Equipment Report

Genesis Signs Dealer Agreement with SMS
Genesis Attachments, a Superior, Wis.-based attachment manufacturer for the recycling and demolition industries, has announced that it has reached a dealer agreement with SMS Equipment’s Acheson, Alberta-based Western regional office. According to the company, the agreement means that Genesis Attachments will now be available in “virtually every province across Canada.”

“We are extremely pleased to be able to offer our customers the Genesis line,” says Lindon Petty Sr., SMS’ corporate realignment facilitator. “As a company, we are service-oriented and our success is built upon strong customer relationships. That philosophy is what steered us toward Genesis.

“In our search for a potential supplier, we found that they had long-term customers here in Canada; that spoke well for them as a company,” Petty continues. “In addition, our colleagues in the Eastern regional office have enjoyed a good deal of success offering the Genesis line of attachments, so we are excited to bring them to our customers out West.”

The Western regional office of SMS Equipment currently has more than 1,200 employees working out of 24 locations. All branches west of Thunder Bay, Ontario—as well as a number of locations in the northern territories—come under the umbrella of the Western region, according to the news release.

BHS Signs biogas system agreement
Bulk Handling Systems (BHS), Eugene, Ore., a leading manufacturer of recycling processing equipment, has signed an exclusive licensing agreement with the Germany-based Eggersmann Anlagenbau to design and build high solids biogas facilities in North America using the Kompoferm system.

The Kompoferm system uses a dry fermentation anaerobic digestion process to create energy from organic waste. BHS bills the system as “highly efficient, with low investment costs and high biogas yields.”

“The Kompoferm system is the leading technology of its type in the world and enables BHS to provide its customers with systems that extract high-value recyclable materials from the waste stream, to make these systems energy neutral and to provide additional renewable power to the communities where the waste is generated,” says Steve Miller, president of BHS.

Several biogas plants in Europe have used the Kompoferm process with success, Miller says, adding that while there are biogas plants operating in North America, the standard technology currently used is not as advanced or efficient as the Kompoferm system.

 Miller says several projects using the Kompoferm system are in the planning stages in the United States.