Separator removes stainless steel prior to wire cutting and from zurik fractions.

Eriez, Erie, Pennsylvania, has introduced its Stainless Steel Rare Earth Roll Magnetic Separator, which is designed for wire chopping facilities. The company says the unit gives users a solution for removing stray stainless steel prior to chopping lines. The machine is designed to recover and concentrate stainless steel from the “zurik” conductive fraction from a fines minus-1-inch sensor sorting machine or the waste fraction from a fines minus-1-inch eddy current separator.

With a magnetic field strength in excess of 20,000 gauss on the roll surface, Eriez says its Stainless Steel Rare Earth Roll Magnetic Separator is the strongest permanent magnet available, preventing damage to the blades on wire choppers.

The conveyor is designed on 5-foot centers with a high-strength magnetic head pulley (the rare earth roll) and features a 17 millimeter Kevlar belt to convey material over the rare earth roll.  An adjustable splitter assembly provides a split between a weakly magnetic stainless steel fraction and a nonmagnetic material fraction, Eriez says.

The company’s Recycling Equipment Product Manager Chris Ramsdell says, “To avoid damage to the belt, input material must be magnetically treated prior to reaching the Rare Earth Roll Conveyor.”

He adds, “We work closely with all our customers to understand their unique issues. This allows us to design a complete and effective system to remove any ferrous materials with drum magnets and/or magnetic head pulleys prior to processing on the Rare Earth Roll Conveyor. “

Eriez says it will showcase the Stainless Steel Rare Earth Roll Magnetic Separator in addition to other metal recovery equipment at the 2017 Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) Convention & Exposition, April 24-26, in New Orleans.

More information about the Stainless Steel Rare Earth Roll Magnetic Separator is available at http://erieznews.com/nr411. 

In its recently released 2016 annual report, titled “How do You Create Impact3,” The Recycling Partnership, Falls Church, Virginia, highlights the benefits of its work, focusing on year-on-year growth, systems solutions across the supply chain and the multiplier effect that new infrastructure delivers.

Keefe Harrison, CEO of The Recycling Partnership, says, “This report is a celebration of our impact to date, a marker of our explosive growth and tangible progress. Together with our funding partners and our colleagues across the supply chain, we are succeeding. Through partnership, we are doing things that individually we never thought possible.”

According to The Recycling Partnership’s 2016 annual report, the organization has:

Key 2016 partner communities listed in the report are Greenville, South Carolina; Athens, Ohio; Outagamie County, Wisconsin; Emmet County, Michigan; Memphis, Tennessee; St Paul, Minnesota; Atlanta; Chicago; Denver; Portland, Maine; and Santa Fe, New Mexico.

In addition to community engagements, The Recycling Partnership has expanded to statewide work. In Massachusetts, the organization paired with the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Quality and a number of local cities to fight recycling contamination.

Also in 2016, the organization partnered with the Sustainable Packaging Coalition (SPC), Charlottesville, Virginia, to create an initiative called Applying Systems Thinking to Recycling (ASTRX). Through ASTRX, the organizations draw from their experience in packaging design and material recovery to create a system dedicated to “comprehensively mapping barriers and opportunities within the recycling landscape, then identifying tactics to advance the industry and deliver more high-quality recyclables to the supply chain.”

Residential electric customers can receive $50 for each eligible refrigerator or freezer and $15 for each room air conditioner or dehumidifier.

Columbus Consolidated Government Waste Collection Division will use Rubicon’s technology in its hauling trucks.

Brian Yorston worked with Houston-based Waste Management for 22 years.

Rehrig Pacific Co., a  Los Angeles-headquartered manufacturer of plastic pallets, plastic containers, roll-out recycling bins and commercial containers in the waste and recycling industry, has hired Brian Yorston as the new director of business development for its environmental team. Yorston will report directly to Scott Lukach, vice president environmental.

Prior to joining Rehrig, Yorston held several leadership roles during his 22-year history at Waste Management in Houston.

Yorston received his position with Rehrig with the help of Global Recruiters of McKinney, a worldwide executive search firm headquartered in McKinney, Texas, and its president, Tyler Frisbie.