Crusher maker says new jaw and cone EVO2 models also are quiet and cost-effective.
The Kleemann brand of the Germany-based Wirtgen Group says its new Mobicat MC 110(i) EVO2 jaw crusher and Mobicone MCO 90(i) EVO2 cone crusher include a direct drive system offering “a holistic drive concept that forms the basis for high cost-effectiveness.”
“Both machines of the new EVO2 generation are equipped with a patented power train,” Wirtgen Group says. “The crusher is driven directly, and thus with high fuel efficiency, via a reliable fluid coupling."
To reduce dust, the machines are equipped with water nozzles as standard at the crusher inlet and crusher discharge conveyor, along with “the corresponding technical infrastructure,” the company says.
“Optional belt covers also contribute to an improvement [in] air quality during crushing,” Wirtgen Group adds. The measures have been designed to benefit the machine operator, the further peripheral devices on the work site, local residents and the environment, states the company.
Conveying components, such as the vibrating feeder, the double-deck prescreen and the discharge conveyors, are electric powered. “It not only operates with a high level of efficiency but also has ideal protection against dust; downtimes can be avoided to a large extent,” Wirtgen says of the new Kleemann models.
Operation in an ECO mode can additionally reduce fuel consumption as well as wear in idle phases, Wirtgen Group says.
Regarding the new drive concept, “the speed of the cooler fan and thus also the cooling capacity is controlled automatically, which considerably reduces the noise level,” the company says. “Apart from less dust penetration thanks to a lower volume of moved cooler air, work near to the machine is a lot more agreeable for the operator."
For the Kleemann Mobicat MC 110(i) EVO2 jaw crusher, which the company says is frequently used in urban environments, an optional noise protection package is also available. The “considerably reduced noise level” resulting “would even permit work without special ear protection – depending on the material to be processed, further environmental conditions and local regulations,” Wirtgen Group says.
The organization says Washingtonians dropped off 580,000 gallons of paint in the first nine months of the program.
PaintCare, a Washington D.C.-based nonprofit tasked with managing leftover paint in states that have enacted paint stewardship laws, recently released its inaugural report for its paint recycling program in Washington state, which launched last year.
According to the report, in its first nine months of operation in Washington, PaintCare collected more than 580,000 gallons of paint, diverting most of it out of landfills and putting it to beneficial use. A year into collection PaintCare estimates that Washingtonians have dropped off about 842,000 gallons of unwanted paint.
The organization says the paint recycling program allows people to recycle unwanted paint at 210 drop-off sites statewide. Of the 210 year-round sites, 162 were paint retailers, representing 28 percent of likely paint retail participants. The remaining sites included 16 reuse stores, one paint recycler and 31 household hazardous waste facilities.
Of the paint collected, latex paint was 89 percent of the paint processed and was reused or made into recycled-content paint, with about 10 percent of it being landfilled because it was dried. Oil-based paint was 11 percent of the paint processed, which was reused, processed for energy recovery or incinerated.
According to PaintCare’s 2021 Washington Annual Report, the recovery rate of postconsumer paint collected was 5 percent.
The service is made possible by a collaboration between local and statewide governments and private sector businesses. By recycling this paint, PaintCare says it benefits consumers and the environment by diverting paint from Washington’s waste stream and reusing and recycling it in communities across the state.
“It is estimated that about 10 percent of all household paint gets thrown away and can end up in landfills,” says Brett Rodgers, director of communications for PaintCare. “Washingtonians chose to convert this waste product into a beneficial resource. From day one, households and businesses across the state were engaged in recycling efforts. We owe a tremendous thank you to all our partners that helped get this program off the ground. The outpouring of community support has been immense.”
PaintCare is a nonprofit organization created by the paint industry through the American Coatings Association (ACA), Washington D.C. By working with centrally located paint retail stores and locally managed government facilities, the program recycles leftover paint, stain and varnish. PaintCare also offers free on-location pickup to businesses, organizations and households with 100 gallons of paint or more to recycle.
“These programs allow us to put paint back on the shelf, protect the environment and save local governments millions of dollars each year,” Rodgers says. “We’re proud of the progress we’ve made so far and look forward to continue working with our partners to safely and responsibly recycle even more paint in Washington state.”
