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I t’s little wonder that eastern red cedar has been
called “public enemy No. 1.”
In Oklahoma, alone, the invasive species
has already taken over some 8 million acres of
land, converting the ecosystem from grasslands
it [red cedar] reaches a certain size, it’s almost a
threshold, and you can’t get rid of it without very
expensive mechanical treatment. The cost of that
is prohibitive.”
A similar situation with the trees is occurring
Colorants
and native diverse prairie where cattle graze to a throughout the Southern Great Plains, he says.
Colorbiotics – pg 9
red cedar woodland. A two-year study by Will and other researchers
Mushroom Compost “The red cedar woodland has a lot lower at Oklahoma State offers what they say is a viable
Hy-Tech Mushroom Compost – pg 20 biodiversity, a lot lower wildlife value and a lot use for the pesky trees: mulch.
less aesthetic value,” says Rodney Will, a professor “Given concerns about the future availability
Shredders, Grinders, Chippers in the department of natural resource ecology of woody residuals and harvesting trees of
& Screening Systems and management at Oklahoma State University intact, functioning ecosystems for use as mulch,
in Stillwater. sources such as eastern red cedar . . . may provide
Allu Group Inc – pg 12
Much like something out of a science-fiction alternatives to traditional cypress, hardwood, and
Doppstadt – pg 15
movie about an alien invasion, the bushy and pine mulch,” according to the study by Will, Adam
McCloskey International – pg 18 scraggly native red cedar trees are reportedly taking Maggard, Thomas Hennessey, Craig McKinley
Morbark Inc. – pg 2 over nearly 800 acres of land a day in Oklahoma. and Janet Cole.
Peterson – pg 7 They are costing the state hundreds of millions “In regard to plant growth and soil variables,
Premier Tech Chronos – pg 13 of dollars a year — due to decreased grazing, red cedar has ranked among the best of all of the
Rotochopper Inc. – pg 17 increased water consumption, reduced recreation mulch types we are studying,” says Maggard,
Screen Machine Industries – pg 6 opportunity and increased wildfires — as well who wrote his graduate thesis on the study and
Screen USA – pg 19 as the untold costs to landowners attempting to is currently working toward his doctorate at
West Salem Machinery – pg 8 remove the trees and stem their incursion. Oklahoma State.
Wildcat Mfg Co – pg 23 “Right now to clear it, it costs a rancher, farmer “Basically, the bottom line is, if you like the
or landowner at minimum several hundred dollars way it looks, you should use it,” he says.
Used Equipment an acre . . .” Will says, noting that clearing the trees The study, begun in 2009, was designed to
EarthSaver Equipment – pg 20 generally entails cutting them down, stacking them compare red cedar mulch to seven commonly used
and then conducting prescribed burns. “But once Continued on page 3
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pine, hardwood and grand eucalyptus. The study His father, Richard Newton, runs the Eastern
also included two non-mulched controls, one with Red Cedar Products lumber mill in Marengo, Ind.
Publisher / Editor chemical weed control and the other without. The mill makes products from eastern red cedar
Rick Downing The study was funded by the Oklahoma Center logs ranging from hippogriff nests in the Wizarding
for the Advancement of Science and Technology. World of Harry Potter at Universal Studios theme
Each mulch was applied 3 inches deep to park in Florida to fencing material.
Contributing plots measuring 1.5 meters in diameter. In the How much sway the Oklahoma State study
Editors / Writers first year of the study, plots were both in shade, will have with the public remains to be seen.
open sun and open sun with tilled soil. The second Like Aaron Newton, Will hopes the public will
P.J. Heller year of the study was conducted in full sun. Plants embrace the use of red cedar mulch.
in the plots included annuals, perennials and “My take on it is, living where I live and seeing
trees, all of which would commonly be found in what I see every day, we should be using eastern
Production & Layout landscape applications. red cedar mulch more than the other products,”
Barb Fontanelle “We wanted to mimic what you would see Will says.
around landscaping,” Maggard explains. Not only is eastern red cedar mulch produced
Christine Pavelka Will, Maggard and others say red cedar from a local product, but its use is “benefiting the
mulch has traditionally gotten a bad rap, with larger picture,” he adds.
