Installations

INTERNATIONAL PRESS AND SHEAR CORP.

International Press & Shear Corp. (IPS), Baxley, Ga., recently installed a two-ram Model TR1270-75 baler at Columbia Metals Recycling in Lexington, Ky.

The baler features a 12” main cylinder and can process material at rates as high as 11 tons per hour. The model features a bale door relief system and a phone modem that can be used to provide unit diagnostics and maintenance. “We handle a good deal of nonferrous through this facility—about a million pounds a month,” says Stuart Miller, general manager of Columbia metals Recycling. “That includes UBC, aluminum extrusions, aluminum sheet, copper and aluminum radiators, copper wire and others. We need a way to increase both the quality and quantity of our prepared scrap without upping our manpower. We have definitely gotten that with this new baler. We have virtually doubled our volume while keeping the same manpower.”

WENDT CORPORATION

Two EddySort Systems made by Wendt Corporation, Tonawanda, N.Y., have recently been installed. One EddySort System has been installed at Bakermet Corporation in Ottawa, Canada while the other is up and running at the Ben Weitsman & Son facility in Owego, New York. The EddySort Systems are designed to recover nonferrous metals from automobile shredder fluff and to upgrade nonferrous metal residues in order to maximize shredder operating margins.

SSI SHREDDING SYSTEMS INC.

SSI Shredding Systems Inc., Wilsonville, Ore., has been selected as a major supplier to one of the largest organic hazardous waste facilities in Europe. The company will be providing a substantial part of the mechanical processing equipment for a $50 million facility in Brevik, Norway that will have the capacity to process all hazardous waste in Norway. SSI designs and builds high-torque, low-speed shredders, specializing in systems for hazardous waste applications.

MARATHON EQUIPMENT CO.

Coca-Cola’s Southwest Distribution center in San Antonio, Texas, has added a Rotary Recycler manufactured by Marathon Equipment Co., Vernon, Ala. The machine is being used both for aluminum used beverage cans and plastic containers. The Rotary proved ideal for enough applications that Coca-Cola is now using two of them at the San Antonio center. Both empty and full containers are processed through the Rotary Recycler. Robert Paz of the Southwest Distribution center reports that the Rotary has been so successful at processing all containers that the center had to double-check its, new smaller hauling bill to make sure it was correct.

APEX WELDING INC.

Apex Welding Inc., Cleveland, has opened a new central Florida distribution center. The center is located near I-75 in the Sarasota/Brad-enton area. Apex has stocked the center with several sizes of its self-dumping lift truck hoppers. The center will allow Apex to offer next-day delivery of its products to most of Florida and several other states. “The po-tential of this expansion is tremendous and exciting as we continue to grow,” says Apex general manager Gary Warner.

VIBRA SCREW INC.

Owens-Corning Fiberglas, Toledo, Ohio, has purchased 26 bulk material handling units from Vibra Screw Inc., Totowa, N.J. The units are being shipped for use at an Owens-Corning facility in Bombay, India. The equipment—which includes bulk bag unloaders and bin activators—will help control the flow of materials in a system feeding mixers and blenders that are upstream from several glass furnaces.

J. McINTYRE MACHINERY LTD

J. McIntyre Machinery Ltd., Nottingham, England, has installed demonstration dross cooling equipment at its foundry in Nottingham. The Tardis 1062 machine has been designed by hydraulic equipment experts for high-volume aluminum melters with low furnace sill heights. McIntyre has designed the Tardis 1062 with a new head and pot design that will cool dross more rapidly, ideally maximizing metal recovery from dross.

HI-RISE RECYCLING SYSTEMS INC.

Hi-Rise Recycling Systems, Miami, Fla., will be installing its patented recycling and waste disposal system in a luxury apartment building being renovated in the Tribeca section of New York City. The company signed a $260,000 contract to install a system at a 13-floor building being renovated on North Moore Street in Manhattan. The Hi-Rise system will allow residents to discard glass, metal, newspapers, plastics, and mixed paper as well as trash through a chute system that will extend to each residential unit. The system allows residents to recycle without stepping outside their doors. A series of buttons in each apartment allows them to send recyclable commodities or trash to the appropriate bin in the basement of the building.