INDUSTRIAL CAPITAL MANAGEMENT
Industrial Capital Management, Akron, Ohio, has installed a wire chopping line at Madison Metals, Madison, S.D., according to Jim Sedlacek, ICM president. The new line, Madison Metals’ second from ICM, allows the company to process more than 800,000 pounds per month of wire from industrial sources and utilities.
"We chose a wire chopping system from ICM because it allows us to process wire very economically," says Jeff Ross, president of Madison Metals.
SIERRA INTERNATIONAL MACHINERY
Sierra International Machinery, Bakersfield, Calif., has delivered and installed several Idromec 450 Ton Shear/Baler/Loggers, at Dan Jennings Co., Austin, Minn.; Ben Weitman & Son Inc., Oswego, N.Y.; and Frankfort Scrap Metal Co. Inc., Frankfort, Ky. In addition, Sierra installed an Idromec 700 Ton Shear/Baler/Logger at Carolina Scrap Processors, Anderson, S.C.; and an Idromec portable 4200 Baler/Logger with crane at K&L Scrap Services, Raleigh, N.C.
The Idromec Shear/Baler/Loggers are used to process P&S, HMS #1 and HMS #2, and to bale or log tin and appliances or bale #1 foundry bales. Production rates are from 10 to 16 tons per hour. The Idromec portable Baler/Logger with crane is used to bale or log tin, wire, car body parts, appliances or bale clips.
VAN DYK BALER
Van Dyk Baler Corp., Clifton, N.J., has made several new sales of Bollegraaf machinery. Weyerhauser Paper Co. has purchased a Bollegraaf Sorting System with HBC-100F baler and trommel for Jersey City, N.J., office paper processing facility.
Prins Recycling Corp., Ft. Lee, N.J., has purchased a Bollegraaf Commingled Sorting System with HBC-100AFK baler for its new division, Recycling Systems.
Mashburn Waste & Recycling Services, San Marcos, Calif., has purchased a Bollegraaf paper sorting system designed to process curbside materials as well as office-mix and high grade paper.
Weyerhauser Paper Co. has purchased a Bollegraaf HBC-100F Baler with extra-wide feed hopper for the company’s facility in Charlotte, N.C. The baler will process old corrugated cardboard and various high grades of paper. In addition, Weyerhauser purchased a Bollegraaf HBC-80 baler for another facility for delivery later in 1995.
MOSLEY MACHINERY
Mosley Machinery Co., Waco, Texas, a manufacturer of balers, densifiers and ferrous shears for the solid waste and recycling industries, has delivered an M-Series Densifier to E.J. Knight Scrap Material Co., Columbus, Ga. The new 30-horsepower Mosley Densifier processes up to 2,200 pounds per hour of aluminum cans and scrap into 25 pound biscuits.
HARRIS WASTE MGMT.
Harris Waste Management Group Inc., Peachtree City, Ga., a division of Amdura Corp., has been awarded a $2.16 million contract by the Defense Nuclear Agency to provide five model TCS metal balers, spare parts and training for the Russian Government under the Nunn-Lugar Program.
The award is the second for Harris under the Nunn-Lugar funds allocated for the destruction of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction in the former Soviet Union. The first award was for three Automatic Guillotine Baler-Shears, the first of which was delivered and installed in Russia in February.
The balers will be installed at four elimination sites in the former Soviet Union. The balers will process missile bodies, bomber fuselages and wing material made out of aluminum magesium alloy.
AGGLOREX N.V.
Agglorex N.V. of Lommel, Belgium, has improved the efficiency of its foam processing system through the installation of a Model 3400-H (200-horsepower) slow-speed, high-torque shredder manufactured by SSI shredding Systems Inc., Wilsonville, Ore.
The hydraulic shredder’s large infeed opening can accept and shred entire bales of foam, as well as loose scraps, saving time and effort in the material handling process. The regular slow-speed processing of the shredder delivers a controlled stream of consistently sized material to the downstream granulators, improving granulator efficiency and online reliability, lowering maintenance, and increasing throughput.
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