Columbus McKinnon Corp., Sarasota, Florida, has announced it has recently completed the installation and commission of a tire recycling system in Poland.

CM says the system produces wire free rubber to be used as feed stock for a new pyrolysis system. The line is also capable of producing clean steel.

According to a news release, CM's system was chosen because of its "ability to supply a turn-key system" capable of processing passenger car and truck tires into wire free rubber and clean steel with purity level of less than four percent contamination. 

For the application, CM utilized its zero-waste system. The system consists of four major components, including a CM primary shredder and external classifier for processing whole passenger car and truck tires to 4-to-6-inch chips.

The chips are fed to a CM rotor that liberates the wire fraction from the rubber, as well as sizes the rubber.

Liberated materials are processed by the CM zero waste wire cleaning system, which efficiently separates the rubber and steel fractions, CM says.

An air handling system is used to capture the nylon material that is separated during process. It is also used to remove excess nylon fiber from the wire.

The rubber is fed directly to silos where it is stored prior to being fed into the reactors. Due to its purity level, the wire is being sold to the steel industry.

The system is operated by an advanced HMI/PLC system that monitors and controls all systems. CM along with the end user of the system have the capability to monitor system and adjust the operating system from the factory or any remote location.

This is the second such installation that CM has supplied in Europe for producing feed stock for the pyrolysis/gasification industry.

The Brussels-based Bureau of International Recycling’s (BIR) Ferrous Division board appointed Gregory Schnitzer as its new divisional president. 

Schnitzer serves as the vice president of ferrous sales at Oregon-based Schnitzer Steel Industries and has been with the company since 2003. According to BIR, Schnitzer became active on the Ferrous Division board in 2010.

As BIR Ferrous Division president, Schnitzer is a member of the BIR Executive Committee and serves as vice president of the organization, BIR reports.

BIR President Ranjit Baxi says Schnitzer’s vision and experience will be a great asset to BIR and its leadership. He also thanks Tom Bird of Hong Kong-based Chiho Environmental Group Ltd. for having served as interim president of the BIR Ferrous Division for the past year.

Schnitzer’s appointment was recommended to the divisional board by the division’s Nominating Committee under the chairmanship of Ruggero Alocci, owner of Italy-based Alocci Rappresentanze Industriali. BIR reports that the appointment will be formally endorsed by the delegates at the next divisional plenary meeting in 2019 in Singapore.

The Paper Stock Industries (PSI) Chapter of the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI), Washington, held its most successful annual fundraising bowling tournament to date Oct. 17 at Lucky Strike Chicago.

The event, which raises money to support PSI’s academic scholarship fund, earned enough to allow the chapter to give $2,000 scholarships to eight students next year, matching its 2018 scholarship record, PSI reports.

The bowling tournament featured 12 five-person teams, with “Quilmington Paper”—a team of participants from Wilmington Paper Corp., Pine Brook, New Jersey, and Quincy Recycle, Alsip, Illinois, taking top honors.

The winning team—Stuart Lurie, Kurt McLaughlin, John Danker, Brett Lurie and Phil Bellafiore—posted a single-game team score of 698.

This year’s event also raised funds through corporate sponsorship and individual registrations for the tournament’s networking and other activities, such as billiards.

PSI thanks the following sponsoring companies:

• Signature sponsors, Waste Management and WestRock;
• Scholarship sponsors, Consolidated Scrap Resources Inc., FireRover, Fr. Meyer’s Sohn, GP Harmon Recycling, National Fiber, PADNOS, Potential Industries Inc. and Sonoco;
• Bar sponsors, Caraustar, CellMark, Combined Resources Inc., GDB International Inc., Miami Waste Paper, Mid America Paper Recycling, Pratt Industries and Quincy Recycle;
• Bar and lane sponsors, Balcones Resources and RMC;
• Lane sponsors, Friedman Recycling Cos., GT, Harris, Midland Davis Corp., Pratt Industries, Recycling Today Media Group, Storelli Recycling Co., Van Dyk Recycling Solutions and Wilmington Paper Corp./Recycling Management Systems;
• Snack sponsors, Fibre Trade Inc., Great Lakes Recycling, Pioneer Industries International and Texas Recycling Inc.; and
• Trophy sponsors, Dixie Pulp & Paper Inc. and Western Pacific.

“These scholarships have the potential to change lives and PSI sincerely thanks every individual and company that made this event such a resounding success,” says Scholarship Committee Chair Nini Krever of Wilmington Paper Corp.

Columbus McKinnon Corp., Sarasota, Florida, has announced the sale of two of its signature mobile tire shredding systems. The two machines are capable of processing 15 tons of passenger car and truck tires into 50-by-50-millimeter chips, CM says.

The sale marks the first time that CM has supplied equipment on the continent of Africa. The machines were sold to the South African government and will be used throughout South Africa to rid the country of its scrap tires and the problems associated with the disposing of and stockpiling of tires, according to a recent news release.

CM tire shredding systems use a patented knife technology that produces the highest quality chips with the least amount of exposed wire, according to the company. The chips are desired by the cement industry and will be used as a supplemental fuel in cement kilns throughout the country.

CM patented knife systems are produced with hardened knives, which last longer than typical shear shredder knives. The knives are can be sharpened and can used up to six times.

CM currently has more than 400 installations in 28 countries and on six different continents.