EQUIPMENT FOCUS: MATERIAL HANDLERS
DOUBLING DOWN ON SCRAP THE MRYGLOD FAMILY SCRAP BUSINESS IN SASKATCHEWAN ADDS THIRD SCRAP HANDLER IN FOUR YEARS TO KEEP UP WITH GROWTH BY JOSH HAFNER
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hen Mryglod Steel & Metals, based in Weyburn, Saskatchewan, bought its first Doosan material handler in 2016, the family-owned business had a 10-acre yard backed up with steel, aluminum and copper. They needed to sort slews of scrap metal as efficiently as possible, and its new DX300MH-5 proved up to the task. Four years later, the business has grown significantly, and its Doosan fleet has grown with it. Their initial purchase, a DX300MH-5 material handler from Bobcat of Regina, performed so well that the family picked up a second Doosan material
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handler, a DX225MH-5, in 2017. That’s also when the Mryglods expanded to a second location, a 3-acre yard in Regina. Earlier this year, the business swapped out their four-year-old DX300MH-5, their first Doosan material handler, after 9,000 hours of smooth service, for a new DX300MH-5 model. “If it didn’t perform like we expected it to, I wouldn’t have traded it in on a brand-new one,” said Mryglod Vice President and CEO Travis Mryglod, who now owns the business with his three brothers and their mother, Sandra.
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The Mryglod family has collected scrap metal since the 1940s when Travis’ great grandfather, Alex Mryglod,
recycled scrap for military equipment in World War II. Today, Mryglod Steel and Metals Inc. buys metal from a range of sources, including auto yards, railroads and industrial firms. That metal gets sorted by their Doosan material handlers before being cut and shredded. It’s then torched and baled for melting into new steel and products. Finally, using their material handlers again, recovered scrap is reloaded onto trucks for transportation to the steel mill. The DX300MH-5 and DX225MH-5 play vital roles at both ends of the process, Travis says. The machines unload the aluminum, steel, lead and copper, old vehicles, appliances and other outdated machinery. Then excavators outfitted with shears aid with the
