Scrap Beat: November/December 2009

November/December 2009

Battleship Uses WTC Steel
Steel recovered from the World Trade Center after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks has found new life as part of the USS New York, a warship that the Navy commissioned Nov. 7 in New York. Seven and a half tons of WTC steel forms the bow stem—the part of the hull that slices through the water as the ship moves forward. Amite Foundry and Machine Co. (Amite, La.) melted 24 tons of the scrap steel and poured it into molds in September 2003 for use in the ship. Northrup Grumman's ship systems sector built the ship.

The USS New York is the first of three ships honoring the victims of Sept. 11. The Arlington and the Somerset will honor the victims of the attacks on the Pentagon and United Flight 93, respectively, and will use materials recovered from those sites. Visit www.ussnewyork.com.

Industry Pledges to Double Europe's Plastic Packaging Recycling Rate
European plastics manufacturers and processors have launched the Plastics 2020 Challenge to double the rate of European plastics recycling by 2020 and keep plastics from entering landfills. The campaign also challenges governments, environmental groups, and consumers to join forces with the industry in reducing, reusing, recycling, and recovering plastic packaging. Visit www.plastics2020challenge.com.

Pilot Recycles Used Coffee Cups
Global Green USA's (Santa Monica, Calif.) Coalition for Resource Recovery has launched a pilot program for recycling used coffee cups along with OCC at seven Manhattan Starbucks locations. The coating and recycling pilot plants of Western Michigan University have certified the cups as OCC-E using the Fibre Box Association's (Elk Grove Village, Ill.) wax alternative protocol, and Duro Bag (Florence, Ky.), a paper bag manufacturer, designed a paper bin liner for collecting the cups and recycling them with corrugated cardboard. Pratt Industries (Conyers, Ga.) will use its Staten Island mill to test the cups and bin liners for recyclability and repulpability. Global Green estimates the United States could divert 645,000 tons of waste from landfills by recycling all 58 billion paper cups used each year.

The coalition plans to apply what it learns toward the recycling of hamburger, pizza, and french fry containers as well as other paper food packaging, it says. Visit www.globalgreen.org.

Sonoco Reorganizes Into Fewer Divisions
Sonoco Products Co. (Hartsville, S.C.) is consolidating its 19 consumer and industrial packaging and services businesses into six units to save $20 million a year, it says. Senior Vice President Jim Bowen will head the North America Primary Materials Group, which includes Sonoco Recycling.

Sonoco also plans to close its Orrville, Ohio, rigid paper packaging plant by March 2010. The company will consolidate customer orders in its other rigid paper packaging operations in the Ohio area, it says. Visit www.sonoco.com.

NC Bans Plastic Bottles From Landfills
A ban that prohibits plastic bottles from North Carolina landfills went into effect Oct. 1 in an effort to increase plastics recycling. The state is encouraging plastic bottle manufacturers to start recycling initiatives to help residents follow the law. Visit www.p2pays.org/bannedmaterials/index.asp.

Pa. Awards Grants to Boost Recycled Content
Four Pennsylvania companies received $1.2 million in grants from the state to increase their use of recycled materials in finished products. The state awards grants of up to $500,000 each to businesses and nonprofits that manufacture a product or reuse an existing product with recyclable material from Pennsylvania as well as to entities that want to start using recyclable material.

American Eagle Paper Mills (Tyrone, Pa.) received $500,000 to add dispersion and bleaching systems to its recycled fiber operations, which will allow the company to process and use an additional 14,880 tons of fiber rejects and junk mail a year, increasing the postconsumer fiber content in its paper products. Chambersburg Waste Paper Co. (Chambersburg, Pa.) received $82,240 to purchase a high-capacity fiber shredder capable of manufacturing up to 5,750 tons a year of animal bedding from recycled newspaper, corrugated, and junk mail. Casual Living Unlimited (New Holland, Pa.) received $493,936 to purchase postconsumer and postindustrial HDPE processing equipment and another extruder to consume 890 tons of recycled plastic annually and to improve the quality of recycled plastic feedstock it uses for outdoor furniture. Meridian Precision (Pine Grove, Pa.) received $132,047 for pulverizing equipment to process more challenging plastics such as postconsumer film, shrink wrap, and other commingled and cross-contaminated plastics. The company expects to use 900 more tons a year of plastic, 240 tons of which will come from postconsumer sources. Visit www.governor.state.pa.us.

