Equipment report

Lakeshore Recycling Systems selects Machinex

Lakeshore Recycling Systems, headquartered in Morton Grove, Illinois, has opened a new material recovery facility (MRF) in Forest View, Illinois. The single-stream system, in operation for only three weeks as of mid-March, was designed, engineered, manufactured and installed by Machinex, Plessisville, Quebec.

The new system in Forest View includes a series of disc screen separators: a Mach OCC to sort cardboard, a Mach One to separate newspapers and a Mach Ballistic to be used as a finishing screen for mixed fibers, Machinex says.

The system also includes a Mach Hyspec optical sorter, ferrous and nonferrous separators, a closed-door baler for plastic film and a glass cleanup system. Lakeshore also chose Machinex’s new high-capacity II-Ram baler.

Machinex says the system exceeds the capacity requirement of 15 tons per hour, achieving 22.5 tons per hour.

Jon Schroeder, general manager at Lakeshore Recycling Systems, says of Machinex, “From their installation crew to the startup team, their employees were great to work with. Everyone was very professional and made time to listen to our questions and concerns and addressed them right away.”

More information on Machinex is available online at www. machinextechnologies.com.

SA Recycling selects Brady’s Commodity Recycling Enterprise solution

London-based Brady PLC, a leading provider of trading, risk management and settlement solutions to the energy, commodities and recycling sectors, has announced that following SA Recycling’s recent acquisition of Newell Recycling Southeast LLC, a total of 70 of the company’s locations are now using Brady’s Commodity Recycling Enterprise solution to automate their business and operational processes.

Anaheim, California-headquartered SA Recycling’s 70 facilities are located throughout the southwestern United States as well as in Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee.

Mark Sweetman, CFO of SA Recycling, says, “Brady is so integral to the running of our business that it is imperative that any businesses we acquire are up and running on Brady’s platform as quickly as possible. We leave no room for any error.”

He adds, “With the sophistication of the Brady solution, we were delighted to have all 17 locations integrated on the system with users operating online in under 90 days.”

He says the Newell accounting team had been spending 15 days to complete month-end accounts. After they began using Brady’s Commodity Recycling Enterprise solution, they completed this task in three days.

He says, “Fully costed transactions and inventory positions are crucial to our management of the business, and we believe that the Brady software is the best positioned to provide that data, in particular since it recently acquired Scrap-Runner, the industry leader in the trucking fleet dispatch and container management side of the business.”

Gavin Lavelle, CEO of Brady PLC, says, “Brady’s solution for recycling companies focuses on the unique financial, commercial and operational management requirements of recycling companies.”

He credits the teams at SA Recycling and Newell for the quick implementation, saying, “Their planning and execution show what can be accomplished when organized and managed correctly.”

More information on Brady is available at www.bradyplc.com.

Eriez introduces Rare Earth Roll Conveyor

Eriez, Erie, Pennsylvania, unveiled its Rare Earth Roll Conveyor at the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) 2016 Convention & Exposition at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas April 2-7. Eriez says the machine allows customers to recover and concentrate stainless steel from the zurik conductive fraction produced by a fines-to-1-inch sensor sorting machine or waste fraction from a fines-to-1-inch eddy current separator.

“For wire chopping facilities, this new Rare Earth Roll Conveyor is a game-changer,” says Mike Shattuck, Eriez market manager, metals recycling. “It is the most effective solution offered today for removing stray stainless steel prior to any chopping lines.”

Chris Ramsdell, product manager, recycling, explains, “Even a minute amount of stainless steel in the stream can cause expensive damage to blades on wire choppers.

“Our new Rare Earth Roll Conveyor outperforms competitive units with its incredibly high-strength rare earth roll,” he continues. “With a magnetic field strength in excess of 20,000 gauss on the roll surface, this is the strongest permanent magnet available anywhere.”

The conveyor is designed on 5-foot centers with a high-strength magnetic head pulley. A 17-mil Kevlar belt conveys material over the rare earth roll.

Eriez says input material must be magnetically treated prior to reaching the Rare Earth Roll Conveyor to avoid damage to the belt.

