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CP Mfg. buys MSS sorting line.


Recycling equipment maker CP Manufacturing Inc., National City, Calif., has acquired high-tech sorting equipment maker MSS MSS - maximum segment size  Inc. of Nashville, Tenn.

"We can now offer our customers fully automated material recovery systems with a single source design and system operational responsibility," Robert M. Davis, president of CP Manufacturing, says.

"We see fully automated sorting of plastic, glass and paper as the future in material recovery facilities (MRFs)," says John O. Willis, CP's vice president of sales and marketing. "And we believe the future is now."

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MSS has designed optical sorting equipment to identify and separate material based on color, including the PaperSort system for paper, the ColorSort system for glass and the Aladdin system for plastics.

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Title Annotation:Equipment Report
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Publication:Recycling Today
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Date:Oct 1, 2003
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