Equipment

According to a release from Indeco, the company will be able to warehouse approximately 35 percent more spare parts at the new facility, and the company expects an improvement in the efficiency of its repair shop as well.

The new facility is located at 135 Research Dr., Milford, Conn. More information is available at www.indeco-breakers.com.

A-WARD INTRODCUES CONTAINER TILTER

New Zealand-based A-Ward Attachments has introduced the ACT series of self-contained container tilting units.

The container tipper is designed to ease loading of bulk products into containers. Container and trailer chassis are backed into the unit, and the container is locked at eight points onto the tilter’s lifting arms. The tilter hydraulically raises the container from 0 to 90 degrees for loading with a loader, material handler and conveyor.

Simon Ward, A-Ward Attachments Ltd. director and chief engineer, designed the unit after listening to several customers complain about their current container loading systems’ lack of safety and efficiency.

"Overwhelmingly, people needed a faster way to load containers without putting operators and laborers in harm’s way," he says.

More information is available at www.a-ward.co.nz.

TRAMAC CELEBRATES 40TH ANNIVERSARY

Tramac Corp. and Tramac Equipment Ltd. marked their 40th anniversary in October.

To commemorate the occasion, company president Denis Bataille arranged a celebration at the Fairmont Le Manoir in Charlevoix, Quebec, for all of the company’s North American employees and their spouses. Key employees of Tramac Benelux in Belgium also joined in the festivities. Activities included a reception, dinner and a whale watching boat trip.

Tramac Corp. (originally American Tradex) was established in 1966 by Jacques Bataille and continues to be managed by the Bataille family. In addition to its U.S. operations, which recently introduced Muscle Mate attachments, Tramac Equipment Ltd. operates throughout Canada and Tramac-Benelux operates in Belgium and Luxembourg.

In the United States, Tramac markets stationary boom systems and excavator attachments under the Muscle Mate brand. The company markets hydraulic hammers, plate compactors, excavator attachments and stationary boom systems in Canada, Belgium and Luxembohurg.

More information about Tramac and its product line is available at www.tramac.com.

MORBARK HOSTS DEMO DAYS

Nearly 100 customers and dealers of grinder manufacturer Morbark Inc. attended the company’s Demo Days at its headquarters in Winn, Mich., in October 2006.

Attendees toured the new, 40,000-square-foot-office facility as well as the manufacturing plant.

In addition, Morbark demonstrated eight pieces of equipment at an outdoor testing site, including four with particular applications for C&D recyclers: the 660 Wood Hog horizontal grinder, which is powered by a 1,000-hp engine and uses an 18-hammer pattern; a Predator low-speed, high-torque shredder with a 455-hp engine and a 350 loader with a 26-foot boom; a 1600 tub grinder, which is powered by a 1,200-hp engine and has a twin disc wet clutch with gear reduction drive; and a 3600 Wood Hog with a 455-hp engine.

More information about Morbark and the products demonstrated at Demo Days can be found at www.morbark.com.

TEREX FINLAY APPOINTS DEALER

North Atlantic Machinery, Gorham, Maine, is now the dealer for all Terex Finlay products in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and Massachusetts.

The dealership was founded in 1997 and specializes in sales and full service of aggregates and recycling equipment.

The owner and president is Gary Harmon. The company has a total of eight employees at the Gorham facility, and an additional location is planned for southern New Hampshire in the future.

North Atlantic Machinery handles the full line of Terex Finlay equipment, including screening plants, wash plants, trommels, impact crusher plants, jaw crusher plants, conveyors and related equipment.

Terex Finlay is part of Terex Crushing and Screening, Louisville, Ky.

More information is available at www.namachinery.com and www.terex.com.

APPOINTMENT AT HAMMEL

Hammel New York, Holtsville, N.Y., has announced the appointment of Donald K. Cotrona to the Hammel shredder team as the regional sales manager for the Northeast region of the United States.

Cotrona brings more than 10 years of experience selling wood recycling equipment in the Northeast to his new position at Hammel.

More information is available at www.hammelny.com.

ERIN APPOINTS FIEDLER TO INTERNATIONAL POST

Premier Tech Systems, Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec, Canada, has appointed Howard Fiedler as its new international recycling sales and marketing manager for its Erin brand C&D recycling systems.

Fiedler, a 15 year veteran of Erin Systems, previously acted as North American sales manager for the brand’s mobile range of screening equipment and played a key role in growing its U.S. sales from $1 million to $20 million, according to the company.

"Premier Tech Systems is well-positioned to take advantage of the strong industry growth in the C&D recycling market, as its two Erin screening technologies (fingerscreening and starscreening) have proven to represent the leading primary and secondary screening technologies for C&D recyclers throughout the U.S.," a company news release states.

More information can be found online at www.erinsystems.com/screening/. C&DR