More information is available at http://erieznews.com/nr367.

CP Group to install single-stream MRF for Iowa county waste commission

The Waste Commission of Scott County (WCSC), Buffalo, Iowa, has partnered with CP Group, San Diego, to decommission its existing dual-stream recycling system and install a new single-stream material recovery facility (MRF) in Davenport, Iowa.

The new MRF will help WCSC achieve its goal of recovering more recyclables throughout the county while minimizing solid waste going to landfill, CP Group says. The system’s targeted performance rate will capture 95 percent or more of the recyclables.

“There is a lot of material to be processed,” says Kathy Morris, WCSC director.

WCSC serves 75,000 households throughout Scott County, the third largest county in Iowa.

“Moving from dual-stream recycling to single-stream recycling will increase the quantity and variety of recyclables recovered in the WCSC’s service area,” she adds.

The MRF also will bale plastics, cardboard and other materials recovered at WCSC’s nearby Electronic Demanufacturing Facility.

CP Group will decommission the old equipment and build, install and start up the new single-stream recycling system, which will handle approximately 20,000 tons per year (or 10 tons per hour) of residential recyclables. New CP sorting equipment will be used in conjunction with a new and an existing baler to create an integrated, cost-effective solution in WCSC’s existing building, according to CP Group.

“The installation is going very well,” Morris says. “We are pleased with the system design, and we appreciate the extent to which CP Group has been involved in the process. The CP team has been awesome to work with.”

CP disc screen technology features prominently in the single-stream system. The CP OCCScreen captures cardboard, while the CP Glass Breaker Screen captures glass and removes fines. The CPScreen uses patented cam-lobe discs that are designed to offer the proper agitation to separate 3D containers from 2D fiber, helping WCSC achieve its targeted 95 percent material capture rate, according to CP Group.

Advanced MRF, CP Group’s electrical controls division, will engineer and install WCSC’s advanced electrical controls and UL 508A certified enclosures.

The system also features several key ergonomic improvements, CP says.

“The layout has been designed to maximize the tip areas, processing areas and end product storage areas, such as bunkers and bale storage areas,” says Patrick Nicol, CP Group sales engineer and the designer of the system.

“We’ve also increased the rolling equipment paths,” he continues. “This increases safety, improves ease of maintenance and provides better ergonomics for workers—all of which help to increase system uptime.”

According to CP Group, startup and commissioning of the single-stream system in Davenport is scheduled for July 2016.

More information on CP Group is available at www.cpgrp.com.

TAV partners with IMRO Magnetics

TAV Holdings, Atlanta, a processor and developer of sorting solutions, has entered an exclusive partnership agreement with IMRO, Uffenheim, Germany, to provide magnetic separation technology in North America.

With 25 years of experience, IMRO has become a leading German manufacturer of recycling machinery and equipment. The company offers separation, sorting and recovery of metals from various waste streams, such as incineration bottom ash, shredded scrap products, electronic scrap, wood, plastics, glass and others.

With the addition of IMRO’s product lines, TAV has expanded its technology portfolio, which includes turnkey systems with proprietary sizing screening technology, conveying systems, density separation and sensor sorters.

More information is available online at http://tav holdingsinc.net.

Schutte-Buffalo opens test lab

Buffalo, New York-based size reduction equipment manufacturer Schutte-Buffalo has opened its newly constructed test facility.

The new lab, featuring a dual-shaft industrial shredder, pneumatic discharge hammer mill and laboratory scale gravity discharge hammer mill, is able to determine the size reduction capabilities of a wide array of materials in the agricultural products, bulk solids, recycling and wood processing industries, according to the company.

This testing is offered as a complimentary service to existing and potential Schutte-Buffalo customers.

Upon completion, customers will receive photos of their processed materials, sieve analyses, explanations of the feasibility of meeting stated production goals and detailed proposals for the size reduction equipment recommended for achieving those goals, Schutte-Buffalo says. In addition, customers are welcome to witness the testing at the facility firsthand.

More information is available from the company at www.hammermills.com.