Advertising Sales unsubstantiated claims about it harming plants and Other than benefiting the local ecosystem, the
“sucking” moisture from the soil. researchers report there was little difference among
Rick Downing “There are a lot of misconceptions out there the mulches in the study.
about eastern red cedar,” Will says. “One of the “All mulch is good,” Will says in summing
Subscription / Circulation things we heard was that it had chemicals that up the findings.
would kill horticultural plants and trees . . . In my “All the mulches seemed to perform on the
Donna Downing mind it didn’t make sense. We set out to try to same standard compared to each other,” Maggard
demonstrate that eastern red cedar mulch was as agrees. “We found no significant differences among
good, or hopefully better, than some other common the different mulch types.
Editorial, Circulation wood-based mulches.” “The biggest difference we found was using
& Advertising Office “We basically found no adverse effects of mulch versus not using mulch,” he adds. “Basically
6075 Hopkins Road using red cedar mulch,” Maggard says. “It’s safe what that says is that mulch matters, but the type of
to use.” mulch you use does not necessarily matter. There
Mentor, OH 44060 That’s especially good news for companies are some benefits and some drawbacks to different
Ph: 440-257-6453 such as Eastern Red Cedar Mulch based in mulch types, such as appearance or decomposition
Stillwater. The company, which has been producing rates. They all perform about the same. There are
Fax: 440-257-6459 red cedar mulch for almost eight years, hopes the slight differences and attributes, but nothing to say
Email: downassoc2@oh.rr.com study will spur more usage of the product. one stands out dramatically more from another.”
“It’s just a matter of getting the word out,” says Will agrees, noting, “Red cedar mulch was as
Aaron Newton, who runs the Oklahoma operation good as any of the other mulch products tested.”
For subscription information, with his wife. “It seems that the market is growing. Among the key benefits of using mulch was its
please call 440-257-6453. More and more people seem to be using cedar than ability to hold soil moisture and to suppress weed
when we first started.” growth, he says.
The company sells and ships bulk mulch According to the study, “Use of tree-based
Soil & Mulch Producer News is throughout Oklahoma and to surrounding states. mulches . . . increased plant growth (annuals
published quarterly by Downing “One reason we expanded to go out of state and trees) and survival, maintained greater soil
is because there’s only so much cedar mulch you moisture, suppressed weed growth, and moderated
& A s s o c i a t e s. Re p r o d u c t i o n s
can sell in-state,” Newton says. “There’s so much soil temperature.”
or transmission of Soil & Mulch red cedar available, but there’s only so much you With little difference in pricing, choosing
Producer News, in whole or in part, can do with it as far as mulch goes.” among the various mulches on the market comes
without written permission of the Newton estimates he produces 400 tractor- Continued on page 6
publisher is prohibited.
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n an effort to conserve water, cities along Colorado’s Front Range have “We have a long history of conservation,” Elliott says. “Part of that is our
implemented programs to encourage — or in some cases to require — history of promoting xeriscape and educating our customers, and amending the
property developers to amend soil with compost in order to lessen the soil is part of wise landscaping practices that we promote. The [2002] drought
need for watering. really made us realize how vulnerable we might be to those types of climatic
“We firmly believe that getting landscaping in that’s healthy and has a changes. In fact, we’re in another very similar drought this year. But what’s
chance to retain moisture, sets the homeowner or property owner up for using been great is that our customers have conserved so much water — and we did
much less water over time,” notes Melissa Elliott, assistant director of public have a wet year last year — that the effect on our customers has not been as
affairs for Denver Water. severe as it was in 2002.”
Denver Water, the largest water utility in the state, serves some 1.3 million Coming out of that previous drought, Denver Water officials realized they
people in Denver and surrounding suburbs. It requires any new development or could not just rely on educating customers about water conservation, but had
redevelopment to amend its soil with compost prior to obtaining a water meter. to enact operating rules when new development occurred.
“Before Denver Water will set new meters, property owners must amend “That was the real vision coming out of that drought and the impetus for
their soil with compost so the soil more efficiently retains water,” the agency getting the program started,” Elliott says.
states. “This rule applies to all new residential, commercial, government and Composting could play an important role in other areas, with the worst
industrial properties within Denver Water’s service area.” drought in more than a half century spreading this summer over much of the
Denver Water, which has had water conservation measures in place for United States. According to the U.S. Drought Monitor, as of early July, 61
decades and is credited with coining the term “xeriscape”, implemented the percent of the contiguous U.S. experienced drought conditions. That marked
composting requirement following several years of drought in the early 2000s. the largest percentage of the nation experiencing drought conditions in the
“Coming out of that drought, our board really wanted us to step up our 12-year record of the U.S. Drought Monitor. Authorities have already declared
water conservation efforts and our program throughout our service area,” more than 1,300 counties in 31 states as natural disaster areas, typically those
Elliott says. that have experienced severe drought for eight consecutive weeks.
