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Hustler Conveyor Co., St. Charles, Mo., has installed a new single-stream recycling system located in the heart of wine country in St. Helena, Calif.

The new system at Upper Valley Disposal processes 10 tons per hour of fiber and commingled containers. Hustler Conveyor worked closely with Bob Pestoni and Chuck Post of Upper Valley Disposal and its local distributor, Western Baler & Conveyor, to design and engineer the entire project.

The systems’ equipment includes 12 conveyors (including roller chain, flat sliders and idlers), along with four screens, including a "Newsorter," two debris screens and a polishing screen.

Also included are container storage bunkers with an air system, process logic controls, a hydraulic "load leveler," structural supports and platforms. The system also incorporated an existing sort line.

According to Bob Pestoni, president of Upper Valley Disposal Service, the system allows for more efficient processing of recyclables and for greater landfill diversion. Pestoni says, "The paper is very clean. We’ve had no problem meeting market specifications."

Chuck Post, general manager for Upper Valley Disposal Service, oversaw the installation of the new processing equipment and the operation of the plant. "The installation went very smoothly," he says. "We are pleased to be processing more tons per day than we anticipated. I would highly recommend these guys."

Hustler Conveyor Co. has been manufacturing and supplying equipment and systems for the recycling and solid waste industries for more than 40 years.

Columbus McKinnon Corp. (CM), Sarasota, Fla., has sold two CM Chip Shredders to Merrick Construction Co., Cottonport, La. The two new Chip Shredders will be used as part of a tire pile clean up effort in east Texas. The Chip Shredders mark the fourth and fifth CM machines purchased by Merrick.

The clean-up in Atlanta, Texas, has been long awaited as the stockpile has plagued the area for some time. The site, scarred by some 30 million tires, is now in the process of being cleaned. Merrick is the contractor, working with funds from the Texas Commission of Environmental Quality (TCEQ).

Piles of tire shreds make up the majority of the material on the property. Small chips will be screened from the tire shreds prior to processing in the Chip Shredders, which work in tandem to produce a clean cut tire derived fuel (TDF) at throughput rates up to 15 tons per hour. The TDF is then removed from the property and shipped to Louisiana for use as a fuel supplement at paper mills within the state.

"With its simplistic design, the CM Chip Shredder offers a low cost, low maintenance solution to the customer’s problems," says Rick Colyar, national sales manager for Columbus McKinnon’s Sarasota Operations.

TSI SHREDDER INSTALLED IN COLORADO

ALL Recycling, Englewood, Colo., has purchased a new shredder system from Texas Shredder Inc. (TSI), San Antonio. The 80/104 NG model incorporates the latest front-wall assembly design and what TSI bills as a longer-lasting bottom grate design. It will include a new 35-degree feed chute, a hydraulic double feed roll, a B.E.S.T. undermill vibrator, a "no weld" disc rotor and shredder isolation mounts (springs) made by B.E.S.T. of Brunswick, Ohio. The system will also include the "autopilot" production performance feature, which is an automated design to control the functions of the shredder in order to increase production, lower energy costs and improve finished product quality. A new 2500 600-RPM Alstom wound round motor that will be commissioned and serviced by Mueller Engineering will power the TSI shredder system. ALL Recycling anticipates the system being operational by the third quarter of 2003.

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WENDT OFFERS STAINLESS RECOVERY TECHNOLOGY

Wendt Corp., Tonawanda, N.Y., is the exclusive North American distributor for a new line of equipment that recovers stainless steel and other metals that some recyclers are allowing to head to the landfill.

According to Wendt Corp., several types of metals that other eddy current machines and pickers might miss can be mined from mixed streams, including stainless steel, copper windings and insulated and bare copper wire.

"This new technology will recover lost revenue from your waste streams and promises to be a significant advancement to the shredding industry, like the introduction of eddy current separators in the 1990s," says Tom Wendt of Wendt Corp.

Rather than use magnetic strength, this technology uses a high frequency magnetic sensor to detect metals with a high-speed computer that fires an array of compressed air nozzles to eject metals from the waste stream.

Separation Systems Engineering GmbH (SSE), located in Wedel, Germany, created the technology. Since 1988, the SSE group of companies has sold more than 200 separators to various industries in 15 countries, including the U.S.

Wendt says SSE’s technology is easily integrated into current nonferrous metal recycling systems.

Wendt Corp. demonstrates the technology at its facility near Buffalo, N.Y., and invites customers to bring their post eddy current material for processing and evaluation.