City of Salem, Va., Adds Marathon BlokPak Compactors

The city of Salem, Va., has started operating a new transfer station that features two BlokPak Transfer System Compactors manufactured by Marathon Equipment Co. of Vernon, Ala.

The new facility handles municipal solid waste as well as some construction and demolition debris. Jim Fender, director of Solid Waste for the city of Salem, initiated and coordinated the project.

“The BlokPaks have tripled our ability to process waste here in Salem,” Fender says in a press release issued by Marathon. “With the BlokPak we were able to pack-out a transfer trailer to full-capacity in 13 minutes. We can actually pack three trailers in the same amount of time it used to take us to pack-out one.” He adds, “This has dramatically increased our efficiency, which saves operating cost. With the arrival of the new BlokPaks our payloads have increased from 21.5 tons to 25 tons.”

Fender says he choose two of the Marathon systems because he “really wanted redundancy in the system, and buying two Marathon BlokPaks for less than the cost of one of the competition’s allowed that to happen.”

Marathon Equipment manufactures waste handling, recycling and scrap-processing equipment. More information is available at www.MarathonEquipment.com.