Wendt Says its CombiSense is Ideal in Soaring Copper Market

Wendt Corp., an equipment manufacturer based in Tonawanda, N.Y., says the TiTech CombiSense unit that it offers is ideal in the current environment, where copper pricing has reached record-high pricing levels of $10,000 per metric ton on the London Metal Exchange and other trading floors.

In a news release issued by Wendt, the company describes the CombiSense as “a high-production separation machine used in sorting different types of shredded nonferrous feedstock to produce high-purity metal fractions.”

The CombiSense uses a combination of sensor technology and advanced high-resolution cameras to separate material by color, shape, size, conductivity and brightness.

Various materials can be targeted and separated, according to Wendt, including brass, zinc, stainless steel, circuit boards, coins and, most importantly, copper.”

Wendt Corp. customer Bobby Helbein of Southern Metals Co., Charlotte, N.C., contacted Wendt about the CombiSense in 2007. “We tried to pick as much copper and brass as we could, but there is no way you can hand pick as well as this machine can find it,” says Helbein.

According to Wendt, Helbein has configured his CombiSense to separate zinc, stainless steel, brass and copper. He says he has improved “from a 40 percent sort to almost 100 percent” in extracting those commodities.

More information on the CombiSense and other equipment offered by Wendt can be found by visiting www.wendtcorp.com.