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37October 2014

JMC/McIntyre goes for gold
with new branding
A prolific recycling machinery innovator, UK-

based JMC Recycling Systems can always be

relied upon to have something new to tell cus-

tomers at its comparatively local RWM show.

But this year’s Birmingham event stood out as

a true milestone for the company in that it

unveiled its new branding.

Henceforth, it will operate under the name of

McIntyre, which was also its original manufac-

turing name. According to managing director

Phillip Pownall, the company ‘has been selling

McIntyre machines since 1975’, and it is a name

with which ‘everyone around the world is famil-

iar and everyone sees as quality’. McIntyre’s new

logo is in the shape of a pentagon ‘in a nod to

JMC’s logo’, and is in gold to underpin the com-

pany’s new tagline of ‘the gold standard in recy-

cling systems and services’.

At its Nottingham factory, the company will

continue to design and build its own JMC and

McIntyre brands, plus the Vortex series. It will

also continue to ‘sell, enhance and service’ com-

plementary machines from a range of other

recycling equipment companies around the

world. Following a deal signed in the summer,

the most recent addition to this list is SAS Forks

– a US firm which custom-designs and manu-

factures tines, blades and fork assemblies for

various material handling applications. Its

product portfolio includes the SAS Scorpion

Engine Ripper for removing engines from end-

of-life vehicles ‘in seconds’.

For a transitional period, the Nottingham com-

pany will be referred to as ‘McIntyre, a JMC

Recycling Systems Ltd company’. A feature cov-

ering the thinking behind the new branding

and latest company developments is scheduled

to appear in the December issue of Recycling

International. www.jmcrecycling.com

Eriez unveils ‘new generation’
separator
One of the innovations on the Eriez Magnetics

Europe stand at RWM was so new that, at the

time of the show, it had yet to be fully trialled.

The company’s NG32 eddy current separator

(with NG standing for ‘new generation’) incor-

porates a multi-pole system for better separa-

tion of fines. Tests to date have suggested an

increase of 1-2% in fines separation – described

by the company’s sales manager for recycling,

John Cope, as ‘massive’.

Furthermore, the separator has been designed

so as to facilitate and accelerate adjustments and

maintenance. According to Cope, a belt change

on other such systems can require lifting equip-

ment and take ‘three to four hours’. No lifting

equipment is needed with the NG32 and so the

same operation can be completed ‘in 30 minutes’.

The NG32 is capable of handling particle sizes

up to 150 mm, with throughput depending on

the material stream. A dual-frequency rare

earth eccentric rotor allows separation of large

and very fine (below 12 mm) particles on the

same machine, the technical literature explains.

Also in Birmingham, the company’s Metal Loss

Monitor was on display in Europe for the first

time. Featured in the September issue of Recy-

cling International (page 27), this continu-

ously scans product streams for both ferrous

and non-ferrous metals that have escaped a

tial outlets for stolen metal and enabling author-

ities to crack down on criminal activity.

Having described implementation of the new

act as ‘a watershed moment’ for the UK’s £5

billion-plus metals recycling industry, Hether-

ington has consistently maintained that its suc-

cess hinges on robust enforcement. Speaking

to Recycling International, he claimed that

BMRA members have ‘lost a lot of business –

possibly into the illegal sector’, not least because

of patchy enforcement. ‘Lax enforcement ends

up being bad law,’ he insisted.

More women joining industry
Although there has been a ‘demonstrable

reduction’ in metal theft since the new legal

regime was introduced, the problem ‘has not

gone away’, Hetherington insisted. And yet evi-

dence suggests fewer police and authority

resources are now being invested in enforce-

ment of the new measures designed to combat

criminal activity. He reiterated his view that,

unless the new act is enforced with vigour,

metal theft will increase at the expense of the

legitimate industry.

Hetherington’s feedback on the licensing proc-

ess itself was more positive. In April this year,

he had urged local authorities to speed up the

processing of licences, claiming that roughly

40% were still unissued more than four months

after the enforcement date. However, ‘the bulk

Market falls
short of
matching the hype

The McIntyre stand at RWM featuring the company’s new ‘gold
standard’ logo.

Eriez’s John Cope (left) and Gareth Meese with the company’s NG32
eddy current separator.

of licences have now been issued to those who

applied for them’, he confirmed.

Also on the plus side, Hetherington noted evi-

dence to suggest that the move away from cash

transactions has encouraged more women to

join the recycling business by alleviating per-

sonal security fears. The act has also delivered

‘a real reputational gain’ by enabling legitimate

players ‘to demonstrate that they operate in a

fair and open way’.

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