A six-month pilot program involving some of the largest builders in the Amending soil with compost is just one of the water conservation efforts
area was launched in 2008. The goal of the pilot program, Elliott says, was by Denver Water, whose goal is to cut water consumption by 22 percent by
to create a rule that wouldn’t be detrimental to developers and which would 2016. A “massive” education campaign called “use only what you need” is
benefit customers long-term. part of water conservation efforts, along with such things as rebates, incentives
“We wanted to reach out and talk to all of the stakeholders and make sure and irrigation audits.
that particularly housing developers and home builders and landscapers and “We’re well on out way to doing that,” says Elliott of meeting the 22
architects really understood why we were doing this,” she explains. percent savings goal.
By 2009, the composting program was up and running. Today, Denver So far, customers have achieved a 20 percent reduction in water usage,
Water does some 1,000 inspections a year to ensure developers and landscapers she reports.
are complying with the requirement of applying 4 cubic yards of compost “This [composting] program is part of that effort,” she says.
for every 1,000 square feet of yard, according to Brandi Honeycutt, water Justin Ball, general manager of GVR Landscape, sums up the water
conservation office technician. situation along the Front Range by noting, “We don’t have a whole lot of
In 2011, the agency reported that some 16.5 million gallons of water were water out here right now. We have to do whatever we can to try to save it.”
saved through soil amendment efforts, based on the square footage amended, Ball says landscapers embraced composting even before its use was
along with other factors. In the first four months of 2012, it reports that 5 required by Denver Water for new development or redevelopment. Much of
million gallons of water have been saved. the soil in the area is clay and sand.
Those savings come none too soon, with the semi-arid Front Range — “It [compost] provides the plant material a better chance of success,”
the most populous region of the state which stretches from Fort Collins in the Ball says. “Basically, we’re trying to grow grass and shrubs in a desert here.
north to Pueblo in the south, with those cities located just east of the foothills It’s really not conducive to the things we plant, so you have to do everything
of the Front Range — again facing drought conditions. you can to try to make it thrive. Between irrigation and good soil prep you
A Stage 1 drought was declared in April by Denver Water, with customers get pretty good results.”
urged to voluntarily cut back outdoor water usage. Annual mandatory summer Elliott adds that even without Denver Water’s soil amendment rule, “99
water restrictions — which ban outdoor watering between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. percent of developers and landscapers would do it anyway because it’s kind
from May 1 to Sept. 30 and limiting watering to only three days a week — of an industry standard and the benefits are perceived.”
were already in place. Continued on next page
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Mystic, Connecticut he U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment)
served as convener for the first-ever Canada/U.S. Forest Health Summit.
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Two new reports issued recently by the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and the Pinchot ena, Germany—Creating energy from forest
Institute for Conservation are designed to shed light on the complex nature of this segment of the renewable biomass is a growing industry, but now
energy market. scientists are beginning to say that such
The reports examine economic, environmental and policy implications of the expanding wood pellet large-scale bioenergy production will actually
market. European Power from U.S. Forests documents how E.U. policy is shaping the transatlantic trade increase greenhouse gas emissions. A study in
in wood biomass. Pathways to Sustainability evaluates the programs and practices available to pellet Global Change Biology/Bioenergypostis put
producers to meet European buyers’ sustainability expectations and requirements. forth by scientists at the Max-Planck Institute for
“The E.U. has a strong renewable energy policy, but countries don’t have enough forest or agricultural Biogeochemistry, Oregon State University, and
land to meet the increasing demand for wood biomass,” said Will McDow, EDF forestry conservation universities in Switzerland, Austria and France,
manager. “The U.S. has the biomass resources and sustainable forest management programs. The two and supported by several agencies in Europe and
must be linked. Landowners and biomass producers on both sides of the Atlantic can encourage market the U.S. Department of Energy, found that a major
development and meet environmental objectives.” increase in forest biomass production will lead to
younger forests, depleted soil nutrients, increased
erosion, loss of biodiversity and function, and
higher costs for bioenergy, as well as increased use
of fertilizers, which are also a source of greenhouse
gas emissions.