Openings and Expansions

• Newell Recycling (East Point, Ga.) has opened its largest metal recycling facility at 100 Sonny Perdue Drive in Savannah, Ga. Newell chose the location for its port access, it says. The company now operates two shredder plants in the Atlanta area and the one in Savannah. The 6,000-hp plants are capable of processing the equivalent of 170 cars an hour, the company says. Visit www.newellrecycling.com.

• Upstate Shredding (Owego, N.Y.) is in the final stages of a $25 million upgrade to its Owego plant. Innovations include enclosure of the 200,000-square-foot scrap processing complex, which is expected to recycle 700,000 tons in 2009. A 10,000-hp, 122-inch Riverside Engineering megashredder is the facility's centerpiece. The shredder's downstream system includes a polishing drum magnet system that removes electric motors containing copper armatures; four dynamic ferrous metal separation systems that use eddy-current technology to segregate nonferrous metals from ferrous metals; a dual-energy X-ray separator system that segregates aluminum from heavier metals; six Sandjet dry heavy-media plants to remove copper from aluminum; optic color sorters to separate yellow metals from red metals; and an $8 million wire recovery system that uses inductive metal detection combined with near-infrared scanning to recover wire.

  Among its other features, the Owego plant includes a new storm-sewer system and an on-site water treatment plant. According to Upstate, it seeks to exceed the high standards of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and become the first "green" plant of its type in the state. The company's next recycling goal is to recover glass and plastics.

  Upstate also is building a new facility in Syracuse, N.Y., and planning another in Scranton, Pa., both set to open in 2010. Visit www.upstateshredding.com.

• Baker Iron & Metal Co. (Lexington, Ky.) has opened a 20-acre yard in Lexington. The new yard has a Harris GS11 shear. Visit www.bakeriron.com.

• Casella Waste Systems (Rutland, Vt.), a solid waste, recycling, and resource management services company, has opened a newly renovated single-stream recycling center in Charlestown, Mass. The facility has eight optical sorters, seven disk screens, and three magnets and can process 45 tons of material an hour. It currently processes 750 tons a day, the company says. Visit www.casella.com.

• Titan Trailers (Delhi, Ontario) plans to build a new assembly plant in Middlesbrough, England, for its Canadian-built semitrailers. The company says it selected the location for its abundance of skilled labor and its seaport access for efficient export. Visit www.titantrailers.com.

• RecycleBank (New York) has expanded to Chicago and Colorado. Chicago chose 10,000 households for Phase 1 of the rewards program, and the Colorado program, through Waste Connections (Denver), covers 10 Denver suburbs and Colorado Springs. Each recycling cart in the participating areas will have an identification tag the hauler scans to track recycling activity. RecycleBank converts the amount recycled into points the households can use for discounts at local and national retailers. Visit www.recyclebank.com.

• Pratt Industries (Conyers, Ga.) has opened a $160 million recycled-paper mill and material recovery facility in Shreveport, La. The mill—the company's third in the United States—produces lightweight containerboard. Pratt is also rolling out a regional commercial recycling program. Visit www.prattindustries.com.

• TerraCycle (Trenton, N.J.), which makes eco-friendly products from scrap materials such as food wrappers, has launched operations in London as its gateway to its expansion throughout Europe. The company also has partnered with Kraft Foods UK to divert Kenco and Tassimo coffee packaging from landfills. Visit www.terracycle.net.

• Indian metal recycling companies have formed the Metal Recycling Association of India (Mumbai), which seeks to promote recycling in India, interact with all Indian government agencies and associations, and work with international recycling bodies such as BIR and ISRI. The group's first meeting attracted more than 40 Indian recycling companies as well as representatives from the Bombay Metal Exchange, Ahmedabad Metal Exchange, and Induction Furnace Association. Visit www.mrai.org.in.

Mergers and Acquisitions

• Environmental Capital Partners (New York), a private equity firm, has acquired the assets of Intechra Holding Corp. (Ridgeville, Miss.), an IT asset disposition company. The IHC management team remains in place. Visit www.ecpcapital.com or www.intechra.com.

