Equipment report

Eriez offers electromagnetic drum repair service

Eriez, based in Erie, Pennsylvania, is offering repair services for permanent and electromagnetic scrap drums. According to research conducted by Eriez, customers opting to repair their scrap drums can save up to 60 percent compared with the cost of purchasing new equipment.

Through its 5-Star Service Center, the company says it will repair both Eriez’s and competitors’ models to what it calls peak performance standards. Additionally, the company will back up all its work with “as new” warranties.

Typical scrap drum repair projects include performing a visual inspection of the shell, wiper, hub, shaft end and bearings; upgrading the magnetic element and replacing the shell (if necessary); and removing and replacing the coil on electromagnetic drums. When repairs are completed, the equipment is tested and shipped back to the customer.

Eriez’s 5-Star Service Center, located in Erie, offers welding, fabricating and machining resources. The service team also offers on-site repair services, even on short notice, the company says.

Eriez 5-Star Service covers a broad assortment of equipment, including magnetic separators, feeders, conveyors, screeners and classifiers, metal detectors, eddy current separators, lifting magnets and other processing parts.

More information can be found at http://eriez.com/service.

Avis Industrial acquires IPS Balers

Upland, Indiana-based Avis Industrial Corp., a privately held company with 10 subsidiaries throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico, has acquired IPS Balers Inc., Baxley, Georgia, from the CP Group, based in San Diego.

IPS Balers is a manufacturer of ferrous, nonferrous, plastics and mixed fiber balers and has been serving the recycling industry for nearly two decades. Since 2008, IPS was a part of the CP Group of Cos., an international manufacturer of material recovery facilities and equipment, including disc screens, trommels, optical sorters and other material separation and recovery equipment.

With this acquisition, IPS becomes the third baler company owned by Avis Industrial, joining American Baler Co. and Harris Waste Management Group Inc.

Avis Industrial’s subsidiaries manufacture and sell shears, shredders and compactors, among other products, to the recycling industry.

“We are pleased to add IPS to our baler manufacturing companies,” says Leland Boren, chairman and CEO of Avis Industrial. “The features that are exclusive to IPS machines, including the precompression lids, hinge sides and bale-tie two rams, are innovative and allow us to meet the requirements of even more customers in the recycling industry.”

In conjunction with this sale, Avis Industrial has named CP a strategic international distributor, authorizing the company to sell all of the Avis baler lines.

CP President Terry Schneider says, “Six years ago, CP acquired IPS to offer customers a complete package to our sort systems. Now, as a distributor for Avis, we will be able to offer our customers even more baler solutions. CP looks forward to a long and mutually beneficial business relationship with Avis.”

The CP Group of Cos. engineers, manufactures and installs material recovery facilities (MRFs) for a variety of sectors. The company designs, installs and services custom turnkey systems for residential recycling, commercial and industrial, municipal solid waste, engineered fuel, construction and demolition and electronic scrap processing. CP Manufacturing, Krause Manufacturing, MSS and Advanced MRF comprise The CP Group.

Avis says it will have direct access to CP sorting systems, including disc screens and optical sorters, among other MRF equipment components.

Boren says, “We are excited about future opportunities with CP, leveraging their MRF equipment and design solutions within our network.”

Avis Industrial is the parent company of the following wholly owned subsidiaries:

• AI International, Louisville, Kentucky;
• American Baler Co., Bellevue, Ohio;
• Crankshaft Machine Co., Jackson, Michigan;
• CUMSA Corp., Matamoros, Mexico;
• Edgerton Forge Inc., Edgerton, Ohio;
• Harris Waste Management Group Inc., with locations in Cordele and Baxley, Georgia; San Antonio and Wiltshire, United Kingdom;
• James Steel & Tube Co., Madison Heights, Michigan;
• Pacific Forge Inc., Fontana, California;
• Peninsular Cylinder Co. Inc., Roseville, Michigan; and
• Sellick Equipment, Harrow, Ontario.
   

More information is available at www.avisindustrial.com and at www.ipsbalers.com.