Company is installing another large scrap shear, this one at its Pocatello, Idaho, plant.
Pacific Steel and Recycling has begun a multimillion-dollar upgrade of its facility in Pocatello, Idaho. The company says the upgrade will allow the company to process more scrap metal and extend their reach to other regions of the state. The upgrade focuses on the installation of a scrap shear. According to one report, the shear measures 198 feet long and weighs 350,000 pounds. A spokesman for the company says the new machine is a significant upgrade from the facility’s existing equipment. “The other machines we are using to shear our scrap are excavator-mounted shears,” says Mike Kempel, manager of Pacific Steel and Recycling. “They burn an incredible amount of diesel fuel per hour. So this is going to make us more fuel efficient, more electric efficient and overall, a much more efficient way of handling our scrap material.” According to Kempel, the guillotine shear will be able to shear scrap iron to any length desired and can also be used for vehicles. “I was able to take a $450,000 piece of equipment and handed it off to one of our other branches because this going to serve the purpose of both a shear and a car logger,” he explains. Pat Kons, vice president of scrap operations for Pacific Steel, says that the shear is the third of four shears that the company is in the process of installing at facilities throughout its network of scrap metal yards. Kons notes that the company recently commissioned a shear in Spokane, Wash., and will be putting another shear at its shredder location in Billings, Mont. The first of the four shears installed for Pacific was last year in Nampa, Idaho.
MTB's France facility houses manufacturing and processing operations.
At MTB Recycling’s Trept, France, campus, 5,000 square metres (54,000 square feet) of its 80,000-square metre (860,000 square feet) plant space is devoted to the assembly of scrap processing equipment. MTB produces 60 or more pieces of equipment each year, with its single largest product sector being units designed for the size-reduction and materials separation of plastic-coated aluminium and copper wire and cable. The company’s shredders, pre-choppers, granulators, separators and air density tables are used in wire and cable processing applications around the world, as well as in WEEE scrap, tyre recycling, ASR processing and scrap metal processing applications. More details about MTB Recycling’s equipment can be found at www.mtb-recycling.fr/index-3.html or, for English-speakers, at www.mtb-recycling.fr/en/index-3.html.
Tire recycler will recycle scrap tires for the car rental firm nationally.
Liberty Tire Recycling, Pittsburgh, has signed an agreement with the car rental firm Hertz Corp. to recover and recycle scrap tires from all of the rental agency’s locations in the United States. According to Liberty, the partnership is the first agreement of its kind in the car rental industry. The deal is expected to result in the collection and recycling of more than 160,000 tires per year, the company says.
“At Liberty Tire Recycling, we are always looking at ways to develop productive partnerships that lead to the recovery and recycling of more scrap tires across North America,” says Jeffrey Kendall, CEO of Liberty Tire Recycling. “Hertz is a leader in its industry, and with this agreement, they have demonstrated definitively that they are committed to sustainable practices.
“With our continental footprint, we are the only company that can offer the services they are seeking, so we are delighted to partner with them,” Kendall adds.
"Hertz leads in sustainability throughout our operations, products and services. Today, we take the next step forward and launch the first zero landfill waste tire program in the industry," says Mark Frissora, Hertz chairman and CEO. "Through our partnership with Liberty Tire Recycling, we are implementing the first national tire recycling program and again set the pace for our sector."
The tires collected from Hertz will be recycled at one of 40 processing locations where they will be processed into crumb rubber.
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New separator designed to sort 2D material from 3D material.
The Machinex Group, based in Plessisville, Que., has introduced the latest addition to its range of separators, the MACH Ballistic. Machinex says it introduced the new separator to offer a wider range of products to its clients. The ballistic separator is a European-based sorting technology. The MACH Ballistic separator is designed for sorting two-dimensional material such as plastic film, paper, cardboard and fibers from three-dimensional material such as containers, plastic bottles, cans, stone wood, etc. While the two-dimensional material travels up the slope in a forward direction with the paddles, the three-dimensional material bounces or rolls downward. Fine particles can be collected separately with the optional variable screen openings, according to the company. The separator is designed to handle different material types, including: single-stream, municipal solid waste, commercial and industrial waste. The MACH Ballistic includes multiple separators designed to be stacked or paralleled to address various sorting challenges. By manufacturing this new equipment, Machinex says it wanted to offer a screening alternative for its clients. On top of offering an exceptional material screening quality, the MACH Ballistic requires minimal maintenance, significantly reducing repair costs. “We know the challenges that our customers have to face; the quality of the sorted material has become an issue on the market and the downtime for the maintenance of equipment is costly to the sorting centers. With the MACH Ballistic, we are offering a sorting solution adapted to the actual market, Pierre Paré, president of the Machinex Group, says. More information is available at www.machinextechnologies.com.