Global Power
The article raises important issues for bioenergy
policies. The report studied an industry that would
be based on large-scale use of biofuels in forestlands
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3. Bioenergy production from forests could lead
to faulty management practices and increased
dependence on wood imports, as well as
possible negative impacts on vegetation, soil
fertility, water and ecosystem diversity;
4. While the Industrial Revolution decreased
use of forests for fuel and let degraded
forests recover in Europe and the U.S., the
industrial-scale use of forests for biomass
would probably have the opposite effect. It
would be better, says the research, to produce
biofuels on previously forested land while at
the same time not harming food and animal
forage production.
“Society should fully quantify direct and
indirect greenhouse gas emissions associated with
energy alternatives, and associated consequences,
prior to making policy commitments that have
long-term effects on global forests,” the authors
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The Sheraton Hotel carbon in domestic forest soils. Heating soil in forests in Wisconsin and north
of Wisconsin, by 10 and 20 degrees, increased their release of carbon dioxide
165 Courtland St. by up to as many as eight times, showing for the first time that carbon in topsoil
Save the Date!!! by warming as is newer soil. The forests of the Northeast have till now been
seen as useful carbon sinks, holding nearly 26 billion tons of carbon, but now
scientists believe trees and soils could become sources of emissions.
“Our results suggest that large stores of carbon that built up over the last
October 31-
century as forests recovered will erode with rising temperatures,” said Susan
Trumbore of the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry. They serve as
uncontrollable carbon dioxide sources.
November 1, 2012 Funding for the study was provided by the National Science Foundation, the
ARCS Foundation, and a Ralph J. & Carol M. Cicerone Graduate Fellowship,
with additional support from the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Forest
Service, Michigan Technological University and the Canadian Forest Service.
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chemicals and products, but these fungi love such conditions. . ortland, OR—The U.S. Forest Service’s
Fewer than 40 of such heat-loving fungi have been identified, and they hold great promise in the Pacific Northwest Research Station and the
production of many chemicals and biomass-based fuels, according to the study’s senior author, Adrian Climate Impacts Group at the University of
Tsang, a biology professor at Concordia University and director of its Centre for Structural and Functional Washington have published a study in the July issue
Genomics. The scientists’ next goal is to determine how these organisms flourish at high temperatures of Ecological Applications that shows that by 2040,
and what makes them so efficient in breaking down plant materials. parts of Washington State could lose as much as a
The discovery will support the goal of finding better ways to transform green waste into renewable third of the carbon stores due to increasing wildfire.
chemicals and fuels and be used to replace environmentally harmful chemicals in the manufacture of It is the first study to use statistical models and
plant-based commodities such as pulp and paper. Forest Inventory and Analysis data to investigate
This study was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, the Cellulosic Biofuel Network of the effects of a warming climate on carbon storage
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Genome Canada and Génome Québec. For more information, go to on Washington’s woodlands.
www.concordia.ca/now/what-we-do/research/20111003/from-compost-to-sustainable-fuels.php. “When considering the use of forests to store
carbon, it will be critical to consider the increasing
risk of wildfire,” said Crystal Raymond, a research
biologist based at the station’s Pacific Wildland Fire
Sciences Laboratory and lead author of the study.
In a look at how climate changes affects
wildfire and how this in turn will affect the ability of
Washington’s forests to act as carbon repositories,
the study explored published forest-inventory
data, fire-history data, and statistical models of
area burned to determine the carbon carrying
capacity of the Western Cascades, the Eastern
Cascades, and the Okanogan. By looking at living
and nonliving biomass, which respectively remove
carbon from the atmosphere and then release it over
time as the material decomposes, the study found
the woodlands of the Western Cascades to be the
most sensitive to climate-driven increases in fire,
while projecting a decrease in live biomass of from
17% to 26%, in the Eastern Cascades and in the
Okanogan Highlands, by 2040.
For more information, go to www.fs.fed.us/
pnw/news/2012/07/warming-climate.shtml.
