Equipment report

US Shredder and Castings Group commissions aluminum shredder at MOST

Miramar Beach, Florida-based U.S. Shredder and Castings Group, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2016, has commissioned a 7090 heavy-duty aluminum shredder at MOST Inc., Troy, Missouri, a subsidiary of Toyota Tsusho America Inc.

The supplier says installation began in early January 2016 and took less than 60 days to complete. U.S. Shredder handled the project as a turnkey installation, providing civil and electrical engineering, a building that encloses the shredder and downstream, hydraulics and mechanical installation.

The shredder is driven by an AC motor provided by Amerimex of Houston. The shredder system includes an auto-pilot system for operational efficiency as well as an automated water injection system, according to U.S. Shredder.

The 7090 shredder replaces a smaller shredder at the foundry and is capable of handling between 40 and 100 tons per hour, depending on the horsepower of the motor. The system is fed by a heavy-duty infeed conveyor with hydraulic drive, according to U.S. Shredder, which also will provide the wear parts and castings for the shredder.

U.S. Shredder and Castings Group offers scrap shredders, control systems, downstream systems and nonferrous recovery and air systems, as well as shredder castings, service, engineering, construction and installation, to the worldwide scrap industry.

More information on U.S. Shredder is available at www.usshredder.com.

American Baler expands dealer network

American Baler, Bellevue, Ohio, a manufacturer of closed-door horizontal balers, auto-tie horizontal balers and two-ram balers has added the following dealers:

• Jim and Adam Langley of AA Fluid Power, Sumiton, Alabama, will represent Alabama and Mississippi;
• Wayne Crigler and Julian Hailey of Crigler Enterprises, Mableton, Georgia, will represent Georgia;
• Sean Justin, Kim Hayes and John Greider of DeHart Recycling Equipment, St. Louis, will represent Missouri and Kansas;
• Nick Jobson of Jarshire Waste & Recycling, Slough, England, will represent the United Kingdom; and
• Poul Steffensen and Henning Norgaard of WamaTech, Odense, Denmark, will represent Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Germany and Greece.

For more information, visit http://americanbaler.com/find-a-dealer.

Wendt Corp. sells Heavy 106 shredder and nonferrous separation system

Laval, Quebec-based Total Metal Recovery Inc. (TMR), a scrap metal recycling company, has purchased a Wendt Model 106 Heavy shredder plant and nonferrous recovery system from Wendt Corp., Buffalo, New York.

Wendt will supply TMR with a newly designed 106-inch-by-115-inch Heavy shredder that features a Bowe disc rotor and a 6,000-horsepower motor. The shredder plant consists of a ferrous downstream system that will produce high-quality, low-copper shred, the company says.

“We wanted to gain a competitive advantage in a tough market,” says Claude Verret, TMR chief operating officer. “Wendt’s successful track record, capabilities to deliver and support such a large project and the reference shredder plants we visited were all impressive.”

TMR plans to process automobiles and other shreddable material, producing 250,000 tons annually of shredded scrap.

“Our purchase in this modern shredder and downstream system will allow us to shred efficiently and recover all of the valuable metals,” Verret says.

Wendt also will supply a nonferrous recovery system that includes Tomra Sorting’s sensor-based Finder technology. The nonferrous system will recover traditional nonferrous metals, such as aluminum (zorba) and stainless steel (zurik), in addition to recovering copper wires and minus-10-millimeter fines that contain precious metals.

“In today’s market, you don’t have the choice not to get the latest technology because all of the margin is in ASR (auto shredder residue), and that’s the reason we purchased this system from Wendt,” Verret says. “We have to get the maximum level of metal from the ASR to be competitive, and with our new layout we will be able to give our customers what they want,” he adds.

The sale of the Went Model 106 Heavy shredder marks the first large (mega) shredder project that will be built from scratch in North America in several years by any shredder manufacturer, Wendt says. In more recent years, Wendt shredder sales have trended toward the M6090, 2,500-horsepower modular shredder.

Wendt President Tom Wendt says, “At a time when everything you read is about how much excess shredder capacity is in the marketplace, there is still a market for modern, efficient plants that operate at a lower cost and recover a greater percentage of valuable metals.”

TMR’s new greenfield operation will be in the center of the busiest area of the East of Canada, a 3-million-square-foot industrial park, and will be installed and commissioned in the fourth quarter of 2016, Wendt says.

Consortium of recycling industry manufacturers form 3TEK Global

Three suppliers of scrap recycling equipment have announced the formation of a joint venture and the launch of a new company that they say will serve the needs of a changing scrap metal industry. The new company, 3TEK Global, incorporates product engineering, manufacturing and product support from Granutech-Saturn Systems, Peninsula Equipment and Riverside Engineering. The combined company headquarters are in Grand Prairie, Texas.

Granutech-Saturn Systems, based in Grand Prairie, manufactures Saturn heavy-duty shredders and hammermills, MAC crushers and loggers, grinders and granulators, powderizers and refiner mills.

Peninsula Equipment, based in Columbia, South Carolina, is a sales, rental and service company serving the scrap, contracting, construction and aggregate processing industries of Florida, Georgia and South Carolina.

Riverside Engineering, based in San Antonio, provides shredder designs, technology and engineering services for the metal recycling industry.

3TEK Global was created to bring the next line of mobile and stationary hammermill shredders and related downstream separation equipment to small to medium-sized yards processing less than 50 tons per hour.

Bill Padula, vice president of Peninsula Equipment and vice president of sales for 3TEK Global, says, “The industry is changing. 3TEK’s core focus is to provide innovative technology, based upon proven platforms manufactured in the USA, that help small to midsized scrap processors take control of growing their business.”

The company says its 3TEK Next 7400 mobile shredder hammermill system will be in production in the second quarter of 2016, with follow-up releases in 2017 to include a smaller unit, the 3TEK Next 6000, a 60-inch diameter hammermill shredder in stationary and mobile configurations.

More information is available at www.3TEKglobal.com.

Copper Recovery debuts Phoenix

Copper Recovery Inc., Huntington Beach, California, says its new cable recycling plant, called Phoenix, has been designed to “become the premier wire chopper in its class.”

“With over a decade of running a wire chopper, as well as selling and servicing them, we are uniquely positioned to make the best-in-class product for our customers,” says the firm’s CEO Christopher Carlson. “We will continue to support our customers’ investment into the future with parts and equipment but will now also produce what we believe to be a higher quality, updated and more powerful model.”

The Phoenix’s manufacturing partner holds multiple quality certifications, including ISO 9001 and ISO 14000, and several welding certifications. The manufacturer also is “certified by multiple third-party companies that validate the safety, reliability and quality of products,” says Copper Recovery.

Fuchs reveals MHL370 F material handler

The Fuchs MHL370 F material handler, introduced at the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries 2016 Convention & Exposition in early April, is built for high production in large scrap operations and port applications. It features a heavy counterweight and a large undercarriage with a 17.9-foot-by-20.6-foot outrigger stance to offer stability and high lift capacities at extended reach, according to the manufacturer.

The MHL370 F offers two straight boom reach options—55 feet and 59.9 feet. A 59.9-foot cranked boom option is available for port applications.

“Facilities running mega shredders who require a high-capacity, extremely efficient material handler with long reach will especially benefit from this new Fuchs material handler model,” says John Van Ruitenbeek, Fuchs North American business line director.

Visit www.terex-fuchs.com for more information.