Wendt Corp., Tonawanda, N.Y., says the TiTech CombiSense unit that it offers is ideal in an environment where copper pricing has reached record-high pricing levels of $10,000 per metric ton on the London Metal Exchange and other trading floors as of early February.
In a news release, Wendt describes the CombiSense as “a high-production separation machine used in sorting different types of shredded nonferrous feedstock to produce high-purity metal fractions. The CombiSense uses a combination of sensor technology and the most advanced high resolution cameras to separate material by color, shape, size, conductivity and brightness. Various materials can be targeted and separated, including brass, zinc, stainless steel, circuit boards, coins and, most importantly, copper.”
Wendt Corp. customer Bobby Helbein of Southern Metals Co., Charlotte, N.C., contacted Wendt about the CombiSense in 2007. “We tried to pick as much copper and brass as we could, but there is no way you can hand pick as well as this machine can find it,” says Helbein.
According to Wendt, Helbein has configured his CombiSense to separate zinc, stainless steel, brass and copper. He says he has improved “from a 40 percent sort to almost 100 percent” in extracting those commodities.
“I am glad I made this purchase,” says Helbein, who calculates that he recouped his investment in the CombiSense within two years. “It has performed beyond my expectations—it is absolutely doing what the folks at Wendt Corp. said it would, and more.”
More information on the CombiSense and other equipment offered by Wendt can be found at www.wendtcorp.com.
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