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with head offices in Bad Oeynhausen,
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GmbH, Edewecht. The new entity, Eggersmann
Anlagenbau BACKHUS GmbH, is overseen by
CEOs Karlgünter Eggersmann and Thomas Hein,
uscc@compostingcouncil.org and by Friedrich Backhus, who will stay on as a
consultant.
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BACKHUS composting systems, the “BACKHUS”
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ustin, TX—Statesman.com reports that a private and unpopular
biomass power plant owned by Nacogdoches Power LLC and fueled
by wood waste recently went on line for the city-owned Austin Energy,
generating $2 billion worth of electricity for the next 20 years. The facility has
100 mW of generating capacity to power some 66,000 homes on a 24/7/365
basis, unlike solar and wind.
Local activists opposed the plan from the start, believing it was
unrealistic, expensive and too non-transparent and hurried, and without
community support. The cost would be 9 cents per kWh at the beginning
and jump to 16 cents per kWh, far higher than the cost of natural gas and
” wind and almost certainly higher than a proposed nuclear plant expansion
would have been. When the deal was made in 2008, fracked natural gas
was new and cost around 14 cents per kWh; it is now 2 cents per kWh.
Austin Energy now gets 291 mW of coastal wind, also new when the deal
was struck, for just over 4 cents per kWh. Austin Energy will not have to
pay if the plant runs short of fuel, gained from sawmill, yard and logging
waste, with no clear cutting permitted.
Austin Energy thought carbon-capping legislation would increase the
cost of non-renewable energy by 3 cents per kWh, a cost not applicable
to biomass. It is expected that Congress will pass carbon legislation in the
foreseeable future, supporting the biomass decision.
The plant is unpopular because the company estimates that it will
add $1.94 to an average monthly bill of around $100, supported in part
For agenda and registration details, please visit by as yet unrealized federal taxes that would increase the cost of carbon-
www.compost.org or call based fuels. The plant would enable Austin Energy to obtain 25% of its
1-877-571-4769(GROW) electricity from renewable sources by 2013, an important initiative that it
has undertaken, with a goal of 35% by 2020.
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2Q/12, according to the North American Wood Fiber Review. The main reason for the os Angeles—Fresnobee.com reports that
Southern California is sending up to 500,000
declining prices is the continued fall of natural gas prices to levels not seen in ten years. tons a year of its sewage sludge into San
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Joaquin Valley’s new mega-composting project,
eattle, WA—Prices for woody biomass in the US, whether sawmill by-products, forest residues where the Sanitation District of Los Angeles
or urban wood waste, have been sliding for most of the past three years, but were still higher late County has purchased 14,500 acres of farmland,
in 2011 in most regions than they were five years ago, according to the North American Wood where it will be mixed with debris from area
Fiber Review. farming and used as a soil nutrient to help grow
In the 2Q/12, woody biomass prices were down between 2-10 percent in the key biomass-consuming cotton, wheat, nuts, fruits and other crops. The
regions, the US South, Northeast and in the West as compared to the 1Q/12. In the US Northwest and bio-solids will arrive late next summer.
California there continues to be a substantial price discrepancy between mill biomass and forest biomass, The $120 million project has survived many
but this price difference is minimal in the US South. appeals and a lawsuit over air quality and resulted
During 2011, natural gas prices fell about 45 percent in the US and the lower prices have reduced the in a state-of-the-art project, including a biosolids-
urgency for investing in woody biomass projects in the country. However, despite the plunging natural gas mixing building where the oxygen is filtered for
prices, plans for more facilities utilizing woody biomass continued during 2011 and 2012 in both Canada odors and air pollutants, including $9 million
and the US, with some projects nearing completion and others in start-up mode. on fabric to trap ozone-making gases on huge
Wood fiber demand for all planned biomass projects in the US dropped in the first half of 2012 as composting piles.
compared to early 2011. Most of the decrease in wood usage the past year has been that wood used in The multi-phase project will process 100,000
the generation of electricity for the domestic market in the US, while the pellet industry has continuously tons of bio-solids yearly in the first phase and can
expanded capacity to serve the growing demand in Europe. expand to take 500,000 tons of bio-solids and
The US had about 450 announced and operating woody bioenergy projects in the spring of 2012, 400,000 tons of green waste a year, resulting in
including wood pellets, liquid fuel, electricity-generation and combined heat and power (CHP). The 300,000 tons of compost. It will be one of several
projected wood fiber use for all planned biomass projects is estimated to reach just over 30 million dry recycling options in the area.
tons of fiber annually by 2020, according to Forisk. Environmentalists and activists groups are
Commercial and residential energy consumers’ interest in switching to more expensive green energy watching the operation, despite the fact that the
is likely to continue to be lukewarm as long as demand for energy is low and natural gas prices are their composting process is a proven one and the finished
lowest levels in over ten years. product is safe to use.
