Wendt offers stainless recovery technology.

Wendt Corp., Tonawanda, N.Y., is the exclusive North American distributor for a new line of equipment that recovers stainless steel and other metals that some recyclers are allowing to head to the landfill.

According to Wendt Corp., several types of metals that other eddy current machines and pickers might miss can be mined from mixed streams, including stainless steel, copper windings and insulated and bare copper wire.

"This new technology will recover lost revenue from your waste streams and promises to be a significant advancement to the shredding industry, like the introduction of eddy current separators in the 1990s," says Tom Wendt of Wendt Corp.

Rather than use magnetic strength, this technology uses a high frequency magnetic sensor to detect metals with a high-speed computer that fires an array of compressed air nozzles to eject metals from the waste stream.

Separation Systems Engineering GmbH (SSE), located in Wedel, Germany, created the technology. Since 1988,the SSE group of companies has sold more than 200 separators to various industries in 15 countries, including the U.S.

Wendt says SSE's technology is easily integrated into current nonferrous metal recycling systems.

Wendt Corp. demonstrates the technology at its facility near Buffalo, N.Y., and invites customers to bring their post eddy current material for processing and evaluation.