Stadler America adds to sales team

Stadler America LLC, headquartered in Spartanburg, South Carolina, has announced that Rutger Zweers joined the company in October 2014 as sales director. He is based in the Pacific Northwest.

“Rutger’s experience in the recycling machinery industry will be a tremendous benefit for our customers,” says Roland Zimmer, CEO of Stadler America.

Zweers has an extensive background in the material processing and recycling industry, with more than 12 years of experience in Europe and the U.S.

While the company’s bills one of its strengths as its single-stream processing plants, Zweers says he sees Stadler as being in an ideal position to take full advantage of the emerging single bin (household waste) processing and recycling plants in the U.S., a system that already is employed in Europe.

“The recent plant installations here in the USA make for exciting times at Stadler! I am excited to be a part of it and to help strengthen its local footprint,” Zweers says.

Stadler is a supplier of sorting and recycling plants for the waste management industry. The company claims to be the originator of the ballistic separator (2D/3D screen) and has sold more than 700 units worldwide. Stadler also has installed 250-plus MRFs (material recovery facilities) globally, including three within the U.S.

The company engineers and manufactures sorting plants for lightweight packaging materials and polymers; commingled and single-stream materials; municipal solid waste; paper and cardboard; and industrial waste and refuse-derived fuel.