Supplier News

SITA UK Picks Eriez for Plants
Equipment company Eriez, based in Erie, Pa., has installed a magnetic separation system for the removal of nonferrous materials at SITA UK’s new wood recycling plants in Preston, Ashington and Perth, U.K.

SITA UK says it is the only major recycling and resource management company to offer a U.K.-wide collection service for waste wood. The wood processing facilities produce what the company calls a high-quality fuel that needs to be free of debris such as nails, hinges and aluminum plates. To meet the requirement, Eriez Magnetics offered an eddy current separator system that includes an Eriez OBM vibratory feeder in line with a 6.5-footwide RevX-E eccentric eddy current separator (ECS) unit together with a modular magnetic drum to remove ferrous metals prior to the ECS.

The OBM vibratory feeder presents a monolayer of material to the ECS, a process designed to enhance separation performance. It also eliminates material surges, ensuring production continuity, Eriez says.

The ECS supplied by Eriez is suitable for capacities up to 40 tons per hour, according to the company. The adjustable rotor of the RevX-E ECS is specifically designed to enable customers to achieve optimum separation by adjusting the rotors of the ECS to match the type of material available.

The equipment was fully commissioned by Eriez’ recycling and service team after installation by SITA UK.

AEM Updates Skid Steer Safety Manual
The Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM), Milwaukee, has updated its Skid Steer Safety Manual and now offers an e-book version. The print manuals are available in English only, and the flipbook-style version is available in both English and Spanish.

According to the AEM, much of the skid steer safety manuals’ text has been rewritten and the graphics have been updated to be more inclusive of all styles of skid steer loaders. The safety information contains several additions, including new content on ultra-low-sulfur diesel (ULSD) fuel hazards and hazards involving masked visibility areas around the machine.

“With a variety of information platforms and multiple languages, equipment users and companies can choose what is most convenient for their training needs: electronic or print, English or Spanish or a combination,” says Jonathan Rydz, AEM safety materials manager.

The manuals are available through AEM’s store at shop.aem.org. The e-book version also is available through Apple’s iTunes Book Store.

AEM’s safety e-books feature options such as variable type, bookmarks, the ability to embed and send email, content searching and a low-light reading format. They are not meant to replace print, says AEM, but to provide equipment users with more options to practice safety on the job site. AEM safety materials are meant to supplement but not to replace manufacturer materials.
 

Pulping Machinery Maker Studies New Markets
The new ownership of Bolton Emerson Americas, Salem, N.H., says it is expanding beyond the pulp and paper industry it has served for more than 100 years with technology that can be used by recyclers and biofuels producers.

The technology in the company’s Tornado pulping machinery and Emerson Claflin refiners is suitable for “a wide range of industries that need clean, homogenous material for feedstock,” the company says in a news release.

The company also states, “The new Bolton Emerson LLC has divested its ancillary product lines and relocated to modern facilities in Salem, N.H. From here the company will supply customers with finished machines and wear parts, such as rotors and stators for the Tornado and fillings, beaters and bars for Jordan and Emerson Claflin refiners.”

The Salem headquarters facility houses engineering, machine assembly, research and development and spare parts inventories.

The company is led by president David Kelley, who has served as an executive in precious metal recovery firms PGM Technologies Inc. (in the U.S.) and 3D Recovery Europe GmbH (in Germany). He holds a degree in chemical engineering from the University of Tennessee and an MBA from Louisiana State University.

Bolton Emerson Americas makes the Tornado pulper, used by the pulp and paper industry for decades to maximize fiber separation and to “defiber everything from textiles to carpeting,” according to the company. It is available in several sizes and speeds and can be operated on a batch basis or continuously. Bolton Emerson also manufactures Claflin refiners, which can be integrated with a Tornado to provide a material processing system.

Bolton Emerson LLC is a global manufacturer of pulping, mill broke recycling, coating and laminating equipment for global markets.

Environmental Solutions Group Launches Triple Bottom Line Program
Environmental Solutions Group (ESG), Chattanooga, Tenn., says it has aligned its product and service solutions for the solid waste and recycling industry to address the triple bottom line needs of its customers.

The concept behind triple bottom line (TBL) is that a business enterprise must measure its success using a combination of social, economic, and environmental criteria. These criteria are often described as the three pillars of TBL and are commonly referred to as people, profit and planet. With the intensified global focus on environmental preservation and green initiatives, this concept has caught the attention of the solid waste and recycling professionals who have adopted it as a way of measuring sustainability success.

Pat Carroll, ESG president, says, “We are hearing from the marketplace that more and more organizations, especially municipalities, are thinking about their businesses in terms of triple bottom line. ESG is perfectly aligned to understand their issues and provide long-term solutions that address their specific goals in terms of people, profit and planet. The pillars succinctly summarize ESG’s approach to the products and consultative services we offer through our Heil, Marathon and Bayne brands.”

Krause Relocates Manufacturing Operations
Krause Manufacturing, Bellingham, Wash., a division of the CP Group, has moved its equipment manufacturing operations to the CP Group’s headquarters in San Diego. The company will keep offices in Bellingham for sales, engineering, parts and service.

CP says it has made significant investments in its San Diego manufacturing plant by moving locations at the end of 2012, increasing space from 50,000 square feet to 120,000 square feet on 12 acres of land.

CP says it also made substantial improvements to its production process by investing in modernized fabricating equipment that has allowed it to streamline its manufacturing process.

“The Krause line of equipment will maintain the same high standards of design, production and engineering expertise, now capable of leveraging the manufacturing capabilities and efficiencies we have invested in our new CP facility in San Diego,” says Terry Schneider, CP Group president and COO.

Krause manufactures heavy-duty recycling equipment and systems for construction and demolition, municipal solid waste and front-end system solutions for waste conversion technologies, as well as single-stream and electronic-waste systems.

Krause’s Bellingham office address is 316 East McLeod Rd., Suite No. 1. CP Group’s San Diego headquarters is located at 795 Calle de Linea. More information is available at www.KrauseManufacturing.com.

Weltec Biopower Constructs Biogas Plant in Finland
Weltec Biopower, a biogas plant construction company based in Vechta, Germany, along with Doranova, its Finnish project partner, is building a biogas plant in Jeppo, Finland.

Construction of the project is expected to be complete by fall 2013. When operational, the plant will produce biomethane that is refined to natural gas quality, according to Weltec. Gas produced at the facility will be suitable for all consumption paths and will be included as fuel at natural gas stations in Finland, says the company.

The modular design of the plant allows for construction to be completed within a short time, Weltec adds. Components constructed in-house and used at the biogas plant include a fermenter, a pump and agitator technology and separation and sanitation technologies. The various equipment is operated through a control system that Weltec specifically developed for the optimal interaction of the components.

The three 4,000-cubic-meter fermenters and the two receiver containers were constructed using stainless steel, which the company says contributes to the quick and safe completion of the plant.

The plant construction company integrated an in-house innovation for the feeding of a substrate it calls MultiMix, which is fibrous input materials such as grass silage, straw or cosubstrate that are disintegrated. Normally, the process allows difficult-to-process substrates to be decomposed into biogas by the bacteria.

The company adds that there is the option for foreign body separation upstream of the pump and stirring systems of the plant. The new feeding system is designed to reduce the stress on the stirring system as well as the wear of the plant. Furthermore, in the future the plant operator will be able to flexibly choose input materials and can rely on cheap, but difficult-to-process substrates.

In the initial phase, only wastewater, grass and straw will be used as fermentation substrates. Additionally, manure from three pig sties will enter the fermenters via pipelines.