Recycling Today articles from May 2003

Recycling Today archives from May 2003

Epidemic proportions.(influence of SARS)(Editorial)
May 1, 2003... Economic forecasts--oven recycling-specific ones--from the past several months have almost universally been issued with the caveat that predicted prices and consumption patterns are subject to change completely depending on the military...

Mallin Bros. Co. celebrates 75 years. (Scrap Industry News).(Mallin Brothers Company Inc.)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... 2003 marks the 75th anniversary year for Mallin Bros. Co. Inc., Kansas City, Mo., a nonferrous scrap recycler with several wire chopping lines. The company's origins trace back to 1928 to a horse-drawn wagon led through the streets of...

Crossroads region a minerals key. (Scrap Industry News).(Central Asia)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Deposing Saddam Hussein was the challenge facing coalition forces, but forging stability in Iraq, Afghanistan and neighboring central Asia may prove even more daunting, says Dr. Nozar Alaolmolki. The central Asian scholar addressed attendees of...

RT publisher takes message board action. (Scrap Industry News).(Recycling Today publisher GIE Media)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... GIE Media Inc., parent company of Recycling Today Media Group, has taken legal action to ensure the integrity of message boards associated with its Web sites. The action was in response to activities on the www.pctonline.com message boards...

Recycling overwhelms Fort Worth. (Municipal Recycling).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Fort Worth, Texas, launched a new recycling program March 31. Better-than-expected participation during the first week led to a few glitches, however. According to the Fort Worth Star Telegram, additional work crews were shifted from...

N.Y. politician introduces tire recycling bill. (Municipal Recycling).(Robert Prentiss)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... New York State Assemblyman Robert Prentiss (R-Colonie) has proposed legislation that would enact the Waste Tire Management and Recycling Act of 2003 to fund state efforts to abate existing scrap tire stockpiles; develop in-state markets for...

Pennsylvania offers recycling grants. (Municipal Recycling).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Kathleen A. McGinty, acting secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, has announced the restoration of Pennsylvania's municipal recycling grant program. The DEP is offering $20 million this year to help local...

Hawaii opens EPA-funded recycling plant. (Municipal Recycling).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... The Hawaii Island Economic Development Board and Recycle Hawaii have announced; the grand opening of the "Big Island's" first solid waste recycling and reuse center. A $400,000 grant from the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency,...

Margin call. (Ferrous).(scrap metal)
May 1, 2003... Ferrous scrap dealers have been happy to see a more margin-friendly price to work with in the past few months. The difficulty, however, is finding enough material to take advantage of the friendly price climate. The run-up in prices has...

Red metal rising. (Nonferrous).(copper prices)
May 1, 2003... More so than at any time since the first Gulf War, forecasting a commodity price has become particularly tricky. Ronald McGrainor, a senior vice president at the Hudson, Ohio, office of futures merchant Refco LLC, has developed a formula for...

Leaner appetite. (Paper).(recycled paper market)
May 1, 2003... The domestic consumption of recovered fiber declined over the first two months as mills continue to tighten inventories and produce less material. According to recent figures from the American Forest and Paper Association, Washington,...

Mill buyer award created. (Paper).(recycled paper purchasing)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... The Recycling Today Media Group, in coordination with its Paper Recycling Conference & Trade Show, will be presenting a "Buyer of the Year" award to a selected mill buyer of recovered paper. The award's criteria, nomination process and...

Texas Agency signs contract. (Tires/Rubber).(Texas Commission on Environmental Quality contract with Merrick Construction Co.)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) has signed a contract with a Louisiana company to process and recycle nearly 30 million abandoned tires at Gibson Recycling Inc., Atlanta, Texas. "We are confident this contract will...

U.S. Plastic Lumber Corp. still in the red after restructuring. (Plastics).
May 1, 2003... U.S. Plastic Lumber Corp. (USPL), Boca Raton, Fla., has announced its unaudited operating results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2002. The results pertain solely to USPL's continuing Plastic Lumber operations, as the...

Fuel for thought. (C&D News).(wood recycling options)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Recyclers of demolition wood must weigh the options of relying on the biomass fuel market versus some of the other wood recycling options, according to the University of Florida's Tim Townsend. The C&D recycling researcher spoke to attendees of...

C&D Recycler boosts circulation. (C&D News).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... C&D Recycler magazine, a publication of the Recycling Today Media Group, Cleveland, has announced a 20 percent boost in the circulation of its bi-monthly magazine. Effective in January 2003, the magazine's circulation was increased by 20...

RAA announces new service. (Electronics Recycling).(Recycle America Alliance L.L.C. )
May 1, 2003... Recycle America Alliance L.L.C. (RAA) has announced a new service affiliate to enhance its delivery of electronics recycling services in the southeastern United States. Quicksilver Recycling Services, Tampa, Fla., will provide...

Colorado state agency releases report on computer recycling. (Electronics Recycling).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... The state of Colorado's Governor's Office of Energy Management and Conservation (OEMC) has produced a report that summarizes 15 statewide computer collection events the department co-sponsored last year. The report, "Colorado Computer...

Niton goes remote. (Equipment Report).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Niton LLC, Billerica, Mass., a leading manufacturer of portable x-ray fluorescence (XRF) instrumentation for alloy analysis, has announced the production release of wireless communication for its new generation XLi and XLt alloy analysis...

