing and engineering of a custom camera stand that allowed for increased scanning volume and quality of 35-millimeter negatives."
In addition to the volume of images, Larsen says detailed tracking and quality control have been imperative to the success of the project. "Each piece of physical data is catalogued in an internal database to ensure that nothing is lost and to provide easy cross-reference," she says. "Each image is scanned and checked for the highest degree of quality that the original image will allow and then given a Digimarc (a digital watermark) for copyright protection."
Crowley also has performed scanning for The Library of Congress, The U.S. Holocaust Museum and SmallTownNewspapers.
Technology Association Elects DataChambers CEO as Vice Chair
Nicholas Kottyan, CEO of Winston-Salem, N.C.-based DataChambers, has been elected vice chairman of the North Carolina Technology Association (NCTA), a nonprofit trade association and the primary voice of the technology industry in North Carolina.
Kottyan previously served as the association’s vice president of membership, playing a pivotal role in developing a new NCTA membership category for information technology professionals, which was rolled out in late 2008.
Kottyan has more than 25 years of experience in the technology field and has headed publicly traded and privately held firms. He is a former senior vice president of CT Communications Inc., a telephone company in Concord, N.C., where he led an expansion into new long distance, wireless PCS and Internet services markets. He also founded Teledial America of North Carolina and served as CEO of Peak 10 Inc., and Phone America of Carolina.
Kottyan’s current company, DataChambers, specializes in electronic data storage, network and monitoring solutions, managed information technology solutions, co-location services, secure tape vaulting and off-site records storage and management.
Archive Systems to Service Insurance Brokerage Firm
Archive Systems, a Fairfield, N.J.-based provider of records management services, has been contracted to provide Virtual File Delivery, business records storage and shredding services to a leading insurance brokerage firm.
To manage its business records more effectively, the firm uses Archive Systems’ Virtual Records Center (VRC), a Web-based records management system. VRC enables the insurance brokerage firm to request Virtual File Delivery to view documents online. The firm can then provide authorized employees and third parties secure access to these imaged files.
In addition to Virtual File Delivery, VRC allows Archive Systems’ clients to search inventory, request physical file delivery, schedule pickups or deliveries and order supplies from the desktop.
The company also is storing files at Archive Systems’ off-site records center facility and will be using its shredding services to destroy documents based on the firm’s retention policy.
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