PaintCare’s Washington program is made possible by the state’s paint stewardship law (SHB 1652), passed in 2019. The law ensures that everyone who produces, sells and uses paint works together to manage its entire life cycle. Passage of the Washington paint stewardship law was made possible by support from multiple stakeholders, including Washington’s Department of Ecology, the ACA, the Product Stewardship Institute, the Northwest Product Stewardship Council and Zero Waste Washington.
The paint stewardship law includes a small fee on the sale of any new paint in the state, which funds all aspects of the program, including paint collection, transportation, processing and public education. Most PaintCare sites accept latex and oil-based architectural paint products, including paints, stains and varnishes. Paint must be dropped off in its original container with its original manufacturer’s label.
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Mill buyers are paying $75 per ton less for scrap in May, pricing services say.
Inflation has been a leading cause of concern for executives, investors, central banks and heads of household alike. In early May, the ferrous scrap market—considered by some a leading indicator—sent a counter-inflationary signal to the basic materials market.
After two months of sometimes sharp upward movement, buyers both in the domestic market and overseas showed an unwillingness to buy scrap at anything other than a lower price in early May.
The downward direction was predicted by several Recycling Today sources in mid- and late April, as they read the tea leaves regarding booming across-the-scale supplies combined with a pullback by overseas buyers.
As expected, domestic mills—who largely have healthy order books—saw it as an opportunity to offer lower bids to find sellers willing to ship material at rates around $75 per ton lower in early May compared with April.
A scrap processor in the Southeast says, “April saw good supply and weaker demand, especially for cut grades, and a weaker export market.” Commenting before the May buying period had started, he remarked, “We feel the market will be down $40 to $50 per ton next month on obsoletes and level on primes.”
By May 10, Argus Media was reporting bids on all three main grades of scrap (prime, shredded and heavy melting steel, or HMS) down from $75 per ton to as much as $100 in large Midwest markets. Not all processors wished to sell at that price, says Argus.
Price tracking by Davis Index revealed similar trends. By May 11, the business information service was reporting that processors had “gradually accepted these lower-priced settlements due to ample supply and waning exports.”
The export market was affected in part by Labor Day or May Day holidays in several countries that coincided with the Eid (end of Ramadan) holiday in Turkey and several other major export destinations.
Postholiday, though, buyers in Turkey remained largely absent from the market, or they offered prices of at least $30 per ton compared with April pricing, according to Davis Index.
The Turkish absence in the market could show mills there have been able to again source slabs, billets and pig iron supplies that had been disrupted by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and subsequent sanctions.
“The majority of free, or open market pig iron produced comes from Ukraine and Russia,” says the recycler in the Southeast. “Many rolling mills [globally] also counted on those two countries to provide billet and finished steel. This has shifted demand on Turkey and other Mediterranean steel producers in a positive way.”
Heading into the summer, U.S. scrap processors and exporters will be anxious to see if the early May lack in demand from Turkey was tied to the end of this temporary shift in metallics movements; to a reluctance by Turkish mills to buy U.S. scrap at its peak price; or to an economic slowdown in the Middle East and Central Asian region served by Turkish mills.
Steel output in the United States seems to have lost its forward momentum, based on figures gathered by the Washington-based American Iron & Steel Institute (AISI).
In the first full week of May, steel production of 1.777 million tons was down 3.1 percent from the same week in 2021. Compared with the previous week, output increased, but by just 0.1 percent.
Automotive sales figures indicate that steel-consuming sector has stalled somewhat. Construction statistics continue to point to an active market there, although trade groups continue to worry about rising materials and labor costs.
Globally, steel output in the more than 60 nations that report to Brussels-based World Steel Association (Worldsteel) amounted to 161 million metric tons this March 2022, representing a 5.8 percent decrease compared with March 2021 production.
Nine of the world’s 10 largest steel-producing nations made less steel in March of this year compared with last March, according to the association. Offering better news for scrap processors is that U.S. output was down just. 0.4 percent and India, a buyer of U.S. scrap, was the sole outlier with a 4.4 percent rise in output.
Worldsteel also released its “Short Range Outlook” for 2022 and 2023 in April. Despite the March declines, it forecasts steel demand will grow by 0.4 percent this year, reaching 1.84 billion metric tons in output.
For 2023, the group says the steel sector will see additional growth of 2.2 percent, reaching 1.88 billion metric tons in output. However, Worldsteel says the war in Ukraine creates a high degree of uncertainty.
China doesn’t buy much ferrous scrap from the U.S., but the nation’s drop in steel output this year has become noteworthy, in part because it lately has made half the world’s steel and also because what happens with its economy will create global ripple effects.
