Crusher maker will emphasize electrification features at German trade fair.
Austria-based crushing and screening equipment maker Rubble Master (RM Group) is preparing to display technology at the late October BAUMA trade fair in Munich it says involves “innovations for cost-effective and efficient crushing and screening.”
The company says it has been powering its mobile processing plants with electricity for decades, and at BAUMA will feature its RM H50X hybrid-powered screen and its RM XSMART software system at its “Meet the future” exhibit.
“As part of the RM NEXT philosophy, the RM Group is consistently supporting electrification and offers all of its crushers and screens as hybrid versions as a matter of principle,” the firm says. The machines can also be operated fully via electric power.
“A special focus is on combining machines to form crushing and screening trains so they can be operated together, the firm continues, adding, “This means, for example, that the crusher can also power the screen.”
In addition to electrification, RM Group says it is focusing on digitalization to give customers a full overview of their machines as they operate. The RM XSMART app has been designed so machine operators can network with their machines either using an app on their mobile devices or by using a web browser. “Fleet management, condition monitoring, end-to-end reporting, and troubleshooting support make everyday life much easier and, at the same time, increase productivity,” RM Group says of the app.
By networking the machines with each other, in a networked crushing and screening train, the machines can communicate with each other so they can adjust their output to sync with the upstream and downstream units, “or react to an event such as one of the machines in the train switching off,” according to the manufacturer.
More information on the RM Group’s product line can be found here.
The Superfund National Priorities List includes the nation’s most serious uncontrolled or abandoned releases of contamination.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is adding five sites to the Superfund National Priorities List. It is also proposing to add another two where releases of contamination pose significant human health and environmental risk.
"All people in this country, no matter the color of their skin, their ZIP code or income, deserve to live in communities free from harmful pollutants and contaminated lands,” says EPA Deputy Administrator Janet McCabe. “By adding sites to the Superfund National Priorities List, we are accelerating cleanups and working to ensure that more people living near the nation’s most serious uncontrolled or abandoned releases of contamination have the health and environmental protections they deserve.”
The Superfund National Priorities List includes the nation’s most serious uncontrolled or abandoned releases of contamination. The list serves as the basis for prioritizing EPA Superfund cleanup funding and enforcement actions. Only releases at nonfederal sites included on the Superfund National Priorities List are eligible to receive federal funding for long-term, permanent cleanup. Cleanup at federal facilities is funded by the lead federal agency responsible for the site.
The EPA says thousands of contaminated sites, from landfills and processing plants to manufacturing facilities exist nationally due to hazardous waste being dumped, left out in the open or otherwise improperly managed. President Biden’s bipartisan infrastructure law will accelerate the EPA’s work to help communities clean these contaminated sites with a $3.5 billion investment in the Superfund Remedial Program and reinstates the Superfund chemical excise taxes.
The EPA is adding the following sites to the Superfund National Priorities List:
Lower Hackensack River, Bergen and Hudson counties, New Jersey;
Brillo Landfill, Victory, New York;
Ochoa Fertilizer Co., Guánica, Puerto Rico;
Georgetown North Groundwater, Georgetown, Delaware; and
Highway 3 PCE, Le Mars, Iowa
The EPA is proposing to add the following sites to the Superfund National Priorities List:
East Basin Road Groundwater, New Castle, Delaware; and
PCE Carriage Cleaners, Bellevue, Nebraska
The agency says it is also withdrawing a previously proposed site, the East 10th Street site in Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, following its determination that the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection will continue to investigate and clean the site under its state cleanup authority.
The EPA proposes sites to the Superfund National Priorities List based on a scientific determination of risks to people and the environment, consistent with the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act and the National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan. Before it adds a site to the Superfund National Priorities List, a site must meet EPA’s requirements and proposed for addition to the list in the Federal Register, subject to a 60-day public comment period. The agency will add the site to the Superfund National Priorities List if it continues to meet the listing requirements after the public comment period closes and the agency has responded to any comments.
Superfund cleanups provide health and economic benefits to communities. The EPA says the program has helped reduce birth defects and blood-lead levels among children living near sites. Research has shown residential property values increase up to 24 percent within three miles of sites after cleanup.
As a result, communities are using previously blighted properties for a wide range of purposes, including retail businesses, office space, public parks, residences, warehouses and solar power generation. As of 2021, EPA has collected economic data on 650 Superfund sites. At these sites, 10,230 businesses are operating, 246,000 people employed, an estimated $18.6 billion in income earned by employees and $65.8 billion in sales generated by businesses.
For information about Superfund and the Superfund National Priorities List, click here.
The Finland company says Global Physical Asset Management’s inspection technology will complement Metso Outotec’s grinding products.
Metso Outotec, Helsinki, Finland, has completed the acquisition of Global Physical Asset Management, a technology provider based in Three Lakes, Wisconsin.
