Steinert US - Easy Decision

Like any business owner, Lenny Siesco Sr. is on the lookout for reliable employees who put in a solid effort day in and day out and week after week.

For more than six years, Siesco has been able to rely on exactly that type of performance from his company’s Steinert NES 150 5009 eddy current unit.

According to Siesco, owner of Magnetic Research & Recycling, Belgium, Wis., the 60-inch eddy current machine offers sturdiness and reliability combined with engineering innovation that makes the machine uniquely qualified to get the job done.

In addition to offering words of praise, Siesco has been able to pay the ultimate compliment to Steinert by purchasing an identical unit for his new, second production line that he will soon be installing.

"We’re so happy with the Steinert for one reason: because it’s so trouble-free," says Siesco. "The Steinert belt life is phenomenal, and the drum life is even more incredible." After more than six years of service working 50 to 55 hours per week, Siesco says of his 60-inch Steinert eddy current, "We’re still on the original shell and we change belts just once per year—and that’s for preventive maintenance aspects instead of any measurable reduction in performance."

The design of the Steinert 60-inch eddy current also draws praise from Siesco. "With the unique eccentric design, instead of the concentric design of other brands, if a piece of iron that was missed hits the unit, it moves along rather than staying on the belt and burning a hole through the belt." He continues, "With the concentric design, there is only a small area where the material has its chance to be kicked away by the eddy current—the rest of the circumference is useless. But the way Steinert designed its eddy currents, the magnetic assembly sits offset in a larger drum that creates a larger effective area."

Siesco is also happy with the machine’s splitter that allows him to produce both zorba and aluminum long-
throw in the same pass, as well as the lever that allows him to adjust the position of the magnet depending on the size of the material he is running through.

Magnetic Research & Recycling has used its Steinert eddy current as part of a system that allows it to extract metal from a variety of residues and materials, including auto shredder residue (ASR), post-solid-waste-incinerator ash and top layers of dirt from unpaved scrap yards.

The second Steinert unit will be deployed in a new production line that Siesco is targeting toward post-shredder residue produced by electronic scrap recycling and wire chopping operations.

"As this company grows, I’m certain that I’d buy yet another Steinert," says Siesco. "The people at Steinert really work with you, and to have a unit that runs flawlessly for six years, well, you’re not going to do any better than that."