Recycling Today articles from June 2006

Recycling Today archives from June 2006

Let's make a deal.(consolidation in the metal industries)(Editorial)
June 1, 2006... After more than two years of strong commodity pricing, the amount of money flowing into the coffers of basic materials companies has, in some cases, drastically increased. On the metals side in particular the increase of cash flows (and...

Southern holdings, metal management sell Southern Recycling.(SCRAP INDUSTRY NEWS)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... Metal Management Inc. of Chicago and Southern Holdings LLC of New Orleans have announced the sale of Southern Recycling LLC to European Metal Recycling Ltd. (EMR) for $161.4 million in cash. Southern Recycling, headquartered in Covington,...

American Cast Iron Pipe Company upgrades recycling center.(SCRAP INDUSTRY NEWS)
June 1, 2006... American Cast Iron Pipe Company (ACIPCO), Birmingham, Ala., has completed a $4.5 million upgrade of its ACIPCO Recycling division, which the company says is the largest recycling facility of its kind in Alabama. The company says the upgrade...

PSC upgrades equipment.(SCRAP INDUSTRY NEWS)(PSC Metals Services)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... PSC Metals, headquartered in Cleveland, has announced that it has recently enhanced productivity and efficiency at its Canton, Chic shredder yard. PSC has added a Wendt 106 Heavy Shredder to its Canton yard to replace an older model, as...

CMC acquires Yonack Iron & Metal Co.(SCRAP INDUSTRY NEWS)
June 1, 2006... Commercial Metals Co. of Irving, Texas, has entered into an agreement to purchase most of the assets of Yonack Iron & Metal Co. and Metallic Industries LLC. The deal is expected to close this summer. Yonack operates scrap yards in Dallas...

OmniSource acquires Indiana company.(SCRAP INDUSTRY NEWS)
June 1, 2006... OmniSource Corp., Fort Wayne, Ind., has acquired K&F Industries, located in Indianapolis. The new facility will become headquarters for OmniSource's newly formed southern Indiana division. The new regional division will expand to include...

Norcal acquires California recycling plant.(MUNICIPAL RECYCLING)
June 1, 2006... San Francisco-based Norcal Waste Systems Inc. has agreed to purchase a recycling plant and associated facilities in San Jose, Calif., from Waste Management of San Jose. Norcal currently provides solid waste and recycling services to...

Wisconsin city expands curbside program.(MUNICIPAL RECYCLING)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... Madison, Wisc., has announced plans to expand its curbside recycling program by adding milk and juice cartons, aseptic packaging and aluminum foil pans and trays. Waste Management Recycle America's efforts to find markets for these...

Omaha joins Curbside Value Partnership.(MUNICIPAL RECYCLING)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... Omaha, Neb., has joined the Aluminum Can Council's (ACC) Curbside Value Partnership (OVP). Beginning this summer, the city's public works staff and the ACC will begin a citywide campaign to educate residents about the benefits of curbside...

Promise keepers.(Scrap metal industry)
June 1, 2006... Demand is strong for ferrous scrap, but supply is running just short enough that many shippers are running into trouble honoring their commitments to supply domestic mills. On the one hand, the situation brings with it the positive aspects...

MSA/RMDAS[TM] monthly ferrous scrap price index.(FERROUS)(Management Science Associates, Raw Material Data Aggregation Service)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... RMDAS INDEX SHOWS PRICE GAINS May purchasing by steel mills, based on RMDAS data, shows that mills in all regions of the country paid several dollars more per ton for ferrous scrap, on average. The biggest gain (from $17 to $19 per gross...

Mittal ups bid for Arcelor.(FERROUS)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... Mittal Steel Co. has increased the per-share price it is offering for European steelmaker Arcelor, andas of late May the business press viewed the deal as likelier to happen. According to a Bloomberg News report, Arcelor's board of...

