Scrap Salvage & Surplus Inc., Butler, Pa., has announced that it has patented a mobile processing unit for heavy torching of oversized metal scrap generated by steelmakers and other metal manufacturers.
According to the company, the unit, which began operating in 2005, reduces energy consumption and labor costs and effectively eliminates 99.8 percent of airborne emissions generated by ferrous and nonferrous metal torching in the traditional cutting process.
The patent was awarded in August 2008.
Michael Keith, president of Scrap Salvage & Surplus, says the mobile processing unit is more efficient for scrap processing than standard stationary units because it travels over the arranged materials, permitting continuous operation and eliminating the need to handle material more than once. This leads to fuel, maintenance and labor savings, he adds.
The mobile unit is capable of accommodating heavy torching, lance rods, plasma cutting, scarfing and, with minimal modification, sand blasting and painting. The process facility can employ two torch operators simultaneously and be equipped with automatic torches.
Scrap Salvage & Surplus says tens of thousands of tons of ferrous and nonferrous metals, including stainless pit scrap, tundish, manganese, 50-inch-thick inconel and 58-ton mill rolls, have been processed since the company began operating the unit.
Additional services offered by the company include rail car clean-out and repairs, inventory management and logistics coordination.
More information about Scrap Salvage & Surplus’s full menu of scrap processing services is available at www.scrapsalvage.com or by calling (724) 285-2876.
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