Mike Tinkey served as chief financial officer since joining Eagle Crusher in 2002.
Eagle Crusher Co. Inc., Galion, Ohio, recently announced Mike Tinkey has been promoted to president of the company effective immediately. Susanne Cobey, who previously served as president, will remain as CEO of the company.
According to a news release, Tinkey served as chief financial officer since joining Eagle Crusher in 2002. Previously Tinkey served as CEO of Holbrook & Manter Inc.; chief financial officer for Ohio Industries Inc.; and accounting and audit manager for Ciuni & Panichi Inc.
“I have been with Eagle Crusher Co. for nearly 48 years, 32 as president and CEO. I have worked closely with Mike for the past 20 years,” Cobey says. “Already handling many of the responsibilities that the role of president entails, Mike is well positioned for his new role.”
Tinkey says he initially joined Eagle Crusher because of the unique business model Cobey created, capitalizing on the ever-changing crushing industry while always keeping the needs of customers paramount.
“It is a privilege to be a part of a company that delivers the highest quality crushing and screening equipment, innovative solutions and phenomenal service and support to all our customers,” Tinkey says. “I look forward to working closely with Susanne and our entire team to usher in Eagle Crusher’s next chapter of growth and success.”
Eagle Crusher manufactures a full line of heavy-duty crushing and screening equipment for the recycling, concrete, asphalt, aggregate and sand and gravel industries. This includes the Eagle Crusher line of heavy-duty impact crushers, portable crushing and screening plants, jaw crushers, hammermills, and conveyors.
Eagle Crusher says it developed the structural steel-frame jaw crusher and pioneered high-volume portable crushing equipment for the construction-and-demolition debris recycling industry.
ISRI chapter will play several roles at Paper & Plastics Recycling Conference, Oct. 19-20.
The Paper Stock Industries (PSI) chapter of the Washington-based Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) is preparing to play several roles at the 2022 Paper & Plastics Recycling Conference, which is taking place Oct. 19-20 at the Marriott Marquis Chicago.
PSI will host and moderate two sessions at the event: Moving Materials Revisited, Wednesday, Oct. 19; and OCC/Mixed Paper, Thursday, Oct. 20.
At the freight-focused Wednesday session, Nini Krever of New Jersey-based Wilmington Paper Corp. will moderate a panel that also includes Matt Schrap of Long Beach, California-based Harbor Trucking Association; Karyn Booth of the Washington office of law firm Thompson Hine LLP; and Krissy Van Niekerk from Denmark-based transoceanic container shipping line Maersk.
“Trucking and container shipping began presenting challenges during the pandemic that were exacerbated last year and continued into 2022,” PSI says of its intended focus during the session. The ISRI chapter says it will follow up on its conversation from the 2021 event on the same topic, “looking at what has changed and what remains the same in the areas of trucking and ocean shipping.”
Speakers will offer advice on how to manage transportation-related headaches and provide insights on when the situation might change, PSI says.
Shawn State of Georgia-based Pratt Industries will moderate the Thursday session focusing on old corrugated containers (OCC) and mixed paper. Speakers at the session include John Grinnell of Ohio-based Greif; Sean Davidson from pricing service provider Davis Index; and Jeff Ryalls of Massachusetts-based International Forest Products LLC.
Regarding the state of those sectors, PSI says, “OCC demand continues to rise after record consumption in 2021 and notable containerboard projects are in the works, resulting in historic pricing. This session looks at the dynamics shaping markets for two broadly generated recovered fiber grades—OCC and mixed paper.”
Another PSI member with a visible role at the 2022 Paper & Plastics Recycling Conference will be PSI Secretary/Treasurer Kathy DeLano of Dallas-based Texas Recycling, who will participate in the Commodity Focus: High Grades session, Thursday, Oct. 20.
On the networking side of event, PSI says it will host a reception Tuesday, Oct. 18, from 8:30-10:30 p.m. at event venue Marriott Marquis Chicago, before conference sessions begin the next day. “In addition to being an ideal networking forum, this special event will help raise funds for PSI’s 2023 scholarship program,” the chapter says.
More information about the conference, organized by the Recycling Today Media Group, and its schedule can be found here, while those seeking to register can go directly to this page.
With financing led by B Capital Ascent Fund, CurbWaste says it will increase its product, engineering and implementation teams to further grow its reach.
CurbWaste has announced the closing of $6 million in funding led by B Capital Ascent Fund, bringing the company’s total financing to $7.2 million. This new round of financing also comes from Mucker Capital, which has one of the most successful vertical software as a service (SaaS) portfolios in venture.
The New York City-based company provides a SaaS solution that is designed to help waste service companies manage and streamline their operations from haul to disposal.
Waste haulers deal with a host of complicated elements, ranging from where, how often and what is picked up to employee manifests divided by routes and partnerships with other companies to deal with collected waste on the back end, the company says. CurbWaste says it helps companies collect, understand and leverage their data so they can spend time on high-conviction, high-return activities.