SDI reports healthy earnings.(FERROUS)
June 1, 2006... Steel Dynamics Inc. (SDI), Fort Wayne, Ind., has announced first quarter 2006 earnings of $76 million, compared to $61 million in the first quarter of 2005. Net sales for the first quarter of 2006 were $666 million, an increase of 17...

Hedging your bets.(nonferrous scrap industry forecast)
June 1, 2006... Nonferrous markets continue to be extremely volatile, especially copper. With prices for copper scrap topping record levels, many handlers of the commodity express a mixture of amazement, befuddlement and concern about the short-and long-term...

Growing strong.(demand forecast of old corrugated containers)
June 1, 2006... With the price of old corrugated containers (OCC) at its healthiest level in months, the overall market for fiber is steady and showing signs of strength in some grades. The price of OCC jumped $5 per ton in the Midwest in early May, to...

Plastics cooling off.(plastic markets go down)
June 1, 2006... As the weather heats up, demand and pricing for secondary plastics appears to be cooling off. However, some recyclers who handle the material note that this is typical for plastic markets. "Generally speaking, most [grades] are going down,"...

GreenMan posts $15 mil. loss.(TIRES)
June 1, 2006... Scrap tire recycler GreenMan Technologies, Lynnfield, Mass., has announced its financials for the year ended Sept. 30, 2005. According to GreenMan CFO Chuck Coppa, the company recorded an aggregate net loss of $15.2 million. In fiscal year...

OHIO DNR awards grants.(Ohio Department of Natural Resources finances tire recycling)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Division of Recycling & Litter Prevention has awarded nearly $1.5 million in grants to boost scrap tire recycling in the state. The grants range from $75,000 to $350,000, depending on the...

Plastic bottles to increase share of beverage market.(PLASTICS)
June 1, 2006... Production of packaged beverages in the United States will approach 39 billion gallons in 2010, resulting in $19.7 billion in demand, according to the Freedonia Group, a Cleveland-based market research firm. The Freedonia Group study...

ISRI approves electronics recycling operating principles.(Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, best practices)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries Inc. (ISRI) board of directors has unanimously approved the association's new Electronics Recycling Operating Practices. ISRI's Electronics Recycling Council has worked with the U.S....

Metech ADDS processing line.(Metech International installs machinery)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... Electronics recycler Metech International has added a new processing line at its Worcester, Mass., facility. According to Metech, the line will help it better serve its customers by providing high-volume product destruction and material...

CMRA committee tackles ADC issue.(Construction Materials Recycling Association on alternative daily cover )(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... At its recent teleconference, the ADC Committee of the Construction Materials Recycling Association (CMRA) decided to support a plan to provide the scientific data to show the safety and usefulness of alternative daily cover (ADC) made from...

Green building goes mainstream.(C&D NEWS)
June 1, 2006... Preliminary results of a McGraw-Hill Construction/National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) survey have indicated that there has been a 20 percent increase in 2005 among those in the home building community who are focusing their attention...

Massdevelopment sells lot for C&D recycling plant.(construction and demolition, Devens Recycling Center LLC)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... MassDevelopment, the finance and development agency for the commonwealth of Massachusetts, has sold a parcel of land that will be used to open and operate a construction and demolition recycling facility. Devens Recycling Center LLC,...

Jewell celebrates grand opening.(EQUIPMENT REPORT)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... Jewell Attachments has opened its new, 60,000-square-foot manufacturing plant in the Portland, Ore., suburb of Tualatin. Customers, dealers, vendors, suppliers and personnel from Jewell's parent company Paladin attended the opening day...

Nexgen introduces RAZ-R mobile shear.(EQUIPMENT REPORT)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... NexGen Baling Sytems, a division of Veron, Ala.-based Marathon Equipment Co., has introduced the Raz-R line of mobile shears. The 81,000-pound Raz-R is available in six models with a cutting force range of 600 to 1,800 tons. The shears have...

