Installations

COUNT RECYCLING SYSTEMS

Count Recycling Systems, Des Moines, Iowa, has completed three McMRF 200 commingled recycling systems. Crown Disposal in McCook, Ill., added a McMRF to the company’s facility. V. Ponte & Sons, Jersey City, N.J., and Edwards Air Force Base also installed McMRFs.

Count also installed a McMRF 500 for Waste Management of Michigan-Detroit North in Southfield, Mich. This system includes a CAMMAG -- Count’s new style of air sort, an inline glass processing system that can be bypassed, and a chain belt baler feed conveyor. Throughput is 50 tons per eight hour shift of commin-gled curbside recyclables.

TEX-AMERICA

Tex-America, Charlotte, N.C., has installed a plastics washing system and a polymer separation system for Ozark Mountain Resins, Crystal City, Mo., a PET recycler which converts baled PET bottles to clean flake. The new systems, supplied by Reg-Mac SRL of Italy, allow Ozark to achieve 4,000 per hour of production.

HAWCO MANUFACTURING

Hawco Manufacturing Co., Slaughter, La., has designed and manufactured what the company says is the first electro-hydraulic railcar-unloading scrap grapple in the United States. The first model has been installed at the Gallatin Steel mill in Warsaw, Ky.

The railcar grapple, weighing 22,000 pounds and featuring a capacity of six cubic yards, was recently tested in New Orleans. The grapple is designed to be handled by an overhead crane where it will be fixed in the direction parallel with the railroad tracks so it will index over from railcar to railcar efficiently. The grapple's advantage is its ability to move greater volumes of scrap — it cannot, however, clean the bottom of a railcar.

HARRIS WASTE MANAGEMENT

Harris Waste Management Group Inc., Peachtree City, Ga., tested the first of three 2,200-ton automatic guillotine shears bound for Russia. Shear model BSH-30-2205, which will be used to destroy former Soviet nuclear submarines, was demonstrated before Russian shipyard engineers, U.S. government officials, the press and employees.

The original contract from the Defense Nuclear Agency specified that the shear must cut through four-inch thick steel plate (comparable to a submarine hull), and cut up to 50 tons in one hour.

The demonstration used five 10-ton steel plates, which the Harris BSH sheared in 42 minutes.