• Brookfield Resource Management (Elmsford, N.Y.) has acquired Kaufman Auto Parts (Montrose, N.Y.). The company plans to add a recycling operation to the 10-acre auto dismantling facility. Visit www.brookfieldco.com.

• Magnum D'Or Resources (Magog, Québec) has acquired a 120-acre tire landfill in Hudson, Colo., which Magnum Recycling USA will operate. The facility has more than 30 million tires and is one of the largest tire landfills in the world, the company says. Visit www.magnumresources.net.

• Metro Waste Paper Recovery (Toronto), a subsidiary of Cascades (Kingsey Falls, Québec), has acquired the Canadian assets of Sonoco Recycling (Hartsville, S.C.) as well as the recovery assets of Yorkshire Paper Corp. (Nantucket, Mass.). Both companies provide retail businesses with on-site collection of recyclable materials such as corrugated containers, paper, and plastics. Yorkshire operates in New England and in upstate New York and annually collects about 24,000 mt of recycled fiber. In 2008, Sonoco Recycling collected 190,000 mt of recycled fiber across Canada. Metro Waste expects to increase its collection capacity 20 percent, or 1.4 million mt per year, with the acquisitions. It operates 17 recovery facilities across Canada and the northeastern United States. Visit www.metrowaste.com.

• RTT Systemtechnik (Zittau, Germany) and Steinert Electromagnetbau (Cologne, Germany) are joining to form RTT Steinert. Consolidating RTT's sensor technology and Steinert's magnet and sensor technology, the new company offers a complete product range of separation options, including near-infrared technology for plastics and paper separation as well as sensor-controlled separation and magnet technology for metals and mineral separation. Visit www.steinert.de.

Sennebogen Relocates in N.C.
Material handler manufacturer Sennebogen has moved from Charlotte, N.C., to 7669 Old Plank Road, Stanley, NC 28164. The company's phone and fax numbers and e-mail addresses remain the same. Visit www.sennebogen-na.com.

New Ventures

• Novelis (Cleveland) and Alcoa (Pittsburgh), two of North America's largest processors and consumers of alumi­num UBCs, have formed Evermore Recycling (Nashville, Tenn.) to reduce costs, increase efficiencies and recycling, and build stronger supplier relationships, the company says. Evermore will act as a purchasing agent for the two parent companies in their acquisition of UBCs. Alcoa and Novelis will conduct business as usual for the balance of 2009 deliveries with existing suppliers. As of September, however, Evermore Recycling began initiating commercial relationships with prospective suppliers for deliveries effective Jan. 1. Novelis will no longer use Anheuser-Busch Recycling Corp. (St. Louis) as its outsourced supplier of UBCs as of Dec. 31. Visit www.alcoa.com, www.evermorerecycling.com, or www.novelis.com.

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• Florida Tire Recycling (Port St. Lucie, Fla.) now accepts used flooring from the Andersen Co. (Dalton, Ga.) and its clients. FTR turns the material into a rubber powder for new rubber mats and other products. The partnership allows Andersen to offer flooring take-back programs to its customers.Visit www.ftri.net.

• Dart Container Corp. (Mason, Mich.) has partnered with two schools to divert plastic foam materials from landfills. Westwood Elementary School (Stockton, Calif.) collected polystyrene lunch trays for a year, reducing its overall waste load by 20 percent and recycling 90 percent of its trays. Dart's Lodi plant converted the trays into plastic resin pellets for reuse in nonfood-service products such as picture frames and decorative molding. Maryville Academy (Des Plaines, Ill.) also teamed up with Dart to recycle foam as part of its food-service operations. Maryville is leasing a foam densifier, which compacts a pile of foam food containers and trays the size of a small car into the size of a five-gallon bucket, as part of Dart's Cups Are Recyclable program. Dart picks up the densified foam monthly free of charge, which it uses in products such as building insulation and plastic lumber. Visit www.dart.biz.

• Rigaku Corp. (Tokyo) has formed Applied Rigaku Technologies (Austin, Texas), a new subsidiary dedicated to energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence and related elemental analysis technologies. The 20,000-square-foot facility will develop X-ray based analytical instruments and techniques with the Rigaku XRF product group based in Osaka, Japan. Visit www.rigaku.com.

