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Moley Magnetics has some very exciting products for you. Moley Magnetics is now the distributor for StokkerMill Granulators in the United States and Canada. Some would say your business owning a StokkerMill granulator could become the most important fixed asset investment you’ll ever make due to its incredible fast R.O.I.! (more…)
Ice House Faces Demolition
Ice House Faces Demolition
Cars drive by the old Ice House on Broadway on May 21. Owner Mark Stevenson bought the property in 1980, but now a proposed CVS would require the demolition of the building.
Water lines run across the ceiling.
Johnathan Stevenson remembers going to the old Ice House on Broadway after his father bought the property in 1980, playing hide and seek in the building and practicing with his metal band after school in the basement. A CVS pharmacy proposed for the site would require demolition of the Ice House, 320 E. Broadway. The Ice House still houses artifacts from its time as an ice business: ice saws, water pumps, giant ice bins and ice notes that customers left outside their homes indicating how much ice they wanted. (more…)
National Public Works Week
National Public Works Week (May 17 – 23, 2015)
Author Dan Mc Nichol, who has driven a 1949 Hudson across the country to bring attention to road and bridge conditions, NPWW-posterhelped the American Public Works Association kick off National Public Works Week with an appearance in Washington, D.C. at the citys Public Works Fleet Campus. Instituted as a public education campaign by the American Public Works Association in 1960, NPWW calls attention to the importance of public works in community life. (more…)
Mattress Recycling Program Begins in Connecticut
The program, Bye Bye Mattress, will be administered by the Mattress Recycling Council, a nonprofit organization created by the mattress industry to develop and manage the statewide mattress collection program. The program, the first of its kind in the nation, was enacted in 2013 through the passage of Public Act, 13-42, which requires the mattress industry to create a recycling program for mattresses and box springs sold in the state. (more…)
ISRI Convention 2015: Copper Spotlight
ISRI Convention 2015: Copper Spotlight
The challenges seen with copper and copper scrap markets in the short term and where the metal may be headed over the next several years was the focal point of the Spotlight on Copper session, held during the recent Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries Inc. National Convention in Vancouver, British Columbia. Panelists at the session, including Patricia Mohr, an analyst with Scotia Bank; Herb Black, president of American Iron & Metal; and Adam Minter, a writer who covers the scrap recycling industry from an Asian perspective, highlighted a host of factors that have been driving copper and copper scrap markets. (more…)
Rail Safety Week 2015
Rail Safety Week 2015
Rail Safety Week is an annual Canadian and US wide initiative where rail operators and other organizations across the states come together to raise awareness about rail safety and encourage safe behavior around trains and tracks. Educating people through Operation Lifesavers rail safety programs will be critical to keeping them safe around increasing numbers of trains, railroad-rights-of-way and rail property. (more…)
The History of Earth Day
Each year, Earth Day – April 22 – marks the anniversary of what many consider the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970. Earth Day 1970 capitalized on the emerging consciousness, channeling the energy of the anti-war protest movement and putting environmental concerns front and center. The first Earth Day led to the creation of the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the passage of the Clean Air, Clean Water, and Endangered Species Acts. (more…)
Equipment Spotlight APR 2015 Magnets
Last year, Moley Magnetics Inc. a manufacture of Scrap Yard magnets, Shears and Grapples in Lockport, NY was visiting a customer, Don Smith of Don Smith & Sons Excavating, who was excavating and screening a scrap yard in an effort to recover ferrous and non-ferrous material previously lost underground. At first glance it seemed obvious that Don was making a great financial impact through this effort. While working part time in just one season Don recovered 750 tons of Ferrous and 250 tons of non-ferrous material. This instantly seemed like an opportunity to help all scrap yards ROI by eliminating waste due to lost materials. (more…)