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Article: Gaining weight: thick, heavy bales can be a solution to thin paper recycling margins.(BALING EQUIPMENT FOCUS)
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- Recycling Today
- Article date:
- February 1, 2007
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Margins are paper thin in the paper baling business. While numerous factors restrict the overall efficiency of a paper recycling facility, recyclers can take steps to be more cost-effective. "They haven't changed balers much in the 35 years I've been in the business," says Tom Yanko, president of Associated Paper Stock Inc., North Lima, Ohio. His main concern is packing his 53-foot trailers full.
"You want to haul as heavy as you can," he says. He wants bales that are dense, a convenient size for his trucks and that don't fall apart.
DENSE VIEWPOINT. "The most important thing to do is to get good bale density," says Joe Szany, director of Nexgen Baling ...