Wendt to Distribute SSE Sorting Equipment

Wendt to Distribute SSE Sorting Equipment

The Import Division of Wendt Corp., Tonawanda, N.Y., has been named exclusive North American authorized distributor for German optical sorting equipment maker Separation Systems Engineering GmbH (SSE).

SSE, headquartered in Wedel, Germany, is an experienced designer, manufacturer and installer of optical, color and metal separation machines. The separation systems are often used as a next step following eddy current separation or heavy media separation.

The companies call the machines an economical, environmentally friendly and reduced labor method of sorting mixed streams of nonferrous metals.

The SSE Metal “X” CombiSense Separator can be programmed to detect and eject any metal, including all grades of stainless steel and nonferrous metals found in a post-shredder stream.  The CombiSense can also separate stainless steel from mixed nonferrous metals as well as separate these individual nonferrous metals into single grades of aluminum, zinc, copper, brass and lead.

A news release from Wendt Corp. calls the SSE system “truly the most advanced technology to appear onto the nonferrous scrap metal recycling market since the introduction of the eddy current separator ten years ago.”

SSE’s technology can be integrated into existing nonferrous metal recycling systems, according to Wendt Corp. The SSE system is guaranteed to sort mixed nonferrous metals virtually flawlessly at rates of up to eight tons per hour.