Installations

American Pulverizer

American Pulverizer Co., St. Louis, has sold a new Two-Stage Ferrous Shredding System to R. Freedman & Son Inc., Green Island, N.Y. The 1,500-horsepower machine will have a pre-ripper and will be able to shred both log bales and light iron. The system incorporates Hustler Conveyor Co. infeed and take-away conveyors. Delivery is scheduled for May and June.

Newell Industries

Newell Industries Inc., San Antonio, Texas, has installed a 3,500 horsepower Newell Super Heavy Duty Model 98104 SHD shredder at Royal Green, a 32-acre scrap processing facility in Ontalaunee Township, a suburb of Reading, Pa. The shredder replaces an existing Newell shredder and acts in support of yet another Newell unit, according to Julius Simon, chairman emeritus of Royal Green. The scrap yard processes a wide range of ferrous metals, including all grades of No. 2 scrap, some grades of No. 4 scrap, automobile scrap and some light iron.

Lindemann Recycling Equipment Inc.Each month for the first six months of 1997, an American-made 1,000-ton LU-800-10 PA 75 hydraulic scrap shear from Lindemann Recycling Equipment Inc., Charlotte, N.C., is scheduled to start up, in what the company says is the longest succession of start-ups in the company’s history.

The shears, all sold in 1996, started up at Niles Iron & Metal, Niles, Ohio, in January; at J. Trockman & Sons, Evansville, Ind., in February; at H. Bixon & Sons, New Haven, Conn., in March; and at Lee Iron and Metal, Sanford, N.C., in April. This month, one will start operations at EMCO Recycling, Phoenix, and in June, the sixth will start up at ACERO of San Luis, Mexico.

Wendt Corp.

Wendt Corp., Tonawanda, N.Y., has sold an EddySort Screening SuperEddy nonferrous recovery and grading system to Ben Weitsman & Son, Oswego, N.Y. The unit mines virtually all nonferrous metal from automobile shredder fluff while "scalping" high grade aluminum into a separate flow, according to the company. It also separates ferrous fines, low magnetic ferrous alloys and certain stainless steels.

En-Core Systems

The state of New Mexico has awarded En-Core Systems, Grand Rapids, Minn., a contract to provide the state with 10 portable scrap tire balers to bale the estimated 1 million illegally dumped tires in the state for later use in civil engineering projects. The equipment produces a finished bale that measures 3 feet by 4 feet by 5 feet, and weighs about a ton. Each bale contains the equivalent of about 100 whole tires from passenger cars and light trucks.

Harris Waste Management Group

Miami Waste, Miami, Fla., has purchased three new HRB 1035 balers from Harris Waste Management Group Inc., Peachtree City, Ga. This is the third generation of HRB two-ram balers Roy Kopstein, the founder of Miami Waste, has purchased to enable the company to process old corrugated cardboard, old newsprint and used beverage containers.

"The OCC bales produced by the HRB balers are uniform in size and weight, which provides superior stacking capabilities and cube efficient transportation," according to Kopstein. "The high-density bales also reduce transportation costs and do not break in shipping."

Crigler Enterprises Inc., Atlanta, a Harris distributor, sold and installed the units for Miami Waste.

MSS International

Reko B.V. – one of the largest plastics recyclers in Europe – has purchased an MSS VYDAR automated plastic polyvinyl chloride flake removal system for installation in PET recycling facility in Geleen, Holland, from MSS International Inc., Nashville, Tenn. The model VY-384 #DD six-channel unit includes three special high density separation channels that provide the polyethylene terephthalate purity levels required by Reko, and has a capacity between 1,200 and 1,850 kilograms per hour, depending on the flake size and the density distribution of the feed stream. MSS International is the international sales subsidiary of MSS Inc., Nashville, Tenn.

Alan Ross Machinery

The Monroe County Department of Environmental Services, Rochester, N.Y., has awarded Alan Ross Machinery Corp., Northbrook, Ill., the right to liquidate equipment from the Monroe County Resource Recovery Facility. Based on current market conditions, the equipment – four Newell auto shredders, three smaller Newell hammermills, a two-ram baler and a number of conveyors, separation systems and dust collectors – are said to carry a combined value of more than $1.5 million.

Countec Recycling

Countec Recycling Systems, Des Moines, Iowa, has completed a material recovery facility for FCR Inc., Memphis, Tenn. The facility includes a custom McMRF 500 Commingled Container Sort System with "Steady Eddy" eddy current separator, a glass processing system, a fiber line system, and a baler feed conveyor.

May 1997
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