Recycling Today articles from October 2005

Recycling Today archives from October 2005

Another call for assistance.(Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries Inc. )(Construction Materials Recycling Association )(Editorial)
October 1, 2005... It was just in this year's February issue of Recycling Today that Group Publisher Jim Keefe urged our readers to consider how they could help the survivors of a deadly tsunami that struck half-a-world away from where most of our subscribers...

Schnitzer to acquire Southeastern scrap dealer.(SCRAP INDUSTRY NEWS)
October 1, 2005... Schnitzer Steel Industries Inc., Portland, Ore., is using a wholly owned subsidiary to buy most of the assets of Regional Recycling LLC, Atlanta, for $65.5 million in cash and the assumption of certain liabilities. Regional operates 10...

ISRI checks on status of scrap industry in hurricane damaged area.(Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... While still early in the cleanup process, a preliminary report from the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI), Washington, estimates that 30 of its member company locations may have been damaged in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. ...

Midland makes acquisition.(SCRAP INDUSTRY NEWS)
October 1, 2005... Midland Davis Corp. has acquired Pekin Recycling, a paper and scrap metal recycling company in central Illinois. Midland Davis, based in Moline, Ill., also has a brokerage office in St. Louis. The company has been recycling paper, ferrous...

SERDC arrives on southern scene.(Southeast Recycling Development Council)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... A group of recycling industry participants has announced the formation of the Southeast Recycling Development Council (SERDC), based in Cantonment, Fla. In a news release, the council refers to itself as "a regional awareness group focused...

CRRA, FCR expand with new facility.(Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority)(FCR Inc)(regional recycling center)
October 1, 2005... The Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority and FCR Inc., a subsidiary of Casella Waste Systems, Inc., has unveiled plans to build a new regional recycling center (RRC). The 70 cities and towns served by CRRA's Mid-Connecticut Project also can...

Renewed strength.(ferrous scrap prices and supply)
October 1, 2005... The rapid slide of ferrous scrap prices that marked the late spring and early summer months has begun to reverse itself as summer turns to fall. Shippers of ferrous scrap enjoyed a healthy increase in mill and foundry prices paid for their...

Steelworkers ratify collective agreement at IPSCO subsidiary.(FERROUS)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... United Steelworkers at the Wheat City Metals scrap metal processing facility in Regina, Sasketchewan, have ratified a three-year collective agreement, ending a dispute that included a seven-week lockout in April and May. The IPSCO...

Aluminum remains in demand.(NONFERROUS)
October 1, 2005... Coming from all parts of the world, solid demand for aluminum (and aluminum scrap) is keeping pricing strong and scrap flows fluid. Speakers from different segments of the aluminum industry addressed attendees of the Aluminum Roundtable at...

The autumn blues.(PAPER)
October 1, 2005... The first few weeks of autumn have not been kind to the old corrugated containers (OCC) market. "It's been very sad for OCC," says one Midwestern packer. "Nobody's coming out of the weeds--everybody's kind of hiding back, waiting to see...

Cascades closes paper machine.(paper machine facility closings)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Cascades, Kingsey Falls, Quebec, Canada, has announced plans to streamline activities at its Fine Papers Group operations in Thunder Bay, Ontario. The plan involves the closing of the No. 5 paper machine and converting operations. Along...

Smurfit, Kappa close to merger.(PAPER)
October 1, 2005... The merger of Ireland-based Jefferson Smurfit and Dutch firm Kappa Packaging is nearing conclusion, the Irish Times reports. Kappa Packaging, with annual sales of about 3 billion euros, produces containerboard, solid board, corrugated and...

Watertown Tire Recycling cleans up after fire.(tire recycling)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Watertown Tire Recycling (WTR), Watertown, Wis., has contracted with North Shore Environmental Construction, Germantown, Wis., to clean the site of a tire fire on WTR's property. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) had given...

Katrina, market conditions affect GreenMan production levels.(tire recycling operations)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... GreenMan Technologies Inc., based in Lynnfield, Mass., has completed several initiatives intended to improve the performance of its Southeastern tire recycling operations. "There is no higher priority within our corporation than...

Envirocycle, Nxtcycle merge.(ELECTRONICS RECYCLING)
October 1, 2005... Envirocycle Inc., based in Hallstead, Pa., and Nxtcycle Inc., headquartered in Mesa, Ariz., have merged to form Amandi Services (Asset Management and Disposition Services), creating "the first national e-waste recycling infrastructure,"...

Reccon event addresses electronics recycling.(Electronics Recycling)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Representatives from industry, government and academic institutions worldwide will assemble in Morgantown, W. Va., in late November for a conference on electronic scrap recycling. The Radisson Hotel and Conference Center is the site for...