For this March, the nation’s trade association reported a double-digit drop in year-to-year output, producing 10.2 percent less steel in March 2022 compared with one year ago. That follows an 11.2 percent year-on-year decline reported for February—and those figures occurred before the severe lockdown in Shanghai.
The company says the acquisition strengthens its portfolio of demolition tools and adds additional product segments to its offering.
Kinshofer GmbH, a manufacturer of attachments for truck cranes and excavators that is based in Holzkirchen, Germany, has acquired a majority share of Trevi Benne S.p.A., a developer of demolition and scrap processing tools for excavators based in Noventa Vicentina, Italy.
“Kinshofer continues its strategy to provide the industry with a ‘One-Stop-Shop’ solution of outstandingly engineered products to increase efficiency and, more importantly, profitability for its customers,” says Thomas Friedrich, president and CEO of Kinshofer. “The acquisition of Trevi Benne was the next step in our approach to be a global industry leader with a solid local presence.”
Kinshofer says the acquisition of Trevi Benne is significant for three reasons:
it strengthens Kinshofer’s portfolio of demolition tools;
it adds additional product segments to Kinshofer’s offering; and
it improves Kinshofer’s distribution channels in markets Trevi Benne has a strong presence.
Additionally, Kinshofer says it has further enhanced local manufacturing in Italy with its Noventa Vicentina-based vertically integrated manufacturing facilities. Kinshofer says customers will be served quicker and with a wider product range.
Trevi Benne’s industry success is based on Luca Vaccaro, co-owner and CEO of Trevi Benne, and his team’s 30 years of knowledge. With a committed and experienced workforce, Trevi Benne will continue to develop and sell its products globally. In order to meet the current market requirements, Trevi Benne and Kinshofer will recruit more staff to ensure a swift and professional market launch of the companies’ products within either sales organization. Vaccaro will remain co-owner and CEO of Trevi Benne.
“The concentration of knowledge and competence, particularly in the demolition sector, will form a powerful center for future developments customers can only benefit from,” Vaccaro says. “The combination of both product ranges will create more ground-breaking innovations for the industry. The whole Trevi Benne team, which will stay on in its entirety, is very excited to be part of this mutual future.”
Kinshofer’s and Trevi Benne´s employees are working on rapid integration to provide customers worldwide with their comprehensive range of products and services.
The transportation equipment manufacturer has launched several products it says offer increased weight savings and ride quality.
Hendrickson Truck Commercial Vehicle Systems, a Woodridge, Illinois-based transportation equipment manufacturer specializing in lightweight axle and suspension technology, has announced a suite of new products focused on what it calls a rapidly growing electric vehicle (EV) market.
The company’s Softek front steer axle and suspension system, which features Hendrickson’s Steertek front steer axle and integrated with the front mechanical spring suspension and lightweight clamp group, has been scaled to accommodate the medium-duty last-mile delivery market, while still providing weight savings and ride quality. Hendrickson also has incorporated its snake spring technology into the rear suspension system for this platform which it says delivers additional weight savings and optimized ride and stability characteristics.
“Hendrickson has a long history of supplying lightweight suspension products to the heavy-duty transportation industry and today expanded that offering to support the burgeoning medium-duty electric vehicle segment” says Jason Shiffler, business unit director at Hendrickson.
He adds, “Innovative solutions like Softek and snake spring technology deliver not only critical weight savings but also provide excellent ride and handling for the Class 4 and 5 medium-duty delivery van market allowing vehicle manufacturers and fleets alike to maximize capacity in other areas of the vehicle.”
In addition, Hendrickson has made other advancements in the medium-duty market with mechanical suspension components like its Liteflex hybrid composite and steel spring, which it says offers weight savings up to 240 pounds compared with a steel multileaf spring mechanical suspension.
For the heavy-duty market, Hendrickson is offering its Optimaax lightweight forward liftable tandem axle and suspension system for 6x2 vehicles which it says delivers weight savings and helps optimize a vehicle’s energy consumption through its automated liftable technology. Hendrickson says its new product innovations show its commitment to support the EV space, where lightweight products are needed.
The company manufactures and supplies medium- and heavy-duty mechanical, elastomeric and air suspensions, integrated and nonintegrated axle and brakes systems, tire pressure control systems, auxiliary lift axle systems, parabolic and multileaf springs, stabilizers, bumpers and components to the global commercial transportation industry.