CurbWaste founder and CEO Michael Marmo says, “CurbWaste’s mission is to provide waste haulers with the necessary tools to make their business successful and continue to service their communities safely and effectively.”
Since its initial preseed investment, CurbWaste says it has implemented a solution for customer and order management, real-time dispatch and automated billing with waste industry customers in the U.S. This new funding will allow the company to build industry-specific products that give haulers and their customers a new and more informed way of dealing with their waste.
"The waste industry provides a core utility that is necessary for our society,” says Howard Morgan, chair of B Capital, who is based in New York City. “We are excited about CurbWaste’s ability to change the waste landscape because they have the right team building the right tools that will help haulers and waste companies thrive in an increasingly digital, on-demand world."
Will Hsu, co-founder and partner at Mucker Capital, Santa Monica, California, adds, “Running a waste company is much more than picking up trash and bringing it to a dump. The day-to-day operations can change minute to minute. Michael Marmo knows this firsthand. He started his career in waste working at a transfer station scale, weighing trucks in and out. We know the main objective is to make the customer successful and he works toward that goal relentlessly.”
Casella’s General Counsel Shelley Sayward has been honored for her public policy work.
Casella Waste Systems Inc. Senior Vice President and General Counsel Shelley Sayward has been named National Waste and Recycling Association (NWRA) Services Member of the Year as part of its 2022 Industry Leadership Awards.
Casella, headquartered in Rutland, Vermont, is a regional solid waste, recycling and resource management services company.
“Our member companies and their employees are the strength of NWRA,” NWRA President and CEO Darrell Smith says in a news release announcing the award winners. “Without these individuals’ leadership and contributions, NWRA would not be the leading association in the waste industry. I congratulate them on their achievements.”
Sayward was honored for playing an integral role in helping to shape much of the policy discussion on key industry issues throughout the Northeast. As a senior leader at Casella, her first term as the vice chair of the Arlington, Virginia-based association’s Government Affairs Committee has provided significant insight and influence in advancing positive recycling and waste disposal infrastructure policy outcomes in Maine, New Hampshire, New York and Vermont, according to a news release issued by Casella about Sayward’s accomplishments. The company adds that her accomplishments have been felt throughout the association and beyond as she provides a unifying voice across several issues while advancing critical environmental health and safety infrastructure in the communities Casella serves.
“We’re proud of the work that Shelley has done and continues to do on behalf of our organization and the industry as a whole,” Casella Chairman and CEO John W. Casella says. “She is a highly respected, hardworking and trusted member of our senior leadership team, and her ability to help bring the northeastern region of the NWRA together in a more strategic manner will benefit the entire industry for years to come.”
The company says Sayward is committed to understanding all facets of the company, graduating from Casella’s commercial driver’s license school in December 2021, becoming one of the more than 90 graduates of the program since it was established in November 2020.
Sayward will be celebrated alongside the other honorees at the NWRA’s Executive Leadership Roundtable event in October.
More information on all those honored is available here.
Lee's Trash brings more than 25,000 subscription, municipal and commercial disposal customers, as well as construction roll-off lines of business, to LRS.
LRS, an independent waste diversion, recycling and portable services providers based in Rosemont, Illinois, has announced an expansion of its LRS South territory with the acquisition of Lee's Trash Service, Atkins, Arkansas. The Arkansas River Valley business provides residential and commercial waste disposal and roll-off container services.
According to a news release from LRS, advisory and legal services were provided by Capstone Partners and Much Shelist, respectively. The acquisition is effective immediately.
LRS says the acquisition adds density to its Arkansas River Valley footprint, including more than 25,000 subscription and municipal residential customers and commercial disposal customers. It also offers a roll-off presence in commercial and construction markets and a transfer station to support continued regional expansion.
According to a news release from LRS, Lee's Trash Service was founded in 1993 and transformed from one collection route to one of the premier waste service providers in the Arkansas River Valley. LRS says for more than 30 years, founder Tony Lee has scaled his business with an entrepreneurial spirit rooted in family values and customer service excellence. Lee will remain with LRS in a senior operations role as the company grows its regional presence.
LRS entered Arkansas with the Nov. 2021 acquisitions of Orion Waste Solutions territories in Bethel Heights and Harrison in northwest Arkansas, and Waste Recycling Solutions' RAMCO vertically integrated waste and recycling business in Little Rock, Arkansas, which included a construction and demolition landfill located in Mayflower, Arkansas.
"We are thrilled to see our presence across the south-central states take shape and densifying in Arkansas, where the demand for responsible waste diversion and recycling remains strong," says Rusty Janssen, who joined LRS as part of the Ramco acquisition and now serves as senior vice president for LRS South. "As we grow and expand, LRS will be working to invest in recycling and waste diversion infrastructure to fulfill residential and commercial demand, and we remain on track to change the face of trash in Arkansas."
The acquisition of Lee's Trash Service is LRS' 10th to date in 2022. In 2021, the company amassed 22 acquisitions to complement its organic revenue growth across the nation's midsection.