• Navistar International Corp. (Warrenville, Ill.) and Caterpillar (Peoria, Ill.) have formed NC2 Global (Lisle, Ill.) to serve the global commercial truck market. The joint venture will develop, manufacture, and distribute commercial trucks with an initial focus on markets such as Australia, Brazil, China, Russia, South Africa, and Turkey. The line will feature conventional and cab-over-truck designs and will sell under the Cat and International brands.

  Separately, Navistar and Caterpillar will design and develop a new proprietary, purpose-built, heavy-duty Cat vocational truck for the North American market. The Cat North American dealer network will sell the trucks, which Navistar will manufacture in its Garland, Texas, facility. Visit www.nc2.com, www.cat.com, or www.navistar.com.

• Henry A. Wiltschek (Stoney Creek, Ontario), manufacturer of CanSort air-less metal sorting machines and rare earth magnetic products and equipment, and Teme Engineering (Caledonia, Ontario), a designer and manufacturer of robotics, assembly lines, and material handling equipment, have teamed up to design, manufacture, and install equipment. Visit www.hawiltschekinc.com or www.temeng.com.

• BBS Services (Darlington, S.C.) now offers services for troubleshooting, installing, and inspecting lifting magnets. The company primarily operates in the South but also offers services in Ohio and Indiana. Visit www.bbsservicesllc.com.

• The U.S. Department of Transportation's Maritime Administration (Washington, D.C.) has awarded contracts to recycle two more obsolete government-owned ships from the James River Reserve fleet. Bay Bridge Enterprises (Chesapeake, Va.) will recycle the Escape, a 1942 Navy rescue ship, and All Star Metals (Brownsville, Texas) will recycle the Cape Cod, a 1962 break-bulk cargo ship. The government paid $115,200 and $328,122 for their recycling, respectively. Visit www.marad.dot.gov.

• Barnes & Noble (New York) has joined with Green America's (Washington, D.C.) Better Paper Project to promote magazines using recycled paper on special racks in more than 240 of its largest stores. Visit www.greenamericatoday.org.

Recycling Center Changes Name

Bay Area Metals (San Francisco) has changed its name to J and S Recycling. The company recycles plastics, glass, and ferrous and nonferrous metals and pays the California refund value on the return of qualifying beverage containers. Visit www.jnsrecycling.com.

Electronics Roundup

• WeRecycle! (Wallingford, Conn.), which specializes in the recovery, management, and recycling of end-of-life electronics, has emerged from Chapter 11 restructuring as a limited liability corporation. Hugo Neu Corp. (New York) is now the company's largest shareholder. Mick Schum continues as president and Gina Chiarella as executive vice president. Visit www.werecycle.com.

• Waste Management Recycle America (Houston) has partnered with retailer American TV (Madison, Wis.) as well as LG Electronics (Seoul, South Korea) and Sony Electronics (San Diego) to expand its nationwide electronics recycling program. Consumers can recycle their used, unwanted, obsolete, or damaged consumer electronic products from Sony, LG, Zenith, and Goldstar by dropping them off free of charge at any American TV store. Visit www.wm.com.

• Panasonic Corp. (Osaka, Japan) and Panasonic Eco Technology Center Co. have developed a technology using laser beams to separate the front panel and back part of a television cathode-ray tube. This laser-cut technology, implemented at PETEC's plant in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, separates CRTs quicker and more cleanly than before, the companies say. Visit www.panasonic.net.

• Nippon Mining & Metals Co. (Tokyo) plans to open the world's first plant to extract lithium and manganese from used lithium-ion batteries on a commercial scale, it says. The company will launch a test plant to extract the two metals, along with cobalt and nickel, before beginning commercial operations in 2011, it adds. Visit www.nikko-metal.co.jp.

• Call2Recycle (Atlanta) and the nonprofit Product Stewardship Institute (Boston) released a study, Battery Performance Metrics: Recommendations for Best Practice, to guide policymakers, manufacturers, and program participants on ways to evaluate and strengthen battery collection initiatives. Visit www.call2recycle.org or www.productstewardship.us.

