Wendt Corp. sells compact wire chopping system
Wendt Corp. sells compact wire chopping system
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Jennifer Jones, left, owner of Scrap Central, with the MTB Cable Box. |
The MTB Cable Box, a compact wire chopping system, offers Scrap Central a containerized, turnkey wire chopping solution to begin processing its increasing volume of nonferrous materials, Wendt says.
The first MTB Cable Box system will be installed and commissioned at Scrap Central by the end of the year. The company says it plans to run the operation six days per week, eight hours per day, processing up to 2 tons an hour, depending on material type.
Scrap Central’s Cable Box features a BDR1245 shredder, two BAT800 granulators, air density tables, screens and magnetic separators, as well as integrated electrical controls and a dust collection system. The compact system has been designed to fit into two 20-foot-by-40-foot and one 20-foot-by-20-foot reinforced, customized containers. While the system is smaller in size and footprint, it shares the same design as MTB’s larger systems, Wendt says. This enables it to efficiently treat lower quality cables while delivering highly valuable output materials.
Established in 2001, Scrap Central is a second-generation, family-owned and operated business providing metal recycling services to the public and to industrial and commercial customers. Scrap Central owner Jennifer Jones took the company over in May 2011 following the death of her mother, Sheila. Jennifer relocated the company in 2014 from a half-acre lot to a 7-acre former concrete facility to expand the business and keep up with demand.
Since moving, Scrap Central’s insulated copper and aluminum wire volumes have continued to increase, driving the need for another processing solution in addition to its balers. The purchase of the Cable Box will allow the company to keep up with those increased volumes, streamline operations and minimize labor hours spent sorting and baling wire. The system also will expand the company’s processing capabilities to allow a broader range of materials, according to Wendt.
“We partner with a local nonprofit organization in a Go Green Holiday Lights Drive which has diverted over 17,000 pounds of holiday lights from local landfills,” Jones says. “Having a wire chopping system in-house will allow us to donate back more proceeds to our nonprofit partners and grow the project to more communities throughout Nebraska.”
Jones continues, “We thought the revolutionary design and unique self-contained Cable Box was a good fit for our operation since we don’t have excess warehouse space to house a conventional wire processing line. We also were impressed with the production capabilities and the diversity of materials the Cable Box can process. The Cable Box is efficiently designed to minimize process loss and produce high quality marketable products.”
Scrap Central will process insulated No. 1 and No. 2 copper wire and neoprene and ACSR (aluminum conductor steel-reinforced) wires, as well as auto shredder residue (ASR) wire it is currently generating from customers and commercial accounts. The company says it plans to expand its buying potential to other scrap yards in surrounding areas by offering competitive pricing and lower freight costs with its centralized location.
“We look forward to growing relationships with companies generating large volumes of insulated wires in need of processing and hoping to increase their bottom lines,” Jones says.
“I was extremely impressed with not only the capabilities and innovation of the MTB Cable Box system but with MTB owner, Jean Phillipe, and his company,” she continues. “MTB and Scrap Central’s visions align in the mission and goals to better our environmental impacts for future generations. The reputation of MTB/Wendt speaks for itself.
“The robustness of the Cable Box system will allow a young owner and company like myself the versatility to move with the industry and process a limitless variety of material,” Jones adds.
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Source: Recycling Today
Wendt Corp. sells compact wire chopping system
<![CDATA[Scrap Central, Omaha, Nebraska, has purchased the MTB Cable Box from Wendt Corp., Buffalo, New York. This is the first such unit that Wendt has sold in the U.S. Jennifer Jones, left, owner of Scrap Central, with the MTB Cable Box. The MTB Cable Box, a compact wire chopping system, offers Scrap Central a containerized, turnkey wire chopping solution to begin processing its increasing volume of nonferrous materials, Wendt says. The first MTB Cable Box system will be installed and commissioned at Scrap Central by the end of the year. The company says it plans to run the operation six days per week, eight hours per day, processing up to 2 tons an hour, depending on material type. Scrap Central’s Cable Box features a BDR1245 shredder, two BAT800 granulators, air density tables, screens and magnetic separators, as well as integrated electrical controls and a dust collection system. The compact system has been designed to fit into two 20-foot-by-40-foot and one 20-foot-by-20-foot reinforced, customized containers. While the system is smaller in size and footprint, it shares the same design as MTB’s larger systems, Wendt says. This enables it to efficiently treat lower quality cables while delivering highly valuable output materials. Established in…