Equipment Report

SiCon Partners with SMS Siemag to Design and Market Shredding Plants
SMS Siemag AG, a division of the SMS Group, Düsseldorf, Germany, has signed a partnership agreement with SiCon GmbH, Hilchenbach, Germany, to jointly market SiCon’s scrap fragmentizing plants.

According to the two companies, the partnership will result in turnkey shredding plants with throughputs of up to 300 tons per hour.

SiCon specializes in processing and recovering scrap metal, plastic and electronic scrap as well as residues from the steel and paper industries, while SMS Siemag specializes in steel production plants.

SiCon’s Heiner Guschall says the partners plan to design and supply scrap processing and shredding plants that offer low energy consumption and high product quality to optimize metallurgy. They also plan to integrate the systems with steel operations to enhance scrap processing economy.

“We focus on a minimization of maintenance cost and a detailed performance recording,” Guschall says. “Furthermore, we focus on a minimization of the emissions. The system outperforms all national requirements which leads to a new environmental standard of scrap processing.”

SiCon already offers the Volkswagen-SiCon system for processing and recovering auto shredder residue (ASR). The new systems will include SiCon’s ASR-processing technology, based on the Volkswagen-SiCon process.

The scrap fragmentizing plants will be available globally, according to the companies.

More information on the plants is available at www.sicontechnology.com.
 

BACE Expands Manufacturing Operations
BACE (Baler and Compaction Equipment), a Charlotte, N.C.-based baler maker, has added 26,000 square feet of manufacturing space to support its growth.

Matt Hatfield, president of BACE, says the expansion was in response to strong year-over-year sales. “This additional space will support our global growth plans and is expected to generate significant manufacturing efficiencies by improving production capability, flexibility and flow of operations,” Hatfield says. “We believe this continued focus on our operating costs will allow BACE to further distinguish itself from the competition.”

Frederick Waite, chairman of BACE, adds, “With the addition of this space, our Charlotte facility has over 56,000 square feet of manufacturing space.”
 

SSI Shredding Opens Office in Switzerland
SSI Shredding Systems, Wilsonville, Ore., a designer and manufacturer of industrial shredders and compaction systems, has opened a new European sales support office in Lutry, Switzerland.

Dr. Pascal Gu¨beli, who was named SSI Shredding Systems’ European managing director, will head the new office.

SSI Shredding Systems says one of the main goals of its new office is to provide more efficient sales and communication support to the company’s clients throughout Europe and western Russia.

The company says it chose Gu¨beli for the position for his extensive senior-level expertise in industrial and environmental technologies, his educational background and his multilingual capabilities.
 

Rifkin Celebrates Shredder's 10th Anniversary
A shredder designed and built by American Pulverizer Co., St. Louis, has marked its 10th anniversary on the job at Rifkin Scrap Iron & Metal in Saginaw, Mich.

According to American Pulverizer, Larry and David Rifkin bought the first-of-its-kind 60x85 automobile and scrap shredding system in 2001. “The success of that system has led to more than two dozen 60x85 systems worldwide,” American Pulverizer states in a news release.

David Rifkin says the shredding system “routinely” processes more than 4,500 tons per month of miscellaneous scrap as well as an additional 1,500 tons per month of logged and baled materials. He says references to the 60x85 model being a “light-duty” shredder are inaccurate and that Rifkin Iron & Metal has pushed production levels of its machine “far beyond all expectations.”

Rifkin Iron & Metal also has worked with Wendt Corp.to help it install an upgraded downstream sorting system.
 

Wendt Corp. Acquires Facility Near Buffalo, N.Y.
Wendt Corp., headquartered in Tonawanda, N.Y., has acquired an additional facility near Buffalo, N.Y. The 149,000-square-foot facility will house all of Wendt’s manufacturing functions that are used to build the company’s automobile shredders and nonferrous metals separation plants.

Wendt says additional floor space and increased overhead crane capacity are required to support the volume and scale of its manufacturing activities.

Wendt adds that the increased capacity will allow it to handle all of its current manufacturing and provide additional internal capacity for manufacturing functions that are currently subcontracted outside of the Western New York region.

“Due to the performance of our automobile shredding and nonferrous separation plants, we have experienced significant growth,” says President Tom Wendt.
 

International Baler Adds UK Dealer
International Baler Corp. (IBC), based in Jacksonville, Fla., has added a dealer in the United Kingdom. Randy Gibson, director of sales and marketing for IBC, says Freedmans will be the company’s dealer in the United Kingdom.

“Freedmans offers many years of industry knowledge, service capability and the willingness to take care of the customer—the exact same philosophy adhered to by International Baler,” Gibson says.

“Robert Freedman has hit the ground running for us and is already helping recyclers in the U.K. becoming better equipped to process their materials,” he says of the company’s managing director.

IBC offers more than 200 baler configurations for customers to choose from. The company invites customers in the U.K. to contact Freedmans for their recycling equipment needs.

More information on IBC’s product line is available at www.intl-baler.com.
 

Big Truck Rental Taps Heil as Nationwide Supplier of Refuse Fleet
Big Truck Rental, a Tampa, Fla.-based truck rental company serving the solid waste industry, has chosen Heil Environmental, based in Chattanooga, Tenn., as the single provider for its nationwide fleet of refuse rental equipment.

According to Big Truck, renting is an option for many haulers, especially municipalities, that allows the addition of new collection contracts or additional routes without the upfront investment of purchasing new equipment.

Heil manufactures a range of refuse collection bodies. The company’s product line includes front loaders, rear loaders, side loaders, multi-compartment vehicles and equipment for roll-off containers. The company is a part of Environmental Solutions Group (ESG).

According to Randy Brown, vice president of sales and marketing for Heil’s Environmental Solutions Group, the rental market segment for refuse equipment is underserved and growing.

“We are pleased and proud that Big Truck Rental has chosen Heil refuse collection vehicles for their rental offering. We work closely with our customers to engineer products that meet their specific needs. We are confident that our front loaders, rear loaders, automated side loaders and roll-off units will deliver the productivity and performance that rental customers demand.”

“We are very excited about transitioning our fleet to Heil products,” says Robert Mecchi, Big Truck Rental vice president of business development. “The Heil brand is well-known and respected in the industry, and the company has built strong relationships within the public, private and municipal market segments.”