Schutte-Buffalo, a Buffalo, New York-based manufacturer of size reduction equipment, has announced the promotion of Mark Podgorny to the role of director of engineering.

Podgorny began his career with Buffalo Hammermill Corp. in 1995 as a purchaser and size reduction test technician. He remained with the company through their merger with fellow Buffalo size reduction equipment manufacturer Schutte Pulverizer Co. in 2004. With the newly formed Schutte-Buffalo Hammermill, Podgorny’s role assumed a greater engineering focus, where his design and engineering expertise was pivotal in adapting the existing Schutte Pulverizer and Buffalo Hammermill product lines to a wide variety of growing industries, the company says in a news release. His involvement in new product development and focus on custom design has been a significant factor in the growth of Schutte-Buffalo over the past 12 years, the company adds.

As director of engineering, he will oversee the engineering and purchasing teams while continuing his principal engineering role of custom size reduction equipment design and turnkey system development.

“Over his career, Mark has demonstrated his unique understanding of the size-reduction world and its myriad of application engineering and design challenges,” says company President Chris Berardi. “We’re excited for continued growth in our business, and Mark taking on his new role is critical to our success and the success of our customers.”

Schutte-Buffalo’s product line features 250 different models of size reduction equipment ranging in size from 2 horsepower to 800 horsepower, with many custom configurations available. 

Advanced Disposal, Ponte Vedra, Florida, an integrated environmental services company, has completed the acquisition of CGS Services Inc. Based in Morristown, Indiana, CGS services a 14-county area in central and eastern Indiana through a vertically integrated network of solid waste collection, recycling and disposal assets that generate annual revenue approaching $30 million.

"CGS is an established operation in a secondary market that fits perfectly with our market selection strategy and gives us a new platform to continue to grow our business," says Richard Burke, Advanced Disposal CEO. "CGS has developed an excellent reputation in the markets it serves, and we are pleased to welcome their top-tier professionals and customers to the Advanced Disposal family."

As the fourth largest solid waste company in the U.S., Advanced Disposal provides integrated, nonhazardous solid waste collection, recycling and disposal services to residential, commercial, industrial and construction customers across 16 states and the Bahamas.

 

The U.S. Shredder and Castings Group, Miramar, Florida, has entered into an agreement with Southfield, Michigan-based Fire Rover to market its proactive fire suppression system to the North American scrap industry.

U.S. Shredder President Bill Tigner says, “We had a very good customer that we were doing a turnkey installation for on a nonferrous plant after a catastrophic fire. We knew of the Fire Rover because one of our other nonferrous plant customers had installed the system, and it had recently extinguished a fire at their plant. We immediately contacted Fire Rover to see if a joint marketing effort made sense for both of us. We now offer the Fire Rover to the entire North American scrap industry. In our opinion, if anyone has ASR (auto shredder residue), the Fire Rover is a small investment. We offer it as an option on every nonferrous plant or upgrade we install.”

Anyone wishing to request an on-site consultation or to schedule a live demonstration can contact U.S. Shredder.

The U.S. Shredder and Castings Group offers scrap shredders, control systems, downstream systems, nonferrous recovery and air systems, as well as shredder castings, service, engineering, construction and installation to the worldwide scrap industry.

Andritz MeWa, part of Austria-based technology group Andritz, has received an order from Papier- und Kartonfabrik Varel, a papermaker based in Varel, Germany, to supply a processing line for pulper rags.

Pulper rags are a tightly entangled mechanical compound of metallic and nonmetallic components formed during the pulping of recovered paper or pulp in the vortex center of a pulper.

Andritz MeWa will supply a two-stage process for treatment of the pulper rags. In the first section of the plant, the rags will be preshredded using the MeWa Universal Rotary Shear UC 1300. The slowly rotating, twin-shaft cutter unit is designed to provide “powerful and, at the same time, energy-saving preshredding of the stringy input material and is “largely insensitive to potential impurities,” according to Andritz.

In a second step, the material is shredded further by a UG 1000 S granulator. By using a replaceable screen with variable screen slot diameters, the customer can influence the throughput and the shredding result. At the end of the process, the metal fractions produced have a high purity level, says Andritz, while the residual fraction can be used as substitute fuel.

Results obtained in extensive material tests in the test center at Andritz MeWa’s headquarters in Gechingen, Germany, convinced Varel to place its order with Andritz, says the firm, as did “the higher throughputs obtained compared to competitors’ equipment.”

Papier- und Kartonfabrik Varel was established in 1947 and is a medium-sized, family-run company with more than 500 employees at its location in Varel. The company produces 850,000 short tons per year of high-grade paper and packaging industry board on four production lines.