Recycling Today articles from October 2003

Recycling Today archives from October 2003

Divergent views on China.(Editor's Focus; metals industry)
October 1, 2003... Just a mile or so from this office, a used hot rolling mill is being dismantled and shipped to Shenyang, China, for reassembly. The mill equipment, previously operated by LTV Corp. and its predecessor companies, will not go back into production...

Conference offers ferrous scrap views.(Scrap Industry News)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... Gorham Technologies, Gorham, Maine, is preparing for its eighth international conference focusing on ferrous scrap, DRI, HBI and pig iron used in steel production. The "Market Outlook for Iron & Steel Scrap and Scrap Alternatives"...

CMC lands carrier business.(Scrap Industry News)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... Commercial Metals Co. (CMC), Dallas, has entered into a multi-year contact with heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) equipment maker Carrier Corp., Farmington, Conn., to handle scrap generated at the company's U.S. manufacturing...

Illinois scrap firm expands into badger state.(Scrap Industry News)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... Cleveland Corp., a scrap recycler based in Zion, Ill., has expanded north into Wisconsin with the purchase of a recycling plant in Racine. The 50,000-square-foot ferrous and nonferrous recycling and processing operation will be completely...

Missouri study focuses on white goods.(Scrap Industry News)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... A 17-page report commissioned by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources has identified problems and potential solutions relating to white goods recycling. The study was based on appliance recycling patterns in 2000, a year in which...

New technology may be too good.(Advertisement; glass recycling)
October 1, 2003... Trenton, N.J.-A small company in Lakewood, N.J. has developed a process that can rid glass of antimony (lead solder), lead and phosphorus. The process is so effective that the company is fast becoming the processing facility of choice for...

NYC issues proposal.(Municipal Recycling; metal, plastic,glass)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... The New York City Department of Sanitation has announced that November 12 will be the deadline for contractors interested in submitting proposals for accepting, processing and marketing New York City's metal, plastic and, eventually, glass. ...

City considers dropping diaper recycling program.(Municipal Recycling)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... Santa Clarita, Calif., is discussing halting its diaper-recycling program and will vote on the matter in late September. Roughly 225 households have participated in the program since it began as a six-month pilot program in November 2002....

Scrap spike.(Ferrous; steel)
October 1, 2003... Peter Marcus of World Steel Dynamics, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., has forecasted a steelmaking metallics shortage before, and he's doing it again. Speaking at the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries Inc. (ISRI) Commodity Roundtables,...

Up and away.(Nonferrous; copper prices)
October 1, 2003... Copper trading at more than $1.00 per pound is hard for most metals traders to remember, but it could be "Back to the Future" if a forecast presented at the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries Inc. (ISRI) Commodity Roundtables is correct....

Down the slide.(recycled paper)
October 1, 2003... The domestic consumption of recovered fiber continues its sharp decline. According to the American Forest and Paper Association, Washington, domestic paper stock use dipped by 4.2 percent for the first seven months of the year to 19.5 million...

Recycled Plastics Co. makes acquisition.(Plastics)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... North American Technologies Group Inc. (NATK), Houston, has purchased a 200,000-sq. ft. manufacturing facility on 40 acres near Marshall, Texas. NATK will build two new manufacturing lines to produce TieTek composite railroad ties. The...

N.Y. ratifies scrap tire law.(Tires)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... New York State has enacted a law geared toward cleaning up the scrap tires in the state. The law has been designed to create a scrap tire fund that will be used to process scrap tires and to develop end markets for the material. According...

Filled with unleaded.(C&D News; lead paint waste)
October 1, 2003... The Construction Materials Recycling Association (CMRA), Lisle, III., reports that initial results are in from an Army Corps of Engineers' study on lead-based paint (LBP), which the CMRA helped to fund. The study is on concrete structures...

Advocates claim bill gutted.(Electronics Recycling)
October 1, 2003... Some organizations have expressed disappointment that Senate Bill 20, passed by the California Legislature and signed by Gov. Gray Davis, does not require more effort from electronics manufacturers. The Computer Take Back Campaign, a...

Reverse logistics firms partner for electronics projects.(Electronics Recycling)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... Image Microsystems Inc. (IMI), a reverse logistics, recycling and remarketing company specializing in processing electronic technology equipment, has partnered with ATC Logistics & Electronics (ATCLE), a provider of logistics and electronics...

CP Mfg. buys MSS sorting line.(Equipment Report)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... Recycling equipment maker CP Manufacturing Inc., National City, Calif., has acquired high-tech sorting equipment maker MSS Inc. of Nashville, Tenn. "We can now offer our customers fully automated material recovery systems with a single...