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anchester, Vermont—In response to contamination of its products with trace amounts of the remier Tech recently announced the
persistent herbicides Clopyralid and Picloram, Green Mountain Compost (GMC) has recalled acquisition of the vonGAL Corporation,
bagged material and stopped selling any compost or compost-based products, reports vtdigger. located in Montgomery, Alabama. According
org. However, it continues to make compost as Chittenden County says it must keep yard waste out of to Premier Tech, vonGAL delivers high-performance
county landfills, a dictate that will soon apply to food waste as well. conventional palletizer equipment to diversified
The Chittenden Solid Waste District (CSWD), a “steward of public funds,” is a not a for-profit, industries, including baking, bottling, brewing,
independent entity. It has sent technicians, trained by the Plant Diagnostic Clinic at UVM, to 400 customers paint, pet food, and publishing.
of GMC. In the three weeks since the herbicide contamination was found, CSWD has also sent in three With this acquisition, Premier Tech’s
groups of samples to be analyzed. Industrial Equipment Group (IEG) integrates
Results confirmed that the heaviest contamination was in horse manure and bedding, one of the four some 80 additional skilled team members to its
main feedstocks. The others are yard waste, food scraps and wood chips. Clopyralid turned up in all five existing team of 500 people. This transaction
horse manure/bedding samples and Picloram, which has not been legally used in the state in three years, in also strengthens IEG’s position in the field of
four of five of the samples. The feedstocks have higher levels than the finished compost products. CSWD rigid packaging. Already involved at many
will no longer take horse manure/bedding. levels with end-of-line applications for robotic
Two garden vegetable samples showed no contamination, so it is expected that some problems picking, packing and palletizing and load securing
thought to be caused by the herbicides are due to other causes. Damage is seen in specific broad leaf (stretch wrapping and hooding), this move adds
garden plants. another leg to IEG’s commercial offering to the
It is still unknown whether the herbicide damage is or is not widespread and exactly how serious marketplace. This second manufacturing facility in
the damage is. The commissioners focused on what kind of help to provide to customers who have been the U.S. adds to the existing four plants IEG has in
affected. North America.
Some commissioners believe that trace contamination is likely everywhere on farms, and no one “This acquisition is in line with Premier
knows why the plants are showing damage now when the contamination seems to have been present for Tech’s five-year strategic planning which aims
a while. at increasing its market penetration in its various
segments and territories, while increasing its
capabilities in terms of project scope and support
to its customer base,” said Jean Bélanger, President
P
www.earthsaverequipment.com aris, France—Veolia Environnement is
Sales Office in Kalispell, MT—Machines Nationwide selling its U.S. waste management arm to
infrastructure fund Highstar Capital for $1.9
Lisa@HyTechMushroom.com
www. Hy-TechMushroomCompost.com
billion, as the French company works to cut its debt
and concentrate on the sale of its transport business,
reports reuters.com. New-York based Highstar had
compost turner set up its financing for Veolia’s U.S. waste business,
Veolia ES Solid Waste Inc. It manages more than
2001 CBI 4000 Mag. Force, 900HP (1500R hr) .....$179,000 - for windrow - $5.6 billion through its infrastructure funds and