Mass. ban on C&D to be implemented.(C & D NEWS)(Massachusetts, construction and demolition material disposal)
October 1, 2005... The Massachusetts ban on disposal, or transfer for disposal, of specific construction and demolition materials will probably be promulgated by October, according to the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). It will take...

Metso to acquire Texas Shredder.(EQUIPMENT REPORT)
October 1, 2005... Metso Minerals has acquired Texas Shredder Inc. (TSI), a supplier of metal shredder products headquartered in San Antonio. The sellers are a group of private investors led by Capital Southwest Corp., a venture capital investment company...

Genesis introduces multi-jaw attachment.(EQUIPMENT REPORT)
October 1, 2005... Genesis Attachments, Superior, Wis., has introduced the Logix Processor The multi-jawed attachment has both pulverizer and shear jaw sets. The attachment is available in four sizes to fit excavators in the 20-, 30-, 40- and 50-metric ton...

Lubo places seven TiTech sorters.(EQUIPMENT REPORT)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Lubo USA, the North American distributor of TiTech optical sorting equipment and Lubo screening equipment, has placed seven new TiTech units with recyclers in the United States. Recycle America Alliance (RAA) of Minneapolis has purchased...

System upgrade: Dale Johnson and MaSeR bring a new degree of separation to electronics recycling.(Materials Separation and Recovery corp.)
October 1, 2005... Advances in recycling, sorting and separating technology have been a part of the competitive landscape for decades. When a new system is deployed, it can be both a source of pride and anxiety for those who own it as well as a source of...

Wheeling and dealing: states approach scrap tire management and end market development in a number of ways.(COMMODITY FOCUS)
October 1, 2005... Many states have established fees and programs to manage scrap tire generation and to abate stockpiles within their borders. While the fees are generally levied on the sale of new tires, the percentage of the fee that is allocated to scrap tire...

Investors only: investing in efficient processing equipment has been necessary to stay in the North American wire chopping game.(WIRE CHOPPING UPDATE)
October 1, 2005... North American wire choppers continue to have hungry end markets for the processed copper and aluminum chops created by their production lines. Throughout this decade, though, the difficult part has been procuring the cable and wire scrap...

Finding a balance.(paper recycling companies)
October 1, 2005... Paper stock markets have been on a bit of a wild roller coaster ride throughout the past two years. Moving into the tail end of the year, markets seem to be calming somewhat. While some of the dynamics that helped propel pricing to higher...

World view: the long reach of Georgia-Pacific's Harmon Associates is beginning to extend beyond North America.(Company Profile)
October 1, 2005... Georgia-Pacific is a corporate name that most Americans find recognizable, which is why it is also a name that Harmon Associates turns to when striving for economies of scale. Harmon Associates, the scrap paper trading arm of...

Ironing out the specifics: better and clearer communication between suppliers and mills helps to avoid problems.
October 1, 2005... My journey started out about 15 years ago, in Portland, Ore. I had changed positions from a plant manager to an account rep for the region. I can remember buying my first load that had a problem when it arrived at the mill. The weather was...

A nimble player: size gives many companies heft. However, being smaller also offers opportunities, as Ralison International demonstrates.
October 1, 2005... The burgeoning market for recovered fiber in China has resulted in a tremendous boom for businesses capitalizing on the country's demand. One company that has carved out its own niche in the dynamic secondary paper trade occurring in China is...

Eve of (more) destruction: document destruction industry leaders discuss growth opportunities for their sector.(Panel Discussion)
October 1, 2005... Several leaders within the secure destruction industry gathered at the 2005 Annual Conference of the National Association for Information Destruction (NMD), Phoenix, for a one-hour discussion of the critical issues facing the industry and the...

High hopes: the skyscrapers of New York hold much of the opportunity for Metropolitan Paper Recycling Inc.(Company Profile)
October 1, 2005... As the nation's largest city and a global finance and banking center, New York offers an abundance of scrap paper that provides tonnage to dozens of competing recycling companies in the region. For office grades, the borough of Manhattan...

Municipal maneuvers: municipalities are looking for ways to boost the amount of material they collect, including high-value paper.(Editorial)
October 1, 2005... Municipal recycling programs are struggling to increase diversion rates to meet industry's demand for secondary raw materials without increasing the amount of money they can dedicate to educational and promotional programs. The American...