Riverside engineering formed. (Equipment Report).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Wear parts company Riverside Products, Moline, Ill., and Newell Riverside, the automobile shredder manufacturer based in San Antonio, have merged to form Riverside Engineering, which will be based in San Antonio. "Our products a re some of...

Buyers gGuide correction. (Equipment Report).(Brief Article)(Correction Notice)
May 1, 2003... In its 2003 Equipment and Services Buyers Guide listings, Recycling Today inadvertently left equipment supplier Sierra International Machinery Inc., Bakersfield, Calif., out of several key product categories. In addition to offering...

Schorch motors sold into U.S. (Equipment Report).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... American Contex Corp., New York, has announced the sale of four of its specialized motors as part of a sale of shredder systems to Hugo Neu Schnitzer scrap recycling facilities. According to Anita Favaro of American Contex, the 9,000 hp...

Sharp focus: focusing on several speciality scrap markets has spurred the growth of Pittsburgh-based AMG Resources Corp. (Cover Story).(Company Profile)
May 1, 2003... Allan M. Goldstein grew up in New Jersey admiring the incredible work ethic of his father, who serviced scrap metal generators working most of his life from his scrap collection truck. His father's hard work helped put Goldstein through both...

The squeeze: steel mill buyers are feeling the squeeze of higher secondary commodity prices. (Commodity Focus).
May 1, 2003... Ferrous scrap dealers have been enjoying elevated secondary commodity prices thanks to the swell in overseas demand. As steelmaking continues to globalize, increasingly, what's good for domestic scrap dealers is not necessarily good for...

Magnetic magic: the latest generation of post-shredder magnetic separators can accomplish a great deal. (Sorting & Separating Equipment Focus).(recycling)
May 1, 2003... For the past several years I have been monitoring, from my European perspective, the evolution of trends and thinking of U.S. car shredder operators concerning their post-shredder systems. The European perspective is characterized by a...

Automation plus: recyclers continue to explore automated processing techniques offered by equipment makers. (Sorting & Separating Equipment Focus).
May 1, 2003... The automation of sorting and separating functions at materials recovery facilities (MRFs) has been underway for a number of years now. The trend is by no means abating, with one of the highest-volume MRF operators--Waste Management Inc.,...

Sifting through: knowing the products to be marketed can help C&D recyclers make screening choices. (Sorting & Separating Equipment Focus).
May 1, 2003... Designing an effective mixed C&D debris processing system should start with market demand and work backward, determining the number and variety of screens needed to produce the desired product mix. Establishing acceptable cleanliness levels and...

Seeking control: franchise rights to control generated material are shaping up as a recycling battleground. (Solid Waste Update).
May 1, 2003... With markets providing one set of challenges, some recyclers are also now seeing potential problems with the issue of franchise agreements. The concept of franchising has taken hold in many parts of the U.S. For local government entities, the...

Road rules: truckers of scrap will have to pay attention to cargo securement regulations. (Transportation Series).
May 1, 2003... The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) will begin enforcing safety regulations for transporting crushed cars. The impact this will have on scrap recyclers who ship or receive the material is uncertain. No one contests that transporting...

In motion: Canadian metal exports down, dollar value up in 2002. (Canadian Market Report).
May 1, 2003... For the Canadian recycled metal industry, 2002 was a positive year. "Business is getting better, particularly for guys in ferrous metals," says Len Shaw, executive director of CARI (Canadian Association of Recycling Industries). "There is a...

David J. Joseph Co. (People).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... The Metals Group of David J. Joseph Co. (DJJ), Cincinnati, has added Kris Hammond to its staff. Hammond will concentrate on providing products and services to the aluminum foundry industry, including shipping aluminum alloy, remelt secondary...

Marathon Equipment Co. (People).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... The board of Dover Corp./Dover Industries has appointed Gordon C. Shaw Sr. as president of Marathon Equipment Co. Inc., Vernon, Ala., and its subsidiaries. Gordon, a 20-year veteran of the waste equipment industry, began his career at...

Colonial Metals Co. (People).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... Michael R. Mann has been promoted to president and chief operating officer of Colonial Metals Co., Columbia, Pa. Mann joined Colonial, a maker of brass, bronze and aluminum ingots, in 1969 and has served the corporation in many capacities,...

Calendar.
May 1, 2003... MAY 19-22 Electronics Recycling Summit, Boston, International Association of Electronics Recyclers, (888) 989-4237 MAY 25-28 BIR Spring Convention, Oslo, Bureau of International Recycling, +32 2 627...

Grobian grinder from Vecoplan LLC. (Products).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... * Model VGZ 250 low-speed double-shaft grinder * Designed for * MRFs, transfer stations and high volume recycling centers * Processes up to 50 tons of bulk waste per hour. * With 400 horsepower and a vertical feed hopper...

John Deere crawler loaders. (Products).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... * C-Series II models 655C and 755C * Feature an optimized power management system that enhances the engine/ transmission performance match * Steering and pedal movement are more precisely matched, allowing a broader range of pedal...

Hagglunds compact CB drive. (Products).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2003... * A range of hydraulic motors combining space economy with high torque * Suitable for heavy-duty applications, such as shredders, feeders, roll mills * Easily mounted on the driven shaft or ordered with splines for a close connection...