Awards and Milestones

• A subsidiary facility of Tube City IMS (Glassport, Pa.) in Ghent, Belgium, has achieved VCA certification, and the company's facility in Fos-sur-Mer, France, has achieved OHSAS 18001 certification. VCA is a health, safety, and environmental recognition for contractors. OHSAS 18001 is a standard for having a comprehensive safety management system in place. The standard includes five major elements: environmental health and safety policy; planning; implementation and operation; checking and corrective action; and management review. Visit www.tubecityims.com.

• Guardian News and Media (London) and the Cleantech Group (Brighton, Mich.) recognized MBA Polymers (Richmond, Calif.) in the Global Cleantech 100 list for its innovative technology and business model. MBA developed patented processes that recycle plastics from end-of-life durable goods, such as computers, appliances, and automobiles. The Global Cleantech 100 is a list highlighting the most promising private clean-technology companies around the world. Some 3,500 companies were considered for the list. Visit www.cleantech.com.

• Columbus CEO magazine readers named Grossman Environmental Recycling (Westerville, Ohio) the best recycling company in the magazine's recent Best of Business issue. The recycler and broker of scrap paper and plastics develops markets for difficult-to-market manufacturing byproducts. Visit www.grossmanenvironmentalrecycling.com.

• Round2 (Austin, Texas) has successfully completed ISO 9001:2008, 14001:2004, and OHSAS 18001 certifications for its quality, environmental, health, and safety standards.

  Visit www.round2.net.

• City Carton Recycling (Iowa City, Iowa) and the Ockenfels Family Foundation raised more than $97,500 at their 15th annual charity golf outing, which raises money for American Cancer Society children's programs. They hold the event in memory of Deborah Ockenfels, daughter of Mort and Marcy Ockenfels, who founded City Carton Recycling. Visit www.citycarton.com.

• Texas Carpet Recycling (Grapevine, Texas) has won the 2009 Outstanding Construction and Demolition Debris Reuse/Recycling Leadership Award from the State of Texas Alliance for Recycling. Visit www.recyclingstar.org or www.texascarpetrecycling.com.

• The FinesSort metals recovery system from Eriez (Erie, Pa.) has won a 2008 Gold Level Product of the Year award from Plant Engineering magazine. The publication's subscribers select the winners based on a nationwide vote. Visit www.eriez.com.

• Automotive parts recycler Pull-A-Part (Atlanta) has received the first Recycling Award from Conserve Georgia, which recognizes outstanding achievements to minimize the impact of waste and promote recycling in Georgia. The company also received the 2009 Sustainability Award from the Partnership for a Sustainable Georgia for its ability to reduce its carbon footprint and create a model of sustainable practices. Two of Pull-A-Part's Georgia locations are gold-level National Environmental Performance Track partners. Visit www.gasustainability.org, www.conservegeorgia.org, and www.pullapart.com.

• Harris Waste Management Group (Peach­tree City, Ga.) has received the Georgia Department of Labor's award for excellence for workplace safety, which recognizes companies that go more than 250 workdays without lost-time injuries, illnesses, or fatalities. Visit www.harriswaste.com.

• Benlee (Romulus, Mich.) is a 2008 Save Energy Now Energy Champion Plant for saving energy in its operations. Save Energy Now is a national initiative of the Industrial Technologies program of the U.S. Department of Energy (Washington, D.C.) to reduce industrial energy intensity 25 percent or more in 10 years. Visit www.benlee.com.

• Avery Weigh-Tronix (Fairmont, Minn.), a provider of software for truck scale operations, has gained Class A certification for its software development from one of the world's leading computer science institutions. The Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute (Pittsburgh) recognized Avery Weigh-Tronix for achieving Level 3 compliance with the Capability Maturity Model Integration Model v1.2. Gaining Level 3 certification places the software development process at Avery Weigh-Tronix at the same level of CMMI compliance as parts of organizations such as Accenture, Boeing Co., and Computer Sciences Corp. Visit www.wtxweb.com.

• Caterpillar (Peoria, Ill.) is ranked 73 out of 500 companies on Newsweek's Green Rankings and No. 5 in the industrial goods sector. The list ranks companies based on their environmental policies, practices, and overall reputation. Visit www.cat.com.

• Caraustar Industries' (Atlanta) Austell, Ga., boxboard mill No. 1 facility has achieved certification from the Forest Stewardship Council chain of custody standards. The mill produces a totally recycled paperboard product. The mill also has received certification from the Sustainable Forestry Initiative chain of custody standard. Visit www.caraustar.com.