Paper and paper recycling associations.
October 1, 2005... 100% Recycled Paperboard Alliance 1331 F St., Washington, DC 20004. Ph: (877) 772-6200. Fax: (315) 635-1215. Web site: rpa100.com. lharrelson@rpa100.com. Lynn Harrelson. Aims to increase the use and labeling of 100 percent recycled...

Newer and better: new technologies are geared to help shredder operators garner higher-value materials for shipping.(AUTO SHREDDER TECHNOLOGY UPDATE)(Editorial)
October 1, 2005... Spurred partly by European recycling mandates as well as by the desire to increase profits, new sorting and separating technologies are changing the face of auto shredder downstream systems. Manufacturers and research firms from throughout...

Going high-tech: recyclers use custom software to improve their services to their generating customers.(COMPUTER SOFTWARE)
October 1, 2005... The scrap peddlers of yesterday might not recognize the industry if they could see it today. Long-gone is the horse-drawn cart: Today, even many recyclers whose companies could be considered small or mid-sized are handling hundreds of...

A new kind of software company.
October 1, 2005... From experience comes knowledge. For scrap recyclers looking for software customized for their industry, the story of George and David Kane and their creation of 21st Century Programming provides the comfort of knowing these two California...

Start to finish: the system put in place by Gold Circuit Inc. aims to cover electronics recycling from remarketing through shredding.(ELECTRONICS RECYCLING SERIES)
October 1, 2005... For the outsider, getting a handle on electronics recycling can be a difficult thing, as the term is used to describe a range of activities, from component reuse to material recovery. Off-lease or unwanted computer equipment comes in...

Detoured: already reeling from high fuel costs, how Hurricane Katrina will affect the transportation industry uncertain.(TRANSPORTATION FOCUS)
October 1, 2005... The disastrous impact of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and other areas of the Gulf Coast has created a tremendous amount of uncertainty for many companies. For the scrap recycling industry, while concerns about the loss of life were...

Marathon equipment makes appointments.(promotions)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Marathon Equipment Co. of Vernon, Ala., has announced the promotion of Joe Szany to director of international sales and the appointment of Chip Hall as sales manager for the Northeast region. Szany remains director of NexGen Baling &...

Calendar.(Calendar)
October 1, 2005... Oct. 19.22 2005 Fall Summit, Portland, Ore., Municipal Waste Management Association, www.usmayors.org/uscm/ mwma Oct. 23-25 BIR Fall Meeting, Milan, Italy, Bureau of International Recycling, +32 2 627 57 70 or bir@bir.org ...

NexGen Galaxy2R balers.(PRODUCTS)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... * Line of two-ram balers available in more than 50 models with wide or narrow charge boxes * Includes NexDoor, a horizontally mounted door that extends and retracts to serve as a bale separation door, bale release or bale clamp and also to...

Fuchs MHL 350.(fuchsusa)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... * Rubber-tired scrap handler * Includes a 0.8-cubic-yard grapple * Operating weight measures 69,450 pounds * Equipped with a 190-hp diesel Deutz BF6M 1013 EC engine and a 24-volt electrical system * Includes a single-circuit...

Vecoplan RG 42/60P XL Shredder.(PRODUCTS)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... * Designed specifically for secure document destruction * Offers cross-shredding in a single pass and delivers consistent shred size through screened output * Screen changes take approximately 10 minutes and allow the shred size to be...

Accent 470 tying system.(PRODUCTS)
October 1, 2005... * Simple, reliable, rugged, easy-to-maintain system * Simple design features fewer parts * No need for mechanical or hydraulic adjustments * Pivot-out knotter provides full and easy maintenance access with bale in place *...

Kawasaki ZV wheel loaders.(Loaders waste management)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... * Loaders available outfitted with special recycling and waste handling packages * Provide a safe, efficient, productive alternative to standard wheel loaders * Includes specialty buckets and tires along with factory-installed...

The whole package.(BACK PAGE)(recycled paperboxes won awards during National Paperbox Association's 55th Annual Packaging Competition)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Products made with 100 percent recycled paperboard packaging took home the rigid box best-in-show award and won 16 excellence awards and eight gold awards in the National Paperbox Association's (NPA) 55th Annual Packaging Competition, which was...

The great cartridge chase.(BACK PAGE)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Staples Inc., Framingham, Mass., and its retail superstore subsidiary have launched a toner cartridge recycling competition in cooperationg with Animal Planet's Jeff Corwin. In Staples' $25,000 Cartridge Chase, students collect empty ink...

Reduce, reuse, repackage.(Used CardboardBoxes.com)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Recycling Today readers who are planning a move in the near future may want to keep Used CardboardBoxes.com in mind. The company picks up used boxes from homes and businesses and sells them to home movers for about half the price of a new box....