Equipment company also adds Michael Graveman, former president of Magnatech, to its executive sales staff.

Dallas-based Granutech-Saturn Systems Corp., manufacturer of the Saturn brand of industrial and mobile shredders, has acquired the Magnatech line of industrial hammermills and ringmills. Matthew Morrison, Granutech-Saturn’s newly appointed president, says, “In line with our history of strategic acquisitions, the long established and proven Magnatech Engineering line of hammermills provides us with the opportunity to complete our unique line of high-performance shredders and more effectively address a wider variety of material applications, such as nonferrous scrap metal."  

With hundreds of machines installed and operating in the United States under the Magnatech brand, Granutech-Saturn says the acquisition will enhance the company’s line of Saturn shredders.  Granutech will manufacture the hammermill line in its 50,000-square-foot design, manufacturing and machining facility in Dallas, with global sales and support through its established network of direct sales, distributors and agents. In related Granutech news, the company says it has hired Michael Graveman, former president and chief sales executive of Magnatech, to ensure continuity for the company’s expanded line of Saturn shredders and hammermills. Graveman will serve as a key account executive with regional responsibility for the metal recycling market, Granutech reports. “It was time in Magnatech’s strategic plan to consider outside options on how to most effectively and significantly grow the hammermill business and launch it in a new direction, while ensuring the product line’s legacy,” Graveman states. “With its established leadership position in the recycling market, Granutech’s comprehensive and responsive manufacturing facility and onsite machining and design capabilities, sales channel and deep industrial shredder product portfolio make it uniquely positioned to support and grow the hammermill recycling systems business under its Saturn brand and position it for long-term success and growth on a global scale, and I’m excited to be an integral part of the next chapter.” Granutech notes that the Saturn hammermill series features heavy-duty plate steel construction and will initially be available in 36-inch, 48-inch and 60-inch diameters, in five different size configurations, featuring speeds of 900 to 1200 revolutions per minute (RPM). The Saturn hammermills have several features designed to ensure product longevity, including replaceable wear liners throughout the shredding chamber, spider rotors for maximum grate coverage, long-life alloy or manganese hammers and grate materials with optional hard-facing to increase cutting effectiveness, durability and life, Granutech reports. For added configurability, the units feature optional direct-drive or belt-drive motors from 150 horsepower to 1250 horsepower. Available as stand-alone units or as a fully integrated system, the Saturn hammermills can also be configured as ringmills, with configurable hammers, and are easy to install and integrate with other equipment, the company says. Auxiliary equipment includes conveyors, screeners, dust collection, magnets and other material handling components. Further downstream processing can be achieved by integrating additional equipment such as Saturn grinders, granulators, powderizers and refining mills. The Saturn hammermill is built for a variety of applications, including nonferrous and ferrous scrap metal recycling, as well as waste-to-energy, medical waste and bulky waste recycling applications. The company says the hammermill is ideal for nonferrous metal recycling, where the applications vary greatly. These can include a large corporate recycler buying bales of used beverage containers (UBCs) for shredding to be converted back into beverage cans, or a small recycler recovering precious metals from circuit boards or catalytic converters. Granutech-Saturn says Saturn hammermills can shred nonferrous metals of all sizes at rates between 1 to 30 tons per hour (TPH), offering high volume size reduction and low fines generation.

For more information on the new Saturn Hammermill, visit www.granutech.com/saturn-hammermill.html.

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Adam Minter, the Asia-based columnist for Bloomberg View and the author of Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade will be the keynote speaker at the annual Steinert Expo Aug. 25-26, 2015, according to Steinert US, Walton, Kentucky. In 2002, Minter began a series of investigative pieces on China’s emerging recycling industries for Scrap and Recycling International magazines that were recognized with the first Stephen Barr Award for individual excellence in business feature writing in 2004. He has been quoted and interviewed on the topic of recycling and waste by a range of international media, including The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, Vice, The Guardian and National Public Radio. “We are very excited to have Mr. Minter joining us for our event,” says Jason Looman, president of Steinert US.  “His book is a great review of the scrap and waste industries from a global perspective.”  Steinert will give out signed copies of Minter’s book to expo attendees. The Steinert Expo is a two-day event offering training, executive sessions and access to an exposition that features companies in the industry. A “Casino Night” during the event will raise money for Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. “Mr. Minter will be focusing his discussion on the current trends and future outlook on the global recycling business,” Looman says. “If you want to know what is happening in Asia, the expo is the place to be.” This is the fourth annual Steinert Expo. It takes place at the company’s North American headquarters in Walton.

Registration for the event begins April 21, 2015, during the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) Convention & Exposition in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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