A 120-inch-wide Stainless Steel Separator manufactured in the U.S. is now available from Wendt/SSE. The equipment is designed to recover metals that may currently be heading to the landfill in the post-shredder stream, including stainless steel, copper windings and insulated and bare copper wire. The SSE machine is designed to pick up where eddy current separators leave off, Wendt says.
Wendt/SSE has sold more than 70 separators worldwide to the scrap recycling industry, according to the company. Sales in 2004 have included units shipped to a Metal Management Inc. facility in Memphis, Tenn.; to Conservit Inc. in Hagerstown, Md.; to Prospect Metal in York, Pa.; and to Don’s Scrap in Hemmingway, S.C.
The company reports that its 2003 installations have reported rapid returns on investment, with one customer calculating a 60-day payback period. Wendt Corp. anticipates that the wider 120-inch Stainless Steel Separator “will provide even more cost effective productivity with very quick returns on investment and even greater TPH throughput.”
Wendt Corp., Tonawanda, N.Y., is the exclusive North American distributor for the technology created by Separation Systems Engineering GmbH (SSE), based in Wedel, Germany. Product development of the technology will remain in Germany, where the company has more than 250 separators worldwide operating in a variety of industries.
Wendt is designing and fabricating the SSE separators at its Tonawanda facility. The company says features common to its eddy current product line will now be incorporated into the SSE sorters, including adjustability of operating parameters to maximize recovery; one-piece belt replacement; “Scrap Duty” construction; and low maintenance requirements.