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WM AND MACHINEX CELEBRATE PLANT OPENING IN LAVAL On February 24, Machinex representatives attended the official grand opening ceremony of the Waste Management recovery facility located in Laval, Quebec, near Montreal. The ceremony was held with the Quebec Minister of the Environment Benoit Charrette and Waste Management’s VP Eastern Canada Aaron Johnson. The new WM MRF in Laval, with system designed and installed by Machinex, will process about 50,000 tonnes yearly of plastic, paper and metals. Operating for the past few months, the system has been processing recyclable material from the industrial, commercial and institutional sectors of the greater Montreal area. Machinex, which celebrates its 50th year in business in 2020, supplied the plant’s turnkey sorting system, including an OCC screen, disc separators for fine particles, a magnetic separator and a Machinex II-Ram baler. “The expertise developed by Machinex through its many projects around the world has enabled us to create a highperformance sorting system in Laval which directly aligns with our objectives of equipment efficiency and production quality,” said Jean Beaudoin, Waste Management director of Quebec sorting facilities and
From left: David Hébert, Machinex; Aaron Johnson, VP Eastern Canada, Waste Management; Pierre Paré, CEO of Machinex Group; and Guillaume Chevrette, Waste Management. transfer stations. “The team deployed by Machinex for the completion of this project was attentive to our needs and knew how to adapt to the high-quality standards which is expected by Waste Management.” David Hébert, project director at Machinex, commented, “We are very satisfied with the progress of this project and especially with the performance achieved by the turnkey system we provided. We have been able to count on an excellent collaboration with the client during all stages
of the process and we wish to be able to work again with Waste Management to develop other high-performance systems.” Celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2020, Plessisville, Quebec-based Machinex became the first company in Canada to design machinery for material recycling facilities, in the 1980s. Over the past 50 years, Machinex experts have designed and installed over 375 turnkey facilities in partnership with leading MRFs in Canada, the United States, Europe and Oceania.
NEWS BRIEFS Bunting appoints new Master Rep for Western Canada Bunting has contracted Chris Heming, co-owner of CPG Automation, to serve as their new Master Rep for Western Canada. “I am very pleased to be an official partner with Bunting for Western Canada,” said Heming who will be representing all standard Bunting products in western Canadian provinces, including material handling, magnetic separation and metal detection equipment.
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AMCS acquires TRUX Route Management Systems At the end of January, AMCS, the U.K.-based global supplier of integrated software and vehicle technology for the waste, recycling and resource industries, announced the acquisition of Cambridge, Ontario-based software solutions provider TRUX Route Management Systems Inc. Commenting on the acquisition, AMCS CEO Jimmy Martin said, “The North American waste market is shaping up to be an exciting place for growth in the coming years.”
