Equipment Report

Bulk Handling Systems Acquires NRT
Bulk Handling Systems (BHS), a company involved in the design, manufacturing and installation of sorting systems and components for the solid waste, recycling, waste-to-energy, and construction and demolition industries has acquired National Recovery Technologies (NRT), a U.S.-based company that designs and manufactures optical sorting equipment for the solid waste and recycling industries. BHS is headquartered in the United States.

“We’re pleased to add NRT to the BHS family,” says Steve Miller, BHS’ CEO. “NRT was founded by some of the brightest scientific minds in the industry, and its values have been based on technology innovation, quality of manufacturing and a strong commitment to customer support, values that BHS has as well.”

NRT, founded in 1981, owns or is the exclusive licensee of 29 U.S. patents and five overseas patents covering NIR, X-Ray, Laser, and Line Camera sorting systems. According to a BHS release, NRT has significant expertise in plastic bottle and flake sorting technology, and also has the world’s largest installed capacity in PET plastic reclamation plants.

Brian Wells with BHS says NRT’s plastics expertise will allow BHS to strengthen its business in this segment. Wells also notes that BHS’ coverage of the MRF business will give NRT greater exposure to the overall MRF area.

Danieli Group Acquires Akros Henschel SAS
Steelmaker and engineering firm Danieli & C Officine Meccaniche S.p.A., based in Buttrio, Italy, has acquired Akros Henschel SAS, a manufacturer of hydraulic scrap shears, balers, pre-shredders and vertical grinders. The purchase follows Danieli’s late 2010 acquisition of LYNXS Shredders.

Since 1970 Akros Henschel businesses have delivered more than 450 large scrap processing machines throughout the world. Under the deal, Danieli assumes Akros Henschel’s primary manufacturing facilities in Chambéry, France and Kassel, Germany, both of which will continue to work along existing Danieli facilities in Italy, Thailand, China and India. The ongoing business will adopt the name Danieli Henschel.

With annual revenue greater than €3 billion (US$3.97 billion), Danieli is one of the world’s largest privately controlled integrated engineering and manufacturing groups.

“The Akros Henschel product line and business units will be merged into the Danieli Centro Recycling division,” says Emanuele Brusini, executive vice president. “In the past year Danieli has delivered significant turnkey projects for scrap processing facilities within our traditional steel making markets. By adding large hydraulic scrap shears and balers we see tremendous opportunity for further vertical integration of scrap preparation, handling and continuous charging processes within electric arc furnace (EAF) melt shops.”

Daniel Damart, former managing director of Akros Henschel, will adopt a leading role within Danieli’s senior management team, responsible for developing scrap processing markets outside of steelmaking.

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“The Henschel brand is long established and renowned within the scrap metal recycling communities of the world for quality in both design and operation,” notes Damart. “The combination of our pre-shredders, large static and mobile scrap shears and balers with Danieli’s existing shredder range enables the new group to meet the needs of both the smallest and largest scrap processing companies of the world.”

EREMA Reports Record Sales
The plastic recycling equipment manufacturing company Engineering Recycling Maschinen und Anlagen Ges.m.b.H. (EREMA), headquartered in Ansfelden, Austria, has reported record sales of €115 million (US$152 million) for its most recent fiscal year. The company says the increase represents a 40% jump from the previous fiscal year, and a 25% increase from the former record period of 2007-08. A company statement notes that EREMA produced 200 recycling systems and 100 individual components in the new record period. Together with subidiaries EREMA North America, Ipswich, U.S., and 3S GmbH, Roitham, Austria, the company achieved group sales of €127 million. The company offers plastic recycling systems for in-house recycling of production scrap and contaminated post-consumer scrap.