CP Group Acquires Advanced MRF

The CP Group, San Diego, has announced the acquisition of Advanced MRF (AMRF), also of San Diego.

The CP Group consists of CP Manufacturing, Krause Manufacturing, MSS Optical Sorters, IPS Balers and now Advanced MRF. The company engineers, manufactures and installs material recovery facilities for residential recycling, municipal solid waste, waste to energy, construction and demolition, electronic scrap and organic waste. CP says it realized that by adding a company experienced in industrial automation it could bring together a family of industry-proven companies.

Advanced MRF is the fourth company CP Manufacturing has acquired since 2003. A Siemens Solutions Partner, Advanced MRF optimizes material recovery facilities (MRFs) through system automation, providing industrial automation and control solutions.

Richard Price, Advanced MRF’s general manager, brings more than25 years of experience to the CP Group.

Bob Davis, owner and CEO of the CP Group, says, "Technology will be an integrated part of our product. We are making a substantial investment into the serious application of technology into our offerings. We feel this adds a powerful aspect to the synergies of our companies. Each company can better focus on their individual equipment specialties with a common technology, data and control link.”

Davis continues, “This allows us to complete the material processing circle, offering every element of a MRF, from material weighing, material separation and material baling, all connected on an intelligent back plane."

Intelligent motor control systems offered by the CP Group can offer many benefits for customers, including increased uptime, decreased human error, decreased energy usage, increased productivity, proactive troubleshooting and increased safety, the company says.

With the acquisition of Advanced MRF, the CP Group now directly integrates control systems and plant-wide seamless data acquisitions. “With the addition of Advanced MRF to the CP Group, the four equipment manufacturing divisions will have technological synergy,” a press release from the company states.

CP Group management says it recognizes that “adding energy-efficient industrial automation technology to its material recovery facilities offers improved turnkey solutions to the waste and recycling industries.” The integration of the intelligent automation technology with mechanical separation equipment, optical sorting technologies and baling components makes everything act as one system.

AMRF’s Price says, “We are very excited about the merge, the talent we will gain, as well as the dynamic products, services and features that we will be introducing as we move forward.”