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Avis Industrial acquires IPS Balers

Upland, Indiana-based Avis Industrial Corp., a privately held company with 10 subsidiaries throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico, has acquired IPS Balers Inc., Baxley, Georgia, from the CP Group, San Diego.

IPS Balers manufactures ferrous, nonferrous, plastics and mixed fiber balers. Since 2008, IPS was a part of the CP Group of Cos., an international manufacturer of custom material recovery facilities (MRFs) and equipment, including disc screens, trommels, optical sorters and other material separation and recovery equipment.

IPS is the third baler company Avis owns, joining American Baler Co. and Harris Waste Management Group Inc.

“The features that are exclusive to IPS machines, including the precompression lids, hinge sides and bale-tie two rams, are innovative and allow us to meet the requirements of even more customers in the recycling industry,” says Avis International Chairman and CEO Leland Boren.

Avis has named CP a strategic international distributor, authorizing CP to sell all Avis baler lines.

CP President Terry Schneider says, “Six years ago, CP acquired IPS to offer customers a complete package to our sort systems. Now, as a distributor for Avis, we will be able to offer our customers even more baler solutions.”

Avis says in return it will have direct access to CP sorting systems, including disc screens and optical sorters, among other MRF components.

Boren says, “We are excited about future opportunities with CP, leveraging their MRF equipment and design solutions within our network.”

The CP Group of Cos. engineers, makes and installs MRFs for various sectors.

Avis' wholly owned subsidiaries are AI International, American Baler Co., Crankshaft Machine Co., CUMSA Corp., Edgerton Forge Inc. and Harris Waste Management Group Inc.

Toter opens manufacturing plant in Salt Lake City

Toter, a manufacturer of two-wheel curbside recycling, waste and secured carts, has opened its newest manufacturing facility in Salt Lake City. Toter, based in Statesville, North Carolina, is a division of the equipment company Wastequip, Charlotte, North Carolina.

Toter says the new facility reaffirms its commitment to the company’s growth strategy and the expansion of manufacturing in the United States. The nearly 60,000-square-foot Salt Lake City facility will create between 60 to 70 new jobs in the Utah city over the next three years. The facility will serve retail customers throughout North America as well as municipalities and haulers in the western U.S. and Canada.

Marty Bryant, CEO of Wastequip, says, “The investments we are making at Toter will ensure a strong growth plan well into the future and is evidence of our ongoing commitment to our customers. The new manufacturing facility will increase operational efficiencies and align with Toter’s strategy of building products in the regions where they are primarily sold.”

Bryant adds, “We searched throughout the western U.S. to find a location that would serve our customers well, and Salt Lake City fit all of our criteria. As the supplier of choice for large national haulers, municipalities and retailers, our expansion strategy is key to continuing to provide the waste industry’s best products at the most competitive rates and delivery times.”

The new facility is one in a series of strategic manufacturing expansions to boost capacity, Wastequip says.

Bryant says, “With this new facility up and running, we anticipate that 100 percent of our carts sold through retail channels will be made in the United States by the end of 2015.”

Toter also has manufacturing and distribution operations in Statesville, North Carolina; Del Rio, Texas; and Acuña, Coahuila, Mexico.

Product Spotlight

Franklin Miller Taskmaster Titan shredder

Franklin Miller, a Livingston, New Jersey-based manufacturer of size reduction equipment, including crushers, shredders, grinders and screens, has added the Taskmaster Titan TM14000 to its line of shredders. The patented twin-shaft shredder offers the following features, according to Franklin Miller:

• a counter-rotating cutter design, featuring one cutting stack that engages with a second stack of a greater diameter;
• capable of shredding paper, old corrugated containers (OCC), electronic components, packaging, plastics, bottles and containers, pharmaceuticals, biosolids and bulky items;
• equipped with a 5-horsepower motor and gear drive with cutting chambers ranging from 14 inches by 16 inches to 14 inches by 32 inches; and
• an S25060 automatic jam-sensing controller.

More information is available online at www.franklinmiller.com