Program Recycles Old Cookware
Cookware manufacturer Calphalon (Toledo, Ohio) has launched Calphalon ReNew, a program to recycle used cookware. Consumers who purchase a qualifying set of Calphalon Unison nonstick cookware can place their old cookware—any brand—inside a return shipping box that comes with their new set; register online, print a pre-paid shipping label, and take the package to a FedEx drop-off location. As a thank you, participants receive two 100-percent recycled cotton shopping bags. Visit www.calphalonrenew.com.

GPI Releases Survey, Honors Winners
Eight out of 10 U.S. households recycle, according to a Glass Packaging Institute (Alexandria, Va.) telephone survey of 750 people. The results also show a high correlation between what people think about recycling and whether they recycle: People who think recycling is good for the environment are 83 percent more likely to recycle, it says.

In other GPI news, Taylor Larson, a Utah State University senior, won the National Glass Recycling YouTube video competition for his video, One Choice, which promotes the benefits of recycling glass.

GPI also recognized seven "Friends of Glass"—companies, organizations, and persons furthering the cause of glass container recycling for bottle-to-bottle use. The 2009 honorees are Earth911.com; the Hyatt Regency Atlanta; the Natural Resource Department of Fort Collins, Colo.; and U.S. Rep. Jay Inslee. "Best Friends of Glass" are Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., McIlhenny Co., and Heaven Hill Distilleries. Visit www.gpi.org.

New Distributors

• Northshore Manufacturing (Two Harbors, Minn.) has named Mid-Atlantic Waste Systems (Easton, Md.) a distributor for Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, eastern Pennsylvania, and southern New Jersey. MAWS has full sales and service centers in Easton, Md.; Clinton, Md.; Chesapeake, Va.; Baltimore, Md.; Bedford, Va.; and Chester, Pa. Visit www.builtritehandlers.com or www.

  mawaste.com.

• Sennebogen (Charlotte, N.C.) has named Road Machinery (Phoenix) a distributor of its equipment from El Paso, Texas, to northern California. Road Machinery has 14 locations throughout Arizona, California, New Mexico, and west Texas. Visit www.sennebogen-na.com or www.roadmachinery.com.

• Winkle Industries (Alliance, Ohio) has selected J. Clark & Associates (Griffith, Ind.) as its new distributor for Illinois, Indiana, southern Wisconsin, and eastern Iowa. The company will sell a complete range of Winkle engineered mill-duty products for above-the-hook, below-the-hook, and on-the-ground material handling systems, as well as consulting services and aftermarket parts supply. J. Clark also will represent LiftTech Industrial Services, a Winkle affiliate that provides technical field support, repair services, and maintenance management to the steel, scrap, and mill-related industries. Visit www.winkleindustries.com.

• Tigercat (Paris, Ontario) has named Ricer Equipment (Lucasville, Ohio) a dealer for Ohio, Kentucky, and West Virginia.Visit www.tigercat.com or www.ricerequipment.com.

Bobcat Consolidates Production
Bobcat Co. (West Fargo, N.D.) has transferred its North American machinery production to its Gwinner, N.D., facility and will discontinue production at its Bismarck, N.D., plant by the end of 2009. The Bismarck site will retain the Bobcat manufacturing support center. Visit www.bobcat.com.

Equipment Sales and Installations

• Riverside Engineering (San Antonio) has installed an M-88 shredder and downstream separation system at Tube City IMS' (Glassport, Pa.) West Mifflin, Pa., recycling facility. The system includes the 88-by-112 shredder, feed system, Steinert magnet separation, and controls upgrade with H2Pro water injection.Visit www.riverside

  engineering.com or www.tubecityims.com.

• U.S. Shredder and Castings Group (Trussville, Ala.) has sold a 98/115 heavy-duty shredder to a South Florida customer. The shredder will feature a DC drive system and the company's E-Shred control technology. SGM Magnetics (Sarasota, Fla.) will assist in installing the system's magnetic drums and eddy-current components. U.S. Conveyor (Mackinaw, Ill.), U.S. Shredder's sister company, will build the conveyors, trommel, and structural components. Visit www.usshredder.com.