Global Shredding adds Sennebogen material handlers.(Sennebogen North America uses scrap handlers from Sennebogen North America)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... Global Shredding Technologies, an auto-shredding facility that operates within the Gerdau Ameristeel mill in Baldwin, Fla., added three 850 M Series scrap handlers from Sennebogen North America, Charlotte, N.C., during the summer of 2005. ...

Command posts: the leadership baton has passed to Keith Ristau and Mike McCracken at Oregon's Far West Fibers.(Cover story)(Company overview)
June 1, 2006... Since it was established in 1980, Far West Fibers Inc. (FWF) has grown and adapted to the changing recycling scene it is part of in and around Portland, Ore., and the Pacific Northwest. Under the leadership of John Drew, who began with the...

Treasure trove: precious metals are zooming to values that may soon have recyclers seeking buried treasure.(COMMODITY FOCUS)
June 1, 2006... Wherever the price settles out, the supply-and-demand picture for platinum group metals (PGMs) says the catalyst market will thrive in the immediate and longer-term future. One key statistic to watch is whether demand, especially from new...

Safe travels: JMK Fibers upgrades its plant to handle the export market's demand for recovered paper grades.(MRF SERIES)
June 1, 2006... 0n the surface, one bale of OCC looks pretty much the same as another. But to assume that all bales are alike or that their differences are largely unimportant is to miss a golden opportunity. This kind of thinking and hard-nosed analysis may...

Thirsty consumer: Mohawk Industries quietly helps recycle America's empty beverage bottles.(plastic beverage bottles)
June 1, 2006... Recycling advocates can rightly point out that too many discarded PET bottles e winding up in trash cans or along highways and sidewalks where they are trampled underfoot. Ironically, a healthy percentage of the PET bottles actually...

Shopping list: by pondering these six FAQs prior to buying a scrap handler, recyclers can avoid buyer's remorse.(frequently asked questions)
June 1, 2006... The purchase of a scrap handling machine is a major one. For smaller scrap recyclers, buying just one machine represents a major investment, while the productivity and competitiveness of larger firms can ride on making the right decisions when...

Amped up: electric-powered material handlers may fit some scrap applications.(SCRAP HANDLING EQUIPMENT FOCUS)
June 1, 2006... The profitability of any scrap processing operation is a direct function of the scrap processing cost. Considering the energy costs today, a considerable portion of a scrap recycler's processing cost is related to the cost of energy. A way...

Next stop: just as equipment makers adjust to EPA Tier 3 emissions standards, Tier 4 deadlines will begin to hit.(Environmental Protection Agency, scrap handling equipment)
June 1, 2006... Manufacturers of off-road equipment such as scrap handlers have spent part of their time this decade making sure that the machines they offer will meet Tier 3 emissions standards established by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)....

Disassembly line: at a time when many electronics recyclers incorporate some degree of shredding into their business models, Intercon Solutions is focused solely on demanufacturing.(Intercon Solutions)(Company overview)
June 1, 2006... Shredding can offer a cost-effective processing solution for end-of-life electronics. However, the process doesn't always ensure that electronics recyclers will yield high-quality secondary materials of optimal value. While demanufacturing can...

Talk of the town: recyclers gathered in Vegas in early April for the ISRI 2006 Convention & Exhibition.
June 1, 2006... Reflecting the strong market for most grades of scrap metal, attendance at the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries Inc. (ISRI) 2006 Convention & Exposition in Las Vegas this spring hit a record number. According to ISRI, attendance at...

Silver is the new green.(metal cans usage growth and recycling forecast and trends)
June 1, 2006... Consumer perception of the metal can is highly positive. Canned food and beverages are seen as a time-tested and highly dependable method safely and efficiently packaging products consumed on a daily basis. Cans stack easily on store...

Clearing the air: scrupulous scrap metal processors can work to overcome wider industry ethics issues.(COMMENTARY)
June 1, 2006... Many companies that manufacture metal products can rightfully ask themselves several questions about the scrap processors they use, including: Are they getting paid for the correct amount for their scrap metal? How do their organizations audit...

