Bunting has announced the addition of new electromagnetic products.
Newton, Kansas-based Bunting has announced the addition of several new products to its Elk Grove Village, Illinois location’s online catalog, including N42 and electromagnet products.
“Our new stock of plated N42 neodymium disc magnets gives our customers greater options in selecting the perfect neodymium magnet for their application,” the company says.
The newly added stock of round electromagnets provides an efficient and economical solution for handling ferrous materials and parts safely and securely. They are available in several shapes and sizes and can be used in a variety of manual and automated applications. According to Bunting, the magnets require little maintenance and are 100 percent duty cycle.
Rectangular flat-faced electromagnets also are available on the online catalog and are ideal for achieving maximum holding force on flat, smooth, dry or unpainted surfaces, the company says. These magnets are also ideal for surfaces where the entire face of the magnet comes in direct contact with the product being handled.
Flat-faced electromagnets are designed with a center magnetic pole and use the outer case as the opposite pole, and they concentrate the magnetic force at the center of the magnet to achieve superior holding power.
SWANA joins more than 170 organizations to request that congressional leadership support legislation to provide $500 billion in federal aid to local governments.
The Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA), Silver Spring, Maryland, has joined more than 170 other organizations urging Congress to include direct relief to cities, towns and villages in future federal assistance packages in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to SWANA, the unprecedented coronavirus public health crisis has strained municipal budgets across the U.S. This will test their ability to provide essential services to communities and support local economic activity in these critical times.
In response to these challenges, SWANA and others have requested that congressional leadership support legislation that would provide $500 billion of federal aid over two years to local governments. The association requests that these funds be fairly and directly allocated without exclusions based on population and should provide equal funding overall for both municipal and county governments.
In light of the extent and the complexity of the situation, SWANA says it believes maximum flexibility should be provided for the eligible use of the funds to address the budget consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Municipal governments are incurring increased expenses and are taking in less revenue due to the pandemic, and this can be expected to continue for several years,” says David Biderman, SWANA’s executive director and CEO. “This puts essential services that millions of Americans depend on every day at risk, including police, fire protection, and sanitation services. SWANA urges Congress to provide support to cities and other local governmental entities.”
Rumpke was the only waste and recycling company to be recognized as an honoree.
Rumpke Waste & Recycling, Colerain Township, Ohio, announced it was named one of the 2020 US Best Managed Companies. The award, sponsored by Deloitte Private and The Wall Street Journal, recognizes the best managed private companies in the country. Rumpke was the only waste and recycling company to be recognized as an honoree.
Rumpke was nominated for the award and then participated in the application process that included an independent evaluation of four key management skills: strategy, execution, culture and financials. Rumpke was one of 27 honorees from across the Unites States representing a variety of industries.
“Rumpke is thrilled and honored by this national acknowledgement. During these times of uncertainty, this recognition shines a spotlight on our country’s leading private companies, Rumpke is proud to share this award with so many other successful private businesses and to be the only waste and recycling firm to earn this designation,” Rumpke President and CEO Bill Rumpke Jr. says.
“This award is another shared achievement of our Rumpke team. It’s one more acknowledgement that the work, expertise and dedication we put forth every day is what ensures our ability to rise to the top. We would like to thank our outstanding shareholders, board of directors and team of more than 3,000 employees for their efforts as well as all those involved in the awards process,” Rumpke adds.
Like a reliable veteran employee, some balers stay on the job for decades.
Manufacturers of balers exist in part, naturally, to make and sell new machines to existing and prospective new customers. To do so, however, they also design and make balers that are so reliably good at what they do that their customers keep the machine running for decades.
Baler makers have found that there is far more good than harm in making a machine that stands the test of time, as such units provide benefits that include a long-lasting customer relationship, prospective customer site visits to see the baler, and testimonials from the happy customer that serve as outstanding marketing material.
On either side of the Atlantic Ocean, baler manufacturers recently pointed to customers who have kept a baler on the job for from 35 to 40 years.
In the United States, Asheville Waste Paper in North Carolina has a decades-old machine made by Ohio-based American Baler Co. helping prepare its recovered fiber for shipment.
