East Texas home to new CM Chip Shredders.

Columbus McKinnon Corp. (CM), Sarasota, Fla., has sold two CM Chip Shredders to Merrick Construction Co., Cottonport, La. The two new Chip Shredders will be used as part of a tire pile clean up effort in east Texas. The Chip Shredders mark the fourth and fifth CM machines purchased by Merrick.

The clean-up in Atlanta, Texas, has been long awaited as the stockpile has plagued the area for some time. The site, scarred by some 30 million tires, is now in the process of being cleaned. Merrick is the contractor, working with funds from the Texas Commission of Environmental Quality (TCEQ).

Piles of tire shreds make up the majority of the material on the property. Small chips will be screened from the tire shreds prior to processing in the Chip Shredders, which work in tandem to produce a clean cut tire derived fuel (TDF) at throughput rates up to 15 tons per hour. The TDF is then removed from the property and shipped to Louisiana for use as a fuel supplement at paper mills within the state.

"With its simplistic design, the CM Chip Shredder offers a low cost, low maintenance solution to the customer's problems," says Rick Colyar, national sales manager for Columbus McKinnon's Sarasota Operations.