Equipment Report

ISS-RT to install shredder in Houston

The Recycling Technologies business unit of Industrial Service Solutions (ISS-RT), Houston, says it will supply a 7090 model automobile shredder plant to Prestige Auto and Metal Recycling, also in Houston.

The system will be driven by an ISS-AmeriMex 4,000-horsepower AC medium-voltage Enforcer variable speed drive and will be able to process up to 100 tons per hour, depending on the feedstock, according to ISS-RT.

The ferrous processing line and the nonferrous plant will include electro-drum magnets and eddy current separators provided by SGM Magnetics, an Italy-based company with its United States office in Florida.

The nonferrous plant also will feature a Taper-Slot Screen provided by Oregon-based Action Vibratory Equipment. That device is designed to eliminate the need for a trommel screen to perform materials separation, according to ISS-RT.

“The 7090 was designed to fit the gap between a 6090 shredder and an 80104,” says Bill Tigner, vice president of ISS-RT. “The 70-inch diameter rotor gives an operator 32 percent more hammer impact than a 60-inch rotor and is built with the same thicknesses as our heavy-duty 80-inch mill.”

Prestige owner Keny Daniele says he researched different shredder suppliers for years. “Looking at our needs for capacity as well as the need for processing heavier scrap, there was no comparison in the 7090 and the 60-inch shredders. The 7090 will give us years of growth potential.”

ISS-RT designs, engineers and manufactures motors and drives in-house at its Houston facility. Shredder controls, including the housing, control chair, monitors, camera system and electrical panels, will be supplied by the ISS-CPL facility that is based in Lafayette, Louisiana.

ISS-RT describes itself as serving a broad range of industry applications with multiple types of equipment. The company operates from 45 locations and provides field services, service shops, supply shops and parts.

Epax Systems to distribute Macpresse Europa

MP North America LLC has been tasked with building Macpresse’s dealer network in the U.S. and Canada. The company has selected Epax Systems Inc., a Panorama, California-based supplier and installer of compaction systems for waste and recyclables, to represent the complete line of Macpresse balers for municipal solid waste facilities and recycling plants.

“The addition of these large-scale systems completes our product line and allows us to support recycling efforts from the smallest company to the largest municipality,” Epax’s Stefan Nielsen says.

Macpresse systems are manufactured in Milan at the company’s 200,000-square-foot facility. The systems are suitable for baling old corrugated containers, polyethylene terephthalate, municipal solid waste (MSW), refuse-derived fuel and commercial and industrial waste.

With machines that feature throughput capacities of more than 66 tons per hour for MSW, Macpresse systems are designed to keep up with the most demanding requirements, Epax says. 

In addition to balers, Macpresse manufactures auxiliary equipment that includes sorting stations, industrial shredders, conveyors and stretch wrappers.