In a recent advertorial piece prepared by Recycling Today, Asheville Waste Paper Chief Administrative Officer Gabe Pace says the nearly 40-year-old single-ram horizontal baler from American Baler has helped to keep things going when other machines were broken. “It got us through the hard times; that machine has held up for us, and we are very happy with it,” says Pace.
In Dunkerque, France, Triselec Dunkerque is using a 40-year old baler made by Netherlands-based Bollegraaf. According to a Bollegraaf recounting of the baler’s four-decade journey, the HBC50 extrusion baler left the Bollegraaf factory in Appingedam in 1980 “to start its career in cardboard, paper, plastic and aluminum baling.”
The baler’s owner in its first 19 years was the Gero Genemuiden recycling firm in the Netherlands. In 1999, the baler was retrofitted before being resold to Triselec Dunkerque, which has “been using it ever since,” according to Bollegraaf.
Triselec bales sorted municipally collected materials, about 20,000 tons per year of which comes from a program operated by the Community of Dunkerque. “Together, Bollegraaf’s HBC50 and Triselec are working to achieve Triselec’s guiding principle: to support the circular economy,” says Serge Roulez, head of research and development at Triselec.
Adds Roulez, “The HBS50 is easy to maintain and operate. It’s a reliable piece of equipment. On average, the baler operates six days a week, every week of the year. The machine produces approximately 80 bales per day and has already created 1 million bales since leaving the factory. The combination of professional preventive maintenance, a high-quality product and skilled operators results in a baler that’s up to the task (almost) every day.”
Balers made by U.S.based Harris, a 130-year-old company, have long had significant global market share. Harris spokesperson Holly Waters says a Harris HRB 3B model built in the early 1970s and an HRB-8-NF unit built in 1985 are both in service at Montgomery Paper in Dayton, Ohio. “They use both every day, and run one of the best paper recycling operations I’ve ever seen,” says Waters.
Another American firm operating a decades-old Harris baler to recycle fiber is Waste Pro at a location in Atlanta. (In the metals sector, recyclers including Indiana-based OmniSource Corp. and two American locations of United Kingdom-based EMR Ltd. also have decades-old Harris machines, notes Waters.)
Sweden-based Presona AB says one of its customers in that nation uses a Presona model made in 1987 to bale cardboard packaging, while two overseas customers also have durable units on the job.
According to Presona spokesperson Jesper Hultqvist, old corrugated containers (OCC) recycler Lautus in Latvia is running a Presona LP 50 VH2 that was made in 1990. In Russia, Moscow-based PAO Gofron is using a Presona LP 40 EH2, also made in 1990, to bale OCC and other board grades.
Germany-based baler manufacturer Paal, which was acquired by Massachusetts-based Kadant Inc. in 2016, becoming Kadant-Paal, has a lengthy list of veteran balers on the job.* (Eugene, Oregon-based Bulk Handling Systems (BHS) represents the line in the U.S. and Canada.) “For decades Paal has (and still does) single-handedly led Europe in market share in the recycling space,” says Craig Heley and Hubert Stricker of Kadant-Paal.
The duo prepared a list of long-serving Paal balers that includes five balers made in the 1980s:
Attention to maintenance plays a leading role in the longevity of even the best-made baler. Sidney Wildes of United States-based Waste 2 Solutions offers his thoughts on that topic in this 2019 Recycling Today article, while long-time recycling plant operations manager Robb Espinosa offers another perspective on the same topic in his 2015 Recycling Today contribution.
*BHS originally was misstated as the owner of the Paal line.
Tracked and skid-steer loaders are designed for durability, says the equipment firm.
West Fargo, North Dakota-based Bobcat Co. has introduced four new compact track and skid-steer loaders. The tracked T64 and T66 models and the skid-steer S64 and S66 machines are part of the company’s R-Series loaders designed to offer “upgraded performance with greater lift capacities and higher lift heights than their M- and M2-Series predecessors.”
“With a total focus on quality, the new 60 platform R-Series loaders offer uncompromising reliability and durability, enhanced performance and unmatched operator experience,” states the company, all while “maintaining a compact frame.”
Among the features of the new models, according to Bobcat, are:
More information on Bobcat loaders can be found on its website.