Eriez, based in Erie, Pennsylvania, has received trademark registration from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for the distinctive orange color of its industrial eddy current separators.

The equipment manufacturer says the company received Trademark Registration Number 4,780,594 for the color orange for its industrial eddy current separators for separation of magnetic solids from nonmagnetic solids in Class 7 (machines and machine tools), according to the Patent and Trademark Office.

Eriez eddy current separators are designed to efficiently separate aluminum and other nonferrous metals from complex streams of materials. The machines are in use in a number of applications, including downstream automobile and metal shredding systems, downstream electronic scrap shredding systems, wire and cable processing, aluminum used beverage container (UBC) separation in material recovery facilities (MRFs), removing metallic contaminants in plastic recycling and reprocessing plants, waste-to-energy (WTE) metals recovery from ash, and mixed waste processing (“dirty MRF”).

Eriez eddy current separators are available in feed widths of 24, 36, 48 and 60 inches (610, 914, 1,220 and 1,524 millimeters). Customers can select from models with concentric and eccentric rotor designs.

“The color orange has been synonymous with Eriez since the company’s beginning in 1942,” says Charlie Ingram, vice president of sales and marketing. “The trademark registration for the color orange on our eddy current separators gives us the opportunity to strengthen our branding even more in the marketplace.”

To learn more about Eriez’s line of eddy current separators, visit www.eriez.com/Products/Index/Edrec.