Equipment report

California’s Monterey area waste management authority selects BHS for multiline MRF

The Monterey Regional Waste Management District (MRWMD), Marina, California, has chosen Eugene, Oregon-based Bulk Handling Systems (BHS) to design, manufacture and install its new material recovery facility (MRF). The multiline system is scheduled to open in September 2016. It is expected to process more than 30 tons per hour (tph) of single-stream recyclables, 40 tph of mixed waste and 40 tph of construction and demolition (C&D) materials.

The MRWMD serves an 853-square-mile area and nine member agencies in western coastal Monterey County. In 2012, it opened the country’s first Smartferm dry anaerobic digestion (AD) facility to convert organics into electricity and compost.

“This MRF improvement project will position the district and its member agencies to achieve new levels of success in support of the district’s ‘turning waste into a resource’ mission for the next 20 years,” says district general manager Tim Flanagan.

Metso Recycling adds parts inventory

Metso Recycling, based in San Antonio, reports that it has added a large parts inventory for scrap shears and balers at its distribution center in Columbia, South Carolina, to better serve the company’s North American customers, helping to minimize downtime by supplying critical parts more quickly.

Bob Pfeffer, product manager for shears and balers with Metso Recycling, says, “For our customers in North America, this means shorter lead times, lower freight charges and less potential equipment downtime waiting for parts.”

Arto Halonen, vice president of sales and marketing for Metso Recycling, says, “We are investing in our sales and service support for scrap shears and balers to benefit our existing and future customer base. With the addition of Bob Pfeffer, product manager of shears and balers, Scott Holder, Southwest area sales manager, and Preston Hornsby, shear and baler technician, we are committed to being the preferred vendor of choice.”