Three leading suppliers of scrap recycling equipment have announced the formation of a joint venture and the launch of a new company that they say will serve the changing needs of a changing scrap metal industry. The new company, 3TEK Global, incorporates product engineering, manufacturing and product support from Granutech-Saturn Systems, Peninsula Equipment and Riverside Engineering. The combined company headquarters are in Grand Prairie, Texas.
Granutech-Saturn Systems, based in Grand Prairie, manufactures Saturn heavy-duty shredders and hammermills, MAC crushers and loggers, grinders and granulators, powderizers and refiner mills.
Peninsula Equipment, based in Columbia, South Carolina, is a sales, rental and service company serving the scrap, contracting, construction and aggregate processing industries of Florida, Georgia and South Carolina.
Riverside Engineering, based in San Antonio, provides shredder designs, technology and engineering services for the metal recycling industry.
3TEK Global was created to bring the next line of mobile and stationary hammermill shredders and related downstream separation equipment to the small to medium-sized yards processing less than 50 tons per hour.
Bill Padula, vice president of Peninsula Equipment and vice president of sales for 3TEK Global, says, “The industry is changing. 3TEK’s core focus is to provide innovative technology, based upon proven platforms manufactured in the U.S.A., that help small to midsized scrap processors take control of growing their business.”
Matthew Morrison, president of Granutech Saturn Systems, calls the joint venture “the best of breed scenario.” He adds, “The 3TEK NEXT product line incorporates the hammermill and downstream separation designs of Riverside Engineering, the Caterpillar engines and product support capabilities of Peninsula Equipment and couples them with the 50 years of manufacturing expertise (Big MAC Crushers) Granutech-Saturn brings to the scrap industry. It’s a powerful combination, and we are proud to be a part of it,” he says.
The 3TEK Next 7400 mobile shredder hammermill system will incorporate a Cat 2,100-horsepower mobile “on track” diesel-power module design, with unique power pack options and other modular downstream equipment specifically designed to facilitate ferrous and nonferrous scrap processing close to the source, says the company. While also available in a traditional stationary model, the Next 7400 mobile hammermill is unique in providing a powerful hammermill design on a mobile platform, the company says. This brings the characteristics of much larger hammermills to a compact package that can be fully installed, functional and shredding in three days.
“Unlike other attempts at small-scale scrap processing, the 3TEK design delivers a mill capable of providing very clean, dense, furnace-ready scrap. We’ve leveraged 50 years of shredder design knowledge to create a 74-inch shredder encompassing the durability and efficiency of Riverside’s Megashredder product line,” says Randy Brace, president of Riverside Engineering.
The company says the product will be in production in the second quarter 2016, with follow-up releases in 2017 to include a smaller unit, the 3TEK Next 6000, a 60-inch diameter hammermill shredder in both stationary and mobile configurations, which will include a Cat 1,125-horsepower Next Power Module.
3TEK Global representatives will be on hand during the Instutite of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) Convention & Exposition at the Granutech-Saturn Booth No. 2043 and Riverside Engineering Booth No. 164 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas.
More information is available at www.3TEKglobal.com.