• Two facilities recently purchased Harris (Peachtree City, Ga.) equipment. Baker Iron & Metal Co. (Lexington, Ky.) has installed a Harris GS11 baler/logger/shear, and Midwest Scrap Management (Kansas City, Mo.) has purchased a drive package for the HS12125 shredder, which the company plans to use in a second HS125125 shredder plant it will install in the future. Visit www.harrisequip.com.

• BAS Recycling (Moreno Valley, Calif.) has purchased a multistage tire recycling system from Columbus McKinnon Corp. (Sarasota, Fla.) that can process more than 12,000 pounds an hour of passenger car, truck, and super-single truck tires. The system's size-reduction stage uses a CM primary shredder with screening capabilities to produce 4-inch to 6-inch tire chips. The chips then enter a CM M4R Liberator for the steel liberation stage, followed by a clean wire system that separates the rubber and wire. The company will sell the clean steel to mill consumers. The rubber goes through a screening system. Larger rubber pieces can go into mulch or similar markets; the remaining material goes to a surge bin for further processing in the unit's cryogenic system. Visit www.cmtire

  recyclingequipment.com.

• Quad Plus (Joliet, Ill.) has installed what it says is the first DC shredder drive in Europe at Hawkeswood Recycling (Birmingham, England). The 4,000-hp, 24-pulse DC shredder drive powers an 80/104 American Pulverizer shredder. Visit www.quadplus.com.

• The metals and advanced manufacturing division of Management Science Associates (Pittsburgh) has received a contract to design, implement, and commission a melt shop automation project for Universal Stainless & Alloy Products (Bridgeville, Pa.) to improve its primary melting and raw materials operation's information and automation capabilities. The MAP system includes MSA's Blending Optimization Software Suite; Level 2 systems at the scrapyard, EAF, ladle trim, and teeming stations; as well as integration of these systems with USAP's existing purchasing and financial systems. Visit www.msa.com.

• MeWa Recycling Maschinen und Anlagenbau (Gechingen, Germany) has installed a privately owned used tire recycling plant in Kazakhstan, which will produce clean rubber granulate and an active fine powder for road construction. The Kazakhstan Rubber Recycling plant, which includes a MeWa UC 150 rotary shear, will process truck and automobile tires. Visit www.mewa-recycling.de/en.

• Recovery Processes Innovations (Salt Lake City), an electronics plastics recycler, has installed a Sweed (Gold Hill, Ore.) Model 525 bale wire chopper. Visit www.sweed.com.

Resources

• The World Steel Association (Brussels) has released its 2009 edition of World Steel in Figures, which provides facts and figures about the global steel industry, including information on crude steel production, apparent steel use, trade, scrap, iron, and pig iron. The book is available online. Visit www.worldsteel.org.

• The Aluminum Association's (Arlington, Va.) 2009 Buyer's Guide provides sales contacts, addresses, and company information on more than 150 primary ingot, recycled ingot, and master alloys manufacturers; more than 200 extruders; 125 companies specializing in drawing stock, bare wire, pigments and powder, forgings and impacts, ACSR and bare cable, and insulated/covered wire and cable; nearly 200 nonferrous casting foundries; 100 aluminum distributors; and more than 350 suppliers. The association also has released the 2008 Aluminum Statistical Review, which covers primary aluminum production, finished goods markets, and scrap recovery, among other topics. Visit www.aluminum.org.

• A new United Recyclers Group-funded (Centennial, Colo.) study conducted by the University of Colorado quantifies the benefits of automotive reuse and recycling by the nation's automotive recycling industry. The study examines the energy savings of reusing some common parts, such as fenders and aluminum wheels, as well as of reprocessing motor oil from end-of-life vehicles. Visit www.u-r-g.com.

Fishing for Energy
Fishing for Energy, a recycling program for old fishing gear, has made its way to the Oregon ports of Garibaldi and Newport. The initiative, which began on the East Coast, is a joint effort of Covanta Energy (Fairfield, N.J.), the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (Washington, D.C.), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Washington, D.C.), and Schnitzer Steel Industries (Portland, Ore.). Schnitzer turns the discarded gear, which is collected in bins at the ports, into energy. Visit www.nfwf.org.

Steel recovered from the World Trade Center after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks has found new life as part of the USS New York, a warship that the Navy commissioned Nov. 7 in New York.