Metso Minerals unleashes spider.(Equipment Report)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... Metso Minerals, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, says its four-pin spider rotor has generated multiple sales thus far in 2003. The most recent has been to DMS Shredding of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and will be installed in DMS Shredding's Metso Minerals 6080...

Ohio Magnetics offers Mag packages.(Equipment Report)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... Ohio Magnetics, Maple Heights, Ohio, has introduced the new Hydra-Mag Package, used to power DC electro magnets from the hydraulic system of mobile cranes or excavators. The unit includes a five-kilowatt (KW) generator and a CDS magnet...

Home field advantage: the crumb rubber of Recovery Technologies Group Inc. is used in fields of play and beyond, with an important boost from Ford Motor Co.
October 1, 2003... For the last several decades, the consensus has been that there is a scrap tire surplus, with most states either currently or formerly having been plagued with scrap tire stockpiles. Contrarily, tire recyclers often say that an inability to...

Steady diet: keeping a shredder evenly fed is among the priorities for productive auto shredder operators.(Auto Shredding Update)
October 1, 2003... Auto shredders are well established as important processing systems for the recycling of automobiles, large appliances and other obsolete metallic scrap. Although the basic technology has now been around for several decades, recyclers and...

Moving out of the booster seat.(Welcome; recycling)
October 1, 2003... Considering the status of "buy-recycled" programs was something that, I must admit, I had not done recently, until asked to do so by a recent caller. The caller, doing some research for a presentation, asked whether such programs are...

Fine tuned: Metro Detroit's curbside stream yields desirable paper grades for Great Lakes International Recycling.
October 1, 2003... The finer points of tuning up an engine until it is just right are as well known in the Detroit area as probably anywhere else in the U.S. The cradle of the automotive industry has also turned out to be a pioneer in northern U.S. single-stream...

Throwing its weight around: the tons of scrap paper bound for China have made it a major global player in just a few years.
October 1, 2003... As the seemingly insatiable demand for recovered fiber in China in Satiable grows, domestic paper and paper board mills are having a difficult time trying to compete for tonnage. The idea that the domestic market has and always will be the...

A curbed appetite: municipal officials need continuing assurances that curbside recycling programs make fiscal sense.
October 1, 2003... The accounting scandals that exposed the profits of companies such as Enron and Worldcom as being dubiously calculated shows that creativity and mathematics can indeed go hand-in-hand. Weilding a calculator with a pre-determined goal in...

To the recycling industry.(Sierra International balers)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... Sierra International Machinery is a family owned and operated business dedicated to providing the very best in processing equipment and service support to our customers. We are more than just an equipment distributor, but are in fact recyclers...

High capacity baling of recyclable materials.
October 1, 2003... Evergreen Paper Recycling, located in Fort Worth, Texas, was using a typical, two-ram baler to bale approximately 5,000 to 6,000 tons per month of recyclable paper. This process required six days a week using two shifts. In an effort to be more...

A faster baler means more profit.
October 1, 2003... Mario Jurcik, owner of Dupage Paper Stock, Streamwood, III., has 30 years of experience in the paper recycling industry. During his career, which has included stints with Waste Management and Container Corp., he's worked with numerous balers....

Building a better bale with Sierra.(Sierra International Machinery balers)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... When it came time for Allen Stein of Gulf Coast Recycling to select a baler for his new high-volume Houston paper-packing operation, he surveyed the baler market and settled on a Sierra International Machinery Macpresse model. "The machine...

Sierra/Macpresse: one to grow on.(baler)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... Toronto-based Metro Waste Paper Recovery Inc. continues to grow. More than 25 years ago, AI and Anthony Metauro began collecting scrap paper from garbage bins using a pick-up truck. Today, their business is a $140-million-per-year recycling...

Telling secrets: mill buyers share their secrets to success at a 2003 Paper Recycling Conference panel discussion.
October 1, 2003... Panelists at the "Secrets of Successful Mill Buying" seminar of the 2003 Paper Recycling Conference & Trade Show, held in Chicago this June, agreed that mill buying is largely transparent. However, they did stress certain principles that may...

Unwelcome wax: the presence of waxed corrugated boxes continues to muddy the paper recycling stream.
October 1, 2003... Many paper and paperboard mills are extending the types of recovered fiber they can take in, and as they do so, quality issues can crop up. One of the most difficult materials to handle is wax-coated or wax-impregnated corrugated containers....