The value of the acquisition has not been disclosed. It will have no material impact on Metso Outotec’s financials, says the company.
Global Physical Asset Management’s innovative technologies and digital inspection method are patented and complementary to Metso Outotec’s service offering for grinding. This acquisition will bring more value to customers and support them in achieving reliable plant performance. The acquired technology enables 60 percent faster gear inspections with greater accuracy when compared to the use of conventional methods.
“I am very pleased about this important step toward our strategic target to become the preferred services provider in our industry,” Metso Outotec Services President Sami Takaluoma says. “The unique technology and digital inspection method fit excellently with our services strategy and grinding offering and will also bring potential to further develop our inspection capabilities for our crushing solutions. I warmly welcome our new colleagues to the Metso Outotec team.”
Metso Outotec has experience from designing, manufacturing and supplying over 8,000 grinding mills globally, including the manufacturing and supply for some of the largest semi-autogenous and autogenous mills in the world. With the acquisition of Global Physical Asset Management, Metso Outotec can leverage the strength of its extensive installed base and field service network and increase its capabilities to serve the third-party installed base.
“We are excited that we are now a part of a truly international company,” Global Physical Asset Management co-founders Tom and Jason Shumka say. “As Global Physical Asset Management joins Metso Outotec, its solutions will become available for customers globally.”
The value of the acquisition is not disclosed. It will have no material impact on Metso Outotec’s financials.
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Organization’s SOAR conference designed to feature new techniques in turning discarded materials into resources.
The Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA), Silver Spring, Maryland, has issued a call for proposed presentations to be made at its SOAR (Sustainability Operations Action Resources) event in 2023.
The 2023 edition of SOAR, which has a tagline of “Technical Solutions for Resource Management,” will take place April 17-20 in Atlanta.
SWANA Technical Divisions Manager Natalie Garcia has invited interested parties to submit a proposal for a presentation via a video clip emailed to SWANA members.
“Delivering practical solutions to the solid waste industry’s most difficult problems, SOAR showcases the promising technologies, ideas and solutions that transform waste into a resource,” the organization says.
Calling it SWANA’s “premier technical conference,” the group says SOAR has been designed to connect “experts and problem solvers in industry-changing conversations about [their] most complex challenges.”
SWANA says in its email to members, it “welcomes your novel ideas, approaches, and solutions for addressing our industry’s pressing issues. Your proposal should spark debate, learning, and innovation; envision a future that promotes waste as a resource; and show participants a way to get there.”
The state’s Carpet Stewardship Program 2021 annual report shows gains in recycling rate, yield and collection.
California’s Carpet Stewardship Program, an initiative of Carpet America Recovery Effort (CARE), Dalton, Georgia, has released its 2021 annual report on carpet recycling rates, which shows significant progress in 2021.
According to a news release from CARE, an organization aimed at increasing postconsumer carpet recovery rates, the program achieved an all-time high recycling rate of 27.9 percent, exceeding the 26 percent goal set in its five-year plan in 2021.
The report states that 76.4 percent of all the carpet collected in California in 2021 was recycled into new products, exceeding the program’s goal of 60 percent. This percentage, called the yield, has grown from 28 percent from 10 years ago. The growth is from expanded processing capacity, expanding markets for postconsumer carpet materials and technological advances, according to the organization.
“2021 was another year of major progress in the face of multiple challenges,” says CARE Executive Director Bob Peoples in a release. “I credit the hard work of the recyclers, retailers, installers and drop-off site staff. Over the years, we have built a robust system for collecting and recycling carpets that is unequaled anywhere. This is the first time the program has met the ambitious goals set forth in the five-year plan, and we are on track to continue this amazing progress.”
According to the California Carpet Stewardship Program’s 2021 Annual Report:
88.5 million pounds of postconsumer carpet collected across the state;
67 million pounds of recycled output produced;
more than 81 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions (MTC02E) were saved;
$23.1 million in subsidies were paid to support collectors, processors and manufacturers of recycled carpet material; and
more than $1.5 million in grant funding was invested in 2021. Since 2017, CARE has paid more than $9.5 million to grow carpet recycling via grants for capital improvement, product testing and collection expansion.
By the end of 2021, 94 CARE-sponsored public drop-off sites were located in the state, with all 58 counties having at least one. This is an increase of more than 200 percent from 44 public drop-off sites in 2017.
Through subsidies, grants and technical assistance, CARE supports increased collection and processing of carpets into products containing recycled carpet material. Twenty-seven vendors currently incorporate carpet in about 103 products, including 10 vendors in California. These products have industrial and retail applications, like automotive plastic components, rubber transition mats, building materials and absorbency products.
Download the 2021 California Carpet Stewardship Program Annual Report here.