Equipment report

Minnesota recycler installs single-stream system

Dem-Con Cos., Shakopee, Minnesota, has worked with San Diego-based CP Group to custom design and install a 20-ton-per-hour single-stream material recovery facility (MRF) at its headquarters.

The MRF, which began operating in November 2013, is housed in a new 60,000-square-foot building and can process 275 tons of recyclables per day. It serves the Minneapolis/St. Paul area as well as greater Minnesota.

The MRF includes the latest in recycling equipment technology from the CP Group. The screening technology separates fibers from containers, and the MSS Aladdin optical sorter separates plastics, the CP Group says. The MRF also contains a two-ram baler for multi- material baling and the Conquest for fiber baling from IPS Balers.

Howard Fiedler, CP Group sales engineer, says, “The Dem-Con team is a highly progressive group and is clearly becoming one of the leading vertically integrated recyclers in the Midwest as evidenced by their single-stream/commercial recycling as well as by their construction and demolition recycling operations.”

The CP Group engineers, makes and installs single-stream, construction and demolition, municipal solid waste, commercial and industrial and e-scrap recycling systems as well as front-end waste-to-energy systems.

Redwave opens US sales office

Redwave, an Austria-based supplier of sensor-based sorting equipment and turnkey sorting systems, has created a new subsidiary in North America. The company, Redwave Solutions US, has offices in Minnesota, Georgia and New York. Redwave Solutions US will concentrate on system design, machine and system sales, installation and parts and service within the recycling sector.

“With over 150 machines [installed] in North America, it was time to have a local presence and better support in the North American market,” says Silvia Fuchs, general manager of Redwave’s European headquarters. “We will continue to support our existing customer base with parts and service and offer faster response times for drawings and proposals.”

Jeffrey van Galder, Christopher Simon and Ulrich Schulte will manage Redwave Solutions US. Van Galder and Simon, each of whom has 16 years of experience in supplying recycling equipment to the industry, will be responsible for sales, while Schulte will be responsible for general management and strategy. He previously worked for Vecoplan AG as a general manager in Germany.

“We work very closely with the headquarters in Austria, and our business model is such that we will eventually be able to provide our own service and engineering in North America,” Schulte says. “Currently in the U.S. there is a sales organization that is very experienced in this industry and the equipment that we offer and works with the full support of the North American and Austrian infrastructure.”

BT-Wolfgang, Redwave’s parent company, says the time is right to capitalize on growing demand in the United States. The U.S. office is expected to allow the company to more quickly respond to sales inquiries, the company says.

“Our reason for starting this company was to form a company, based in the United States, to replicate and build on the success that Redwave has already established in North America with the glass plants and the sorters that we have sold for Redwave into our MRF applications for sorting plastic and paper,” van Galder says. “This new company will build on these previous successes while also being able to support past customers in a more local manner.”

Redwave’s sensor-based sorting technology ranges from single sorting machines to complete turnkey plants. The company’s equipment is designed to sort plastics, paper, glass, electronic scrap and metal.

Schulte says,“We will focus mainly on customers who are looking for custom sorting solutions for commingled materials. We will provide equipment that is best suited for recycling, MSW (municipal solid waste) and a wide range of materials, including glass, paper plastics, wood, metal, e-waste and minerals, requiring separation and sorting. Our audience will be people in the field who are interested in a excellent industrial design, combined with high performance and quality recovery of high-value, desirable materials.”

He continues, “In addition to supplying custom sorting solutions for a wide range of industries, single-stream sorting plants are likely to be the basis for the genesis of our business. We will also be supplying retrofit solutions to older systems that lack some of the technologies that we can offer. We will likely be adding sensor based sorters, bag openers, drum feeders and screens to systems that are lacking such or simply need to be upgraded.”

Recology CleanScapes opens new MRF

CleanScapes, a subsidiary of Recology, headquartered in San Francisco, has opened a 75,000-square-foot material recovery facility (MRF) in South Seattle. The facility will process commercial and residential commingled recyclables.

Bulk Handling Systems (BHS), based in Eugene, Oregon, designed, manufactured and installed the processing system, which is capable of handling more than 90,000 tons of recyclables per year. The MRF includes a range of equipment from BHS, including screening systems and air and optical devices.

“We are very proud to introduce this state-of-the-art facility to expand recycling capacity in the Pacific Northwest,” says Dan Bridges, general manager of Recology CleanScapes. “This facility will play an important role in helping the region meet its environmental goals.”

Recology CleanScapes collects solid waste and recycling in the Washington cities of Seattle, Shoreline, Des Moines, Issaquah and Carnation. Service for Burien, Tacoma and Maple Valley, Washington, will begin later in 2014, CleanScapes says.

Granutech shredders assist military recycling efforts overseas

Granutech-Saturn Systems, Grand Prairie, Texas, a manufacturer of industrial and mobile shredders and other recycling equipment, has sold three mobile shredders to the U.S. military through the Defense Logistics Agency, Fort Belvoir, Virginia. The dual-shaft Saturn shredders have recently been deployed and will be used on military bases in locations that include Okinawa, Guam and Hawaii.

“The military has over 10 of our mobile shredders so far, and we are pleased to be able to continue to meet the needs for recycling on U.S. bases around the world,” says Matt Morrison, vice president, Granutech-Saturn Systems.

The Saturn dual-shaft mobile shredder uses a diesel/hydraulic drive system and will be used to decommission a wide variety of materials present on military bases.

Granutech says it had to innovate to meet specific military goals for weight, size, portability and throughput capacity while also meeting Tier 4 emissions requirements.