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* US Shredder and Castings Group
The US Shredder and Castings Group of Brookhaven, Mississippi,
USA, will provide shredder system upgrades to the Rocky Mount facility
of Shredded Products LLC in Virginia, a subsidiary of Steel Dynamics
Inc. In the project’s first phase, the company will install a stand-alone
non-ferrous system featuring three Steinert eddy current systems and an
ISS system. The second phase will upgrade the shredder with: a WEG
4000 HP motor; a US Shredder control and management system; a water
injection system; a new control housing with an operator station; and a
new ferrous downstream system.
www.usshredder.com
* Wendt Corp.
Wendt Corp. of Tonawanda, New York, USA, will provide a Metal
Finder 1200 system for the newly-opened American Electronics Recycling
scrap processing facility at Sarasota, Florida. The equipment uses
CommoDas sensor sorting technology and fully-adjustable sensitivity to
separate the plastics fraction and produce a clean, mixed-metals product.
Wendt has also sold a Wendt Finder 2400 to the Commercial Metals
Co. site at Jacksonville, Florida. The company says the equipment will
complement eddy-current separation to increase non-ferrous recovery,
picking up metals such as stainless steel and copper windings, as well as
insulated and bare copper wire.
www.wendtcorp.com
Sold!
In response to increasing demand
for machinery used in the produc-
tion of substitute fuels, German
company WEIMA Maschinenbau
has set up an independent company
called WEIMA Energy whose pro-
duction facilities are located in Groß
Naundorf in Germany.
WEIMA Energy is specialising in
the rapidly-growing refuse-derived
fuel shredding technology market.
The wider WEIMA Group builds size
reduction equipment for the plastics,
wood and recycling industries,
including single-shaft shredders,
two- and four-shaft shredders,
grinders, granulators, briquetting
machines, complete systems and
auxiliary equipment.
www.weima-energy.com
WEIMA Energy dedicated
to substitute fuels
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European tyre recovery
rate motors upwards
According to latest figures from the European tyre and rubber manufac-
turers’ association ETRMA, tyre recovery rates in Europe jumped by three
percentage points to 78% last year. The figures show that increased material
recycling was mainly responsible for this improvement, accounting for more
than 34% of all treated waste. Incineration with energy recovery (32%) and
retreading (12%) made up the remainder.
According to ETRMA, this is a signal that the slowly-maturing market
for end-of-life derived products is ‘sustainable and economically viable’.
For more information, visit:
https://www.etrma.org/pdf/ETRMA_Press_ release_ELTs_2006_recovery_
rate_July_07.pdf or https://www.etrma.org/pdf/Used_tyres_recovery_in_
Europe_in_2006_ETRMA_national_figures_July_07.pdf
The police department in Chino,
California, USA, has issued a ‘Crime
Analysis Bulletin’ addressing a
recent wave of catalytic converter
thefts in the area. But it is a problem
of concern to the recycling industry
nationwide, according to a statement
put out by the US Institute of Scrap
Recycling Industries (ISRI).
Vehicles manufactured by Toyota
have been targetted in particular
because their converters are attached
by four bolts which can be easily
sawed off. In most other vehicles, con-
verters are welded to the exhaust sys-
tem, the bulletin explains.
In its statement, ISRI encourages
members to take extra care when pre-
sented with catalytic converters, espe-
cially in bulk. A stolen catalytic con-
verter can lead to repair costs of up to
US$ 2000 for a car owner depending
on the make and model of the vehicle,
the organisation points out.
Spate of catalytic
converter thefts
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