Installations

ELY ENTERPRISES

Ely Enterprises Inc., Cleveland, has installed a new Harris HRB-918-W baler for Joyce Iron & Metal Co., Columbus, Ohio. The baler, which features a bale release and bale separation door, is fed by a Mayfran steel belt infeed conveyor.

The baling system – the first of its kind in the Columbus area – will be processing nonferrous and light-gauge ferrous materials. The system, which is capable of baling up to 15 tons per hour, produces a dense 50-cubic-foot bale.

LINDEMANN

Lindemann Recycling Equipment Inc., Charlotte, N.C., has received three separate orders for its RAM II baler from three government entities: the city of Las Cruces, N.M.; the town of Wellesley, Mass.; and Accomack County, Va.

Las Cruces ordered a RAM II 615-50, and Wellesley ordered a RAM II 622-75 and an entire baling system. Both of these will be used at recycling facilities. Accomack County, which already has a Lindemann RAM II 827-100 in operation at its south landfill, ordered the new baler for its north landfill. All three of the recently ordered balers will be used for commingled recyclables.

MAC CORPORATION

MAC Corporation, Grand Prairie, Texas, has sold three of its newly-redesigned Big MAC mobile auto flatteners to Simsmetal Ltd., Sydney, Australia. Simsmetal, one of the world’s largest scrap metal recyclers, will be using the units for processing auto bodies. According to Jack West, executive vice president of MAC Corp., the sale of the flatteners represents a new direction for the Australian recycling industry.

“There has, for some time, been a great deal of emphasis on auto parts recycling in Australia,” he says. “However, until fairly recently, there has not been a lot of activity with regard to processing auto scrap in that part of the world. Having Simsmetal lead the way in this effort tells us there will certainly be other activity to follow.”

Sending units to Australia presented unique challenges even above the usual logistics of moving nearly 100 tons of equipment to the other side of the globe, according to West. “These are trailer-mounted flatteners,” he says. “As a result, we had to make special modifications to the trailers to conform to Australian highway regulations. These changes included installation of a special braking system and a kingpin to center the rear axle dimensions.”