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Cutting up: scrap processors now use hydraulic attachments for processing in addition to their loading and unloading functions.
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Recycling Today
Publication Date: 01-APR-06 |
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Full Article Title: Cutting up: scrap processors now use hydraulic attachments for processing in addition to their loading and unloading functions.(Allied-Gator Inc. has introduced the MT Series Mag Extension excavator)(constrction industry offers demolition hammers for break downs)(usage of hydraulic equipment for scrap processing) |
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Article Excerpt
Recyclers of scrap metal have long used lifting magnets and grapples to unload and load scrap, as well as to move it within the yard and feed it to larger processing equipment.
Magnets and grapples remain on the job in those capacities at scrap yards, but they have been joined by growing numbers of hydraulic shears (and on demolition sites, shear hybrids) that also process and prepare scrap to increase its value.
The shear market has been hot for the last several years, as demolition scrap and other forms of obsolete scrap flow into scrap facilities where yard managers are eager to quickly turn this stream into marketable secondary commodities.
ON ORDER. Equipment dealers who cater to the scrap market say the increasing interest in shear attachments has been clear to see in the past several years.
"Scrap shears, both rotating and non-rotating, are very popular," says Lee Gibson, president of Gibson Machinery LLC, Cleveland.
By concentrating his dealership on the scrap and demolition industries, Gibson says he has become a leading dealer for Genesis Attachments, earning a No. 1 ranking from the shear maker in 2004 and No. 2 last year.
During that...
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