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Custom Liberator solves tire derived fuel wire challenge

Custom Liberator solves tire derived fuel wire challenge
A recent installation of interest has a CM Liberator working for Pulaski County Regional Solid Waste Management District, in the State of Arkansas. The system is working at the County’s authorized processing facility for the district, Davis Rubber Company, and is used to process steel belted passenger car and truck tire chips to minus 3/4 wire-free material. Davis Rubber Company, whose primary market is tire derived fuel (TDF) and Tire Derived Aggregate (TDA), both of which are used in Civil Engineering applications, found themselves in a situation facing many TDF producers today. That is – what to do with the wired material not suitable for TDF when other market opportunities are not available?After one and one half years of successful operation with his CM Tire Shredder, Mr. Davis discussed with Columbus McKinnon a way in which he could drive his costs lower by eliminating the waste generated by the separation of the high steel content material removed from the TDF flow by his cross belt magnetic separator.

The solution was the addition of a CM Liberator that was specifically designed to process steel belted passenger car and truck tire shreds or chips. Its unique design allows it to separate the wire from rubber tires in the purest, cleanest form possible, allowing processors to generate new revenue streams from both rubber and wire.

Another recent installation in Suffolk, Virginia at the Southeastern Public Service Authority (SPSA), has a CM Stationary Tire Shredding system working to process steel belted passenger and truck tires to TDF and Civil Engineering chips. The system replaces existing “Hook and Shear” style equipment.

The addition of the CM Tire Shredder, according to SPSA representatives, has allowed their organization to open the door to new markets and increased profits previously beyond reach.

First CM installation in JapanThe first CM Primary Tire Shredder and CM Liberator to be installed in Japan was purchased by the Takahashi Shoji Corporation, which is located on the north island of Hokkaido in the city of Obihiro.

Takahashi installed a Standard CM Tire Shredder equipped with a 1.5-inch classifier into their operation during the summer of 2003 to produce TDF for use as a supplemental fuel in a local paper mill. As the markets have evolved, the company has realized the need to have the capability of processing rear Farm Tires and OTRs and also the capability of producing wire-free products.

After taking a trip to the USA to see the CM equipment in operation, Mr. Takahashi was very pleased with the performance of the CM Primary Tire Shredder and its capability to process large truck and the smaller OTRs at rates of nearly 30 tons per hour. He also visited a site that is operating the New CM Liberator. This machine is capable of processing rough shred tire chips down to a wire-free product.

After seeing the Liberator in operation, he realized that this machine not only produces wire free material for his market but that the steel removed from the rubber would be clean enough for a local steel mill to purchase this material for feed stock. “I can now turn my waste product into a viable revenue stream,” says Mr. Takahashi.

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