ISRI bestows Lifetime Achievement Awards.(PEOPLE)(Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries Inc)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries Inc. (ISRI) bestowed Lifetime Achievement Awards to Lee Hummelstein, Barry Hunter and Sheldon Tauben during the 2006 ISRI Convention & Exposition in Las Vegas in early April. Hummelstein, former...

Sennebogen adds Tom Skodack to sales staff.(appointment of Tom Skodack)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... Sennebogen LLC, Charlotte, N.C., has appointed Tom Skodack to the position of regional sales manager for the Western United States and Mexico. Skodack has more than 18 years in the material handling business. "He brings a wealth of...

In memoriam: Keith Foster.(PEOPLE)(Obituary)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... Keith Foster, the founder of Keith Manufacturing Co. and related companies, passed away at age 83 April 15 following a short battle with cancer. He is survived by his wife Rose Foster; sons, Mark Foster, Steve Foster, Kevin Bryans, Don...

Calendar.
June 1, 2006... June 12-15 Managing Waste in the Wide Open Spaces, Albuquerque, N.M., New Mexico Recycling Coalition and New Mexico Roadrunner Chapter of the Solid Waste Association of North America, (503) 983-4470 or English@recyclenewmexico.com ...

International Baler TR-830.(PRODUCTS)
June 1, 2006... * Entry-level two-ram baler provides many of the same features found on IBO's larger two-ram/ balers * Delivers more automation than traditional horizontal balers * Wire tie system, bale release door and full bale ejection standard ...

Liebherr "generation 6" wheel loaders.(PRODUCTS)
June 1, 2006... * Available in models L 566 and L 580, which replace the L 564 and the L 580 models * Include travel drive with Liebherr's 2plus2 technology * Equipped with Tier 3-compliant engines. * Cab is 28 percent larger than on earlier...

BTI SH series hydraulic shears.(PRODUCTS)
June 1, 2006... * High production, low-maintenance * Feature a large bore hydraulic cylinder and an exclusive speed/regeneration valve * Guide slide puck system reduces jaw stress and helps to reduce jamming * Added front blade is said to...

Economizer ESS series shredder.(PRODUCTS)
June 1, 2006... * Available in four models--ESS 850, 1200, 1500 and 2000--with feed openings ranging from 47.3 inches by 35.4 inches to 55.9 inches by 82.7 inches and drive capacities ranging from 50 hp to 150 hp * Designed for reducing large *...

Morbark 4600XL wood hog.(PRODUCTS)
June 1, 2006... * Hammermill grinder is 14 percent larger than its predecessor with a tip swing of 36 inches * Features a 60-inch in-feed and power options up to 860-hp * Includes an internal planetary drive feed wheel with no chains and sprockets for...

Link-belt 700 LX.(PRODUCTS)
June 1, 2006... * Tracked hydraulic excavator weighs in at 152,600 pounds; mass excavator version weighs in at 153,700 pounds * Features a Tier 3-compliant, 425-hp, six-cylinder Isuzu engine * Equipped with the Inte-LX computer system that monitors...

Allied waste is on the watch.(BACK PAGE)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... The Elderly Services Team of Naperville, Ill., together with the city's residential waste hauler Allied Waste Services held a brief ceremony in late March to introduce On the Watch, a senior safety program, and to recognize the Allied driver...

Red Bull gives you art.(BACK PAGE)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... Red Bull is promoting the innovative reuse of its cans by sponsoring a 2006 nationwide search for artwork " made from the slim containers. Selected works will be displayed in one of three public exhibitions this fall in Atlanta, Dallas and...

Wausau Paper goes above and "Beyond".(BACK PAGE)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... Wasua Paper, Harrodsburg, Ky., has announced that it will be featured in the Platinum Television Group's series "Business & Beyond" in a segment on certified Green Seal recipients as part of the show's Models of Excellence series. The...