Eriez has announced that American Recycling, a scrap metal firm based in New Jersey, has agreed to purchase a scrap sorting system from Eriez through American Pulverizer Co.
Mike Shattuck, project manager for Eriez’s Heavy Industries division, reports that the package price for the equipment purchased will exceed $700,000. “The new system will demonstrate a quick payback to American Recycling due to its ability to provide #1 shred quality steel, additional recovery potential and manpower savings,” says Shattuck.
The system sold includes the P-Rex Scrap Drum for improved ferrous recovery, a Shred1 Separator to provide low copper frag, a 90-inch ProSort II Airless Metal Recovery System, a 60-inch FinesSort Jr. Metal Recovery System, a rare earth eddy current separator and two pulley magnets.
The new CleanStream process combines the Eriez P-Rex Drum and Eriez’ new Shred1 Separator. The P-Rex Drum improves ferrous recovery by one to two percent, while the Shred1 Separator produces a low copper shred, a premium deliverable to the steel industry.
Eriez claims that the CleanStream Process produces the highest quality melt by separating clean ferrous from other materials. Besides improving both ferrous recovery and ferrous grade, the CleanStream Process can reduce the number of hand sorters required on the processing line, improving the profitability, according to an Eriez release.
The Eriez says its P-Rex permanent rare earth drum magnet is a breakthrough in ferrous separation. The product’s P-Rex’s permanent magnetic circuit, designed using sophisticated modeling techniques, is up to 40 percent stronger than an electro drum and is capable of moving large spherical objects at twice the distance.
The ProSort II Airless Metal Recovery System doubles the number of metal sensors found on the original ProSort machine and positions them on one-inch centers. The high resolution sensors are aligned with a new inverted paddle mechanism to improve recovery of valuable metals, including automotive wiring harnesses. This new arrangement improves large and small metallic recovery, while producing a “cleaner” fraction.
The compact design of the FinesSort Jr. Metal Recovery System allows for efficient recovery of one-inch and smaller fines. It is a perfect solution for recyclers to increase profitability and send less metal particles to landfills.
Similar to the FinesSort, the FinesSort Jr. receives discarded “fines” material that has passed through an initial screening process and creates two material streams: a clean nonferrous metals stream and a waste stream. The FinesSort Jr. not only reduces the amount of waste destined for landfill, but can reclaim thousands of pounds of metals per day.
Eriez eddy current separators are ideal for material recovery facilities wishing to automate removal of nonferrous metals from trash, municipal solid waste, sand, glass, dirt, CTD, electronic scrap and shredded automobiles.
Eddy Current Separators are available in feed widths of 24, 36, 48, 60 and 84 inches (610, 914, 1220, 1524 and 2134 mm) and in either eccentric or concentric rotor designs.
Eriez Magnetic Pulleys are available in permanent designs. Eriez Permanent AIP Pulleys feature industry-leading magnetic field strength. They offer easy installation and self-cleaning operation. Eighty combinations of diameters from 8 to 36-inches (203 to 914mm) and belt widths from 8 to 60-inches (203 to 1524mm) are available.
For more information, visit www.eriez.com.
American Recycling Purchases Eriez Sorting System
New Jersey firm is spending more than $700,000 on the equipment to boost the amount of recyclables extracted.