Equipment Report

Lindemann Metal Recycling Solutions plans midrange product line

For more than 20 years, the Lindemann brand was part of Metso, which merged with Outotec in 2020—both Finland-based companies. Lindemann represented the combined company’s Metal Recycling business unit. In the summer of 2021, Metso Outotec decided to divest this business unit as part of its restructuring, selling it to the Swedish investment firm Mimir AB.

“The business will be operated under the name Lindemann – Metal Recycling Solutions from Day 1 and in this manner find its way back to its legendary roots,” Mimir Managing Partner and group Chairman Joakim Notö said at the time of the announcement.

Lindemann CEO and Director Ioannis Giouvanitskas says, “Mimir has all the necessary resources to support Lindemann in expanding its leading position in the market in the medium term—a great opportunity for lifting the company to the next level and to return its focus to the core values of the founder Waldemar Lindemann: quality, performance and innovation.”

Lindemann – Metal Recycling Solutions is based in Düsseldorf, Germany, where the company’s functional departments, administration and service center also operate. “The connections to our international sites are simply ideal from here," Giouvanitskas says. Lindemann currently has 180 employees at 14 locations worldwide.”

The service center measures more than 86,000 square feet. The center repairs shredder housings and rotors, and small shredders and baling presses are assembled on-site.

A large part of machine production takes place regionally, within a radius of less than 100 miles from Düsseldorf, Giouvanitskas says, adding, “The physical proximity to these partners allows us reliable quality assurance and high flexibility in the entire manufacturing process of our machines.”

Lindemann EtaCut II shears are equipped with “intelligent” pump control that only supplies power when it is needed. The 400-bar technology also ensures significantly lower flow losses.

Giouvanitskas says the company is planning to introduce a standardized midrange product line with the quality of premium machines, so smaller companies can invest in a Lindemann machine.

Lindemann’s approach to motor control with frequency converters promises a higher overall efficiency of the drive system while also reducing unwanted peak loads, according to the company. The Shredder Drive Assistant supports the machine driver in its daily work and ensures significant production increases while saving energy because of the more uniform use of the drive system.

Photo courtesy of ISS

ISS to install shredder in Mexico

Industrial Service Solutions (ISS), Houston, says it has contracted to install an advanced automobile shredding plant at a major recycling facility in Mexico.

The U.S.-built 7090 shredder will increase the customer’s ferrous metal recycling capacity in response to increased scrap metal demand in Latin America.

ISS will supply the shredder unit, 3,000-horsepower AC electric motor and variable-frequency drive from its Motors Center of Excellence in Houston, where engineering, integrated design and manufacturing are performed.

“Upgrading to the 7090 shredder will enable our client to both increase scrap shredding capacity and process heavier metals,” says Bill Tigner, vice president of Recycling Technologies at ISS. “The 70-inch diameter of the 7090 rotor will deliver 32 percent more hammer impact than the 6090 shredder unit it will replace. The 7090 shredder rotor is built with the same material thickness as our 80-inch mill, offering larger-format durability and performance in the footprint of the smaller current unit."