Equipment report

Eddie’s Welding Equipment relocates and expands

Eddie’s Welding Equipment has recently purchased a building in the Houston area to which it has relocated its headquarters. The company, which markets torches, torching supplies, hoses, safety glasses and other equipment for the scrap metal and demolition industries, says it has seen a significant increase in its business over the past several years, which has allowed it to expand.

Previously, Eddie’s Welding operated from leased property. The new building has doubled the space available to the company.

Eddie Grosman, president of family-owned company, says Eddie’s Welding Equipment has focused aggressively on the scrap metal and demolition sectors. He estimates his company supplies equipment and services to 1,800 companies in these two sectors, almost all of them in the U.S.

Grosman attributes the company’s strong increase in sales to knowing its products.

Additionally, Grosman says, the company carries a large inventory, which allows it to ship orders quickly to its customers.

With the move to a larger building, Eddie’s Welding also has expanded the types of equipment it offers. “With the new building we have added 25 new items,” Grosman says. The company also can stock 8-foot torches, something many other suppliers don’t keep on hand, he adds.

The three-generation family business stocks more than 400 long torches and more than 2,000 welding and cutting tips, shipping out most orders on the same day.

The company can be reached at 877-428-6724 Mondays through Fridays from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Central time.

IMS Group rebrands as CP Global

San Diego-based CP Global, the umbrella brand of the CP Group (CP Manufacturing, Krause Manufacturing, MSS and Advanced MRF), IMS Electronics, IMS Recycling and Handy Metal Mart, has debuted a new name and logo.

Formerly known as IMS Group, CP Global companies are involved in various recycling and waste management industries.

“We chose to integrate CP into our new and modernized corporate umbrella brand,” says Ashley Davis, marketing manager for CP Global. “Thanks to the success of CP Manufacturing and the CP Group of companies, CP’s brand has international name recognition, competitive market share and a truly global customer base. We are leveraging CP’s brand recognition with this change, as it is our largest and most well-known entity.”

The companies that comprise CP Global have served the market for nearly 60 years. IMS Recycling, founded by Charles Davis in 1954, is the oldest company under the CP Global brand. Davis went on to found Handy Metal Mart in 1964 and CP Manufacturing in 1977. In 1999, IMS Electronics Recycling was formed to process electronic scrap.

In 2003, CP Manufacturing acquired MSS, leading to the creation of CP Group, which acquired Krause Manufacturing in 2004, IPS Balers in 2007 (which Avis Industries acquired in August 2014, opening the door for CP Group to become an international distributor for its baler lines) and Advanced MRF in 2012.

“As the industry continues to evolve, so do we,” says Bob Davis, CEO of CP Global. “Being a leader in the recycling industry requires teamwork, planning and careful strategy. Our companies operate with a synergy that enables us to work seamlessly together, achieving more than the sum of our parts. The CP Global brand emphasizes this unity.”

Vecoplan opens technology center in Germany

Vecoplan AG has opened a technology and development center at its headquarters in Bad Marienberg, Germany. The company says the 17,000-square-foot facility is equipped with more than 25 machines representing a comprehensive range of mechanical technologies for the processing, recycling or repurposing of waste and biomass. Vecoplan celebrated the grand opening Aug. 5, with some 350 industrial, political and media leaders from the international environmental industry in attendance.

Vecoplan says its centrally located technology center is equipped to cover the company’s entire chain of processes in-house, accelerating development time and allowing for efficient test times. At the facility, processors can conduct tests on their specific materials across customized systems incorporating the necessary technologies, according to the company.

“I’m impressed by Vecoplan’s new technology center and the ability to do real-world testing on my material is what interests me the most,” said Enrico Siewert, president of the St. Louis plastics recycling company Re-Poly.

Machines operating in the new center include various types of size reduction plants; conveying and diverting lines; screening and vibratory equipment; magnetic separators; nonferrous separation plants; air separation systems; optical sorters; plastics washing equipment; dust collection and a super-sack filling station.

“Vecoplan continues to make significant advances in process engineering, material classification, sorting innovations and washing technologies, to once again raise the bar in our industry,” says Werner Berens, CEO of Vecoplan AG.

As part of the grand opening, Vecoplan highlighted its HydroDyn washing method for heavily soiled plastics.

SGM touts ASR fines recovery system

Separation technology and equipment firm SGM Magnetics, with a U.S. office in Bradenton, Florida, is marketing a Micro Fines Plant (MFP) that recovers metal “fines and extra fines” from the auto shredder residue (ASR) stream.

SGM Managing Director Didier Haegelsteen says the MFP features a proprietary process developed after years of operating experience in processing ASR fines. The MFP was researched and designed in collaboration with inventor Thomas Valerio of TAV Holdings Inc., Atlanta.

The company says, based on August 2014 metals prices, the MFP typically results in recovering an additional $85 to $120 of metal value per ton of ASR fines (three-quarters-inch minus) processed with metals recovered that are less than 1 millimeter (0.04 inches) in size.

“The benefit to consider is not only the value of the metals recovered but also the limited amount of operators needed to run and maintain the MFP,” Haegelsteen says. He explains that the plant offers a reduced footprint of less than 20,000 square feet for a 20-to 25-tons-per-hour system.

According to Haegelsteen, the markets for these fine metals (mainly copper and brass) includes entities in the U.S., Europe and throughout Asia.

SGM says the MFP can be sold directly to customers or can be obtained on a partnership basis where SGM operates the MFP for a given time.

The MFP has been in place throughout much of 2014 at the PSC Metals yard in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

“Combining an MFP with a traditional residue plant that only processes ASR residue over three-quarters inch represents a true revolutionary approach to the ASR industry,” Haegelsteen says. “The MFP optimizes metal recovery opportunities in fines and extra fines in ASR that are often underused. In addition, it also allows the operator’s existing (or new) residue plant to optimize performance by taking the fines out.”