Sold! May 2006

* Steinert

PSC Metals Inc. of Mayfield Heights, Ohio, USA, has completed significant equipment purchases in recent months. Its site at Beaver Falls in Pennsylvania has seen the installation of an ISS 240 400 SU Selective Sensor Induction Sorting System from Steinert US of St Petersburg in Florida. The company will use the unit in the automatic removal of stainless steel and non-ferrous metals from its auto shredder residue. The 96-inch wide unit uses sophisticated induction sensors and high-speed air ejectors to recover more than 99% of metals in the residue stream, according to Steinert.
In addition, PSC Metals’ site at Canton, Ohio, has added downstream solutions for its ferrous and non-ferrous scrap operations to enhance the quality, density and cleanliness of its finished product. The ferrous downstream system consists of two 60-inch by 84-inch Steinert axial-pole magnets, a 72-inch wide Z box, and dual 60-inch wide picking conveyors.

* LSI Electronics

Albuquerque Iron & Metal in the USA has purchased an LSI Model MST 1600-S-SS airless metal sorting machine from Henry A. Wiltschek Inc. of Stoney Creek, Ontario, Canada, the North American distributor for German manufacturer LSI Electronics. The unit, which recovers metal from shredder residue, includes a secondary mounted metal sorting machine designed to eliminate the need to send a load of non-ferrous material through the machine a second time to recover stainless steel.

* Thermo Electron

Arcelor Dunkirk of France, which produces flat carbon steel, long carbon steel and stainless steel, has selected the ARL 4460 optical emission spectrometer from Thermo Electron Corp. of Waltham, Massachusetts, USA, as part of its steelworks modernisation programme. Arcelor Dunkirk’€™s goal is to increase production capacity from 6.7 million tonnes to 7.2 million tones by 2010.
The ARL 4460’€™s automatic sample preparation and analysis capabilities will permit an increase in productivity and shorter response times while keeping steel quality within the strict specifications Arcelor’€™s customers require, it is claimed. The facility expects to conduct some 700 analyses a day, seven days a week – equivalent to more than 250 000 analyses a year.