Beyond throughput: there are considerations besides throughput volume when selecting document shredding equipment.
October 1, 2003... If you are in the market for new or used Mobile Document Shredding (MDS) equipment, you need to understand your options. In the last decade, the MDS industry has gone through some major advancements. This alone makes it very important to...

Staying the course: one of America's oldest curbside programs in Islip, N.Y., sticks with what works.(recycling)
October 1, 2003... Curbside recycling in America may not yet be old enough to have created multi-volume histories of the origins and evolution of the practice. But should a team of writers start working on such a publishing project, their research will certainly...

Fraying at the edges: the condition of domestic wire chopping has some processors on edge.(Wire Chopping List)
October 1, 2003... During a previous decade that experienced a telecommunications boom, the processing of scrap wire and cable seemed like a sensible niche for scrap recyclers to focus on. Unfortunately, a double whammy has since buffeted this scrap...

Data trail: software can help recyclers large and small to manage their businesses more efficiently.(Computer Software For Recyclers)
October 1, 2003... Data. Scrap metal recyclers have plenty of it to track during a typical business day, from inventories to freight charges and even rolling stock. The data trail starts at the scale house with incoming scrap material and grows in complexity as...

Thinking in reverse.(Transportation Series; electronics recycling)
October 1, 2003... What to do with obsolete electronic equipment has grown as an issue as Americans continue to show an endless desire to use these devices at home and at work. The answer for both organizations and individuals is increasingly to recycle the...

Learning curve: pilot programs and test events mark the first steps in creating an electronics recycling systems.(Electronics Recycling Series)
October 1, 2003... There is little dispute among all parties concerned (electronics recyclers, solid waste department officials and electronics manufacturers, among others) that America's basements, garages and corporate storage facilities hold an abundance of...

Wizard technologies foam colorant.(Products)
October 1, 2003... * Patent pending foam colorant and coating technology for wood fiber * Versatility enables users to open new markets in sand, stone, compost, rubber chips, slag and more * Reduces cost by reducing water requirements, handling, drying...

American baler improves auto-tier.(Products)
October 1, 2003... * Cylinder-driven auto-tier uses hydraulically driven needles * Eliminates excess mechanical com ponents and moving parts for decreased maintenance *Powered by the baler's existing hydraulic system *Designed for fully automated...

Stanley labounty piercing tip.(Products)
October 1, 2003... * Longer-lasting piercing tips designed for the MSD Mobile Shear models 50 to 200 * A new proprietary heat treatment process extends tip life * Field testing indicates a three to five time increase in overall durability compared to...

Caterpillar H140D S hydraulic hammer.(Products)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... * Ideally matched to Cat 325C and 330C hydraulic excavators and comparably sized machines * Operating weight of 5,182 pounds * Can be equipped with seven tools for maximum versatility * Redesigned operating cycle improves...

Calendar.(Brief Article)(Calendar)
October 1, 2003... OCT. 14-16 SWANA Wastecon, St. Louis, Solid Waste Assoc. of North America, (301) 585-2898 OCT. 17-19 ISRI Fall Membership Conference, Washington, D.C., Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries Inc., (202) 737-1770 OCT. 20 CARI...

Correction.(Classifieds)(Correction Notice)
October 1, 2003... An ad for Colmar USA that appeared on page 10 of the September issue of Recycling Today was mis-printed. The Recycling Today Media Group regrets the error and apologizes for any confusion it may have caused. A correct version of this ad appears...

Recycle to fight breast cancer.(Back Page)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... Recycle for Breast Cancer has announced a new program to benefit the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. The Recycle for Breast Cancer program collects spent toner cartridges and prepares them for recycling, raising money to help find...

NC State and Waste Industries 'Chuck It'.(Back Page)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... Waste Industries USA Inc., a Raleigh, N.C.-based solid waste services company, has announced a partnership arrangement with the North Carolina State University Office of Waste Reduction and Recycling. The "Chuck It" recycling program is the...

American Iron announces winning sculptures.(Back Page)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... American Iron, Minneapolis, has announced the winners of its third annual metal sculpture competition, which is held in conjunction with the Minneapolis Aquatennial Celebration. All artwork is made from scrap metal collected and made...

Forward motion: wheeled Fuchs scrap handlers keep metal moving at Sand Springs Metal Processing.
October 1, 2003... Operations manager Brian McCuistion has to make sure ferrous scrap is loaded, un loaded, properly stored and then properly blended at the Sand Springs Metal Processing Corp. (SSMPC) yard in Sand Springs, Okla. His job has become more manageable...