owns waste management businesses in the eastern
Tub Grinders Pull-Type, PTO Driven, Heavy Duty
half of the U.S. It is in acquisition mode and has
1999 Morbark 1300NCL, 800 HP (7800 hr).......$50,000
1997 Toro 5000, 650 HP (4000 hr) .....................$85,000 finished 30 competitor acquisitions since 2005.
2003 Vermeer TG525L, 525 HP (4000 hr) .........$95,000 Veolia ES Solid Waste is based in Milwaukee, WI,
1998 Morbark 1300, 800 HP (1600R hr) ..........$123,000 and is one of the largest solid waste companies on
HorizonTal Grinders the continent, having 72 collection facilities and
2004 Rotochopper MC266, 460 HP (3300 hr) .$169,900 29 landfill facilities there.
2004 Bandit 3680, 645 HP (2650 hr) ................$170,000 Veolia has also sold the majority stake in its
2004 Peterson 4710, 630 HP (5100 hr).............$185,000 Manufactured and sold by UK water business for around the same amount,
2007 Morbark 3800, 600 HP (1500 hr) ............$260,000 with both sales going higher than expected. This
2004 Morbark 6600T, 1000 HP (4600 hr) ........$295,000 particular deal means that 60% of the firm’s
2008 Morbark 3800, 630 HP (920 hr) ..............$313,000 Dos Palos, CA 93620 • 209-392-6103
2005 Doppstadt DW3060K, 430 HP (1050 hr) $415,000 www.hclmachineworks.com disposal program is now accomplished, and the
email: casey@unwiredbb.com company says the sale of the waste and water assets
TroMMel sCreens
is going more smoothly than the transport part of
1998 Retech Eliminator III, 6’x27’ (2600 hr) ..$87,500 Info Request #106
1994 Earthsaver 622ABH, 6’x22’ .....................$45,000 the business. Indeed, a possible next move is the
sale of Veolia’s 25% share of Berlinwasser, which
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Grinders, Wood/Soil Screening Machines, Sell Your Used Equipment provides water for the German capital and is 50.1
Mulch Coloring Machines, Bark Blower Trucks, percent state-owned.
Chippers, Compost Turners & More! with a Classified Ad in S&MP News. Veolia expected to complete the sale to
Info Request #163 For More Information, Call 440-257-6453. Highstar by the end of 2012, subject to approval
from U.S. competition regulators.
O
regon City, OR—Oregonlive.com reports Bandit Tree Care Products of Southern California is based in Foothill Ranch, California. This new
that Clackamas County is considering dealership is located between Los Angeles and San Diego, serving customers in both metro areas as well
an appeal by the Redland Community as the entire Southern California region.
Action Group against a 139-acre composting- Bandit has also signed-on Miner’s Equipment and Truck Repair, which is located in Oklahoma City,
only operation planned by owner Casey Stroupe to serve customers throughout Oklahoma. According to Bandit, Miner’s Equipment and Truck Repair staff
for farmland in Redland, Oregon that was is experienced in equipment maintenance and repair, servicing a wide range of machinery. The new dealer
approved by the county in May. The group says will also sell new Bandit chippers and stump grinders, as well as Zenith knives.
the composting operation would introduce
industrial-scale composting on high-value soils by
claiming status as a farm and worry that bringing
in materials collected throughout the metro area
might introduce diseases and pollution.
The same group in late 2010 fought a biomass
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30 years and millions of bags
country to compost and mine at its main site in of experience, we are setting
Stafford, Oregon. The Stroupes grow hay and a new benchmark with
Christmas trees on the site. The action group sees innovative, modern design
this new Stroupe venture as the start of a major technology coupled with
composting operation, though the plan now is for improved reliability and
a much smaller agricultural operation. increased production
capacity.
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inn Corporation recently announced the or if you already operate a
additions of the Canadian company Eastern number of high production
Turf Equipment and the Australian-based plants and are thinking of
Clark Equipment Group as full service dealers for
upgrading or automating
its HydroSeeders®, Bark Blowers, Straw Blowers,
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with Form Fill and Seal
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new tracked r e m i e r Te c h
feeder from Chronos has
McCloskey developed a
International new feature for its FFS
is enhancing Series Form-Fill-Seal
the process of Bagger - the Automatic Bag Size Changeover. Features include:
stockpiling of
• PLC-controlled positioning of the main modules with
materials that traditionally can cause blockages in
electrical actuators and motors with embedded encoders
conventional stackers. The TF80 will facilitate the handling
• Accurate and repeatable adjustments, independent of
and stockpiling of large wood waste, bark, compost and top
the operator
soil, all of which can be directly fed into the hopper with large
• Up to 80 different bag recipes can be programmed
loaders and excavators.
• Adjustable-size filling chute
Powered by a 100Hp (75KW) Kubota engine, the TF80
• Much quicker changeover for minimum downtime and
offers Track or Wheel Mobility and features hydraulic folding
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mobile stockpiling conveyer for use across a number of bags per minute. Premier Tech Chronos offers a wide range
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