Wendt has named Richard (Rick) Howe as its new Engineering Manager.

 Mr. Howe, formerly Director of Engineering for Hover-Davis, Inc, will lead all aspects of the company’s engineering functions.  Rick’s experience includes nearly 20 years in professional engineering, sales, marketing, and management with an emphasis on leading successful start-ups.  In addition to his tenure as Director of Engineering with Hover-Davis, Rick also served as their VP of Global Sales and Marketing.  He has also successfully started his own business as well as revitalized an industrial distribution company.

 Rick will report directly to Tom Wendt, President of Wendt Corporation. “We are excited to welcome Rick as Wendt continues to grow. Rick’s experience and background in engineering, sales, and leadership will be an asset to our company,” Tom commented, “We are consistently investing to improve and expand our product line while streamlining our processes.  Rick will play a key role in these efforts as Wendt strives to lead the industry and exceed our customer’s expectations.”

Visit Wendt, TITECH, mtb Recycling, and Bowe Rotors in Booth 1011 at the 2011 ISRI Convention in Los Angeles, CA. The convention will run from April 5 thru April 9 at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

Representatives from Wendt, TITECH, mtb Recycling, and Bowe will be on hand to answer questions about automobile shredding, non ferrous separation systems, shredder rotors, wire chopping, and tire recycling. 

We look forward to seeing you there.

Copper prices have reached record levels and are forecasted to keep rising. The growing demand in developing countries like India and China, mixed with limited supply, have many forecasting the current prices of $4.00 per pound to increase even higher. This trend has shredder operators asking how they can capitalize on this opportunity and remove copper from their Zorba.

The answer to this question is the Wendt/TITECH CombiSense. The CombiSense is a high-production separation machine used in sorting different types of shredded non-ferrous feed stock to produce high purity metal fractions. The CombiSense uses a combination of sensor technology and the most advanced high resolution cameras to separate material by color, shape, size, conductivity, and brightness. Various materials can be targeted and separated including brass, zinc, stainless steel, circuit boards, coins, and most importantly copper.

One operator who has already figured this out and is currently capitalizing on today’s market conditions is Bobby Helbein at Southern Metals Co. in Charlotte, North Carolina. Around 2007, Bobby decided he wanted to capture the incremental value that his brokers were benefiting from by separating his metal and creating high grade products.

After researching the process, Bobby contacted Wendt to have his materials tested by our TITECH CombiSense.  He liked the results that he saw and he purchased the unit to replace his hand-pickers. “We tried to pick as much copper and brass as we could, but there is no way you can hand-pick as well as this machine can find it.” Bobby currently uses the CombiSense to separate zinc, stainless steel, brass, and copper.  He believes he has improved “from a 40% sort to almost 100%.” Within two years, it was clear to Bobby that he had already paid-off his machine. “I am glad I made this purchase. It has performed beyond my expectations – it is absolutely doing what the folks at Wendt Corporation said it would and more.” Bobby continued that the after-the-sale support “has been outstanding and I couldn’t ask for better customer service.”

Contact Wendt to find out how you can use the CombiSense to capitalize on today’s copper market opportunities.

Come learn about Wendt Shredding and Separation Systems at ISRI’s Northern Ohio & Pittsburgh Chapters Joint Vendor Expo on Wednesday, Jan 19, 2011 at Avalon Golf and Country Club Buhl Park in Hermitage, Pennsylvania. Wendt will have a booth to answer any questions you have about copper and non-ferrous separation and inform you about the latest in shredder technology. We hope to see you there.

TITECH, a maker of sensor-based sorting systems, has announced an enhancement to its product portfolio with the launch of an x-ray-based sorting machine that enables the fast and effective recovery of copper from shredded ferrous scrap.  The equipment will be available from Wendt Corp, the exclusive representative in North America for TITECH’s metal recycling equipment.  Read the full release in the current issue of Recycling Today.

Wendt Corporation will be at Expo Sucata in Sao Paulo, Brasil on September 28, 29, and 30; and in Hong Kong on November 15-18 at the 5th World Recycling Forum.  Booth assignments are still to be announced.  For more details or to schedule an appointment contact Mark Ridall or call 716.566.3206.

Without a doubt, ICW (insulated copper wire) is the hottest topic in non-ferrous recovery.  An upcoming article in the September issue of Recycling Today will give an overview of the topic and outline how Wendt/TITECH Technology is specifically designed to recover insulated wire present in after-shredder residue (ASR).