Wendt offers Stainless Separator.

A 120-inch-wide Stainless Steel Separator manufactured in the U.S. is now available from Wendt/SSE. The equipment is designed to recover metals that may currently be heading to the landfill in the post-shredder stream, including stainless steel, copper windings and insulated and bare copper wire.

Wendt/SSE reports that it has sold more than 70 separators worldwide to the scrap recycling industry. Sales in 2004 have included units shipped to a Metal Management Inc. facility in Memphis, Tenn.; to Conservit Inc. in Hagerstown, Md.; to Prospect Metal in York, Pa.; and to Don's Scrap in Hemmingway, S.C.

Wendt says that its 2003 SSE customers have reported rapid returns, with one customer calculating a 60-day payback period. Wendt anticipates that the wider 12C-inch Stainless Steel Separator "will provide even more cost effective productivity with very quick returns on investment and even greater TPH throughput."

Wendt Corp., Tonawanda, N.Y., is the exclusive North American distributor for the technology created by Separation Systems Engineering GmbH (SSE), based in Wedel, Germany. Product development of the technology will remain in Germany.

Wendt is designing and fabricating the SSE separators at its Tonawanda facility. The company says features common to its eddy current product line will now be incorporated into the SSE sorters, including adjustability of operating parameters to maximize recovery; one-piece belt replacement; "Scrap Duty" construction; and low maintenance requirements.