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Section A Page 30 <strong>American</strong> <strong>Recycler</strong>, September 2008<br />
Events<br />
Calendar<br />
October 20th-21st<br />
75th Annual Meeting of the Aluminum<br />
Association. The Greenbrier, White Sulphur<br />
Springs, West Virginia.<br />
703-358-2975 • www.aluminum.org<br />
October 21st-25th<br />
ARA 65th Annual Convention &<br />
Exposition. Hyatt Regency Crown Center,<br />
Kansas City, Missouri.<br />
888-385-1005 • www.a-r-a.org<br />
October 21st-23rd<br />
Wastecon 2008. Tampa Bay Convention<br />
Center, Tampa, Florida.<br />
800-467-9262 • www.wastecon.swana.org<br />
October 26th-29th<br />
The 2008 National Renewable Energy<br />
Marketing Conference. Marriott City Center,<br />
Denver, Colorado. 415-561-2135<br />
www.renewableenergymarketing.net<br />
October 28th-29th<br />
NERC’s Fall 2008 Conference. Hotel<br />
Northampton, Northampton, Massachusetts.<br />
802-254-3636 • www.nerc.org<br />
November 1st-3rd<br />
APRA’s 2008 International BIG R Show.<br />
Riviera Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada.<br />
703-968-2772 • www.bigrshow.com<br />
November 6th-8th<br />
International Autobody Congress &<br />
Exposition. Mandalay Bay Convention<br />
Center, Las Vegas, Nevada.<br />
888-529-1641 • www.naceexpo.com<br />
February 24th-25th, 2009<br />
Plastics Recycling 2009. Disney Coronado<br />
Springs Resort, Orlando, Florida.<br />
503-233-1305 • www.plasticsrecycling.com<br />
Member FINRA, SIPC<br />
<strong>American</strong> LaFrance exits<br />
bankruptcy<br />
<strong>American</strong> LaFrance, LLC emerged<br />
successfully from its Chapter 11 bankruptcy<br />
effective July 24, 2008. Concurrent<br />
with its emergence from bankruptcy,<br />
<strong>American</strong> LaFrance has announced a<br />
significant restructure of its business and<br />
a transformation of organization,<br />
processes and a segregation of facilities<br />
to better serve its product lines in<br />
domestic and global markets.<br />
In a major effort to improve profitability,<br />
timely delivery and to create<br />
room for soon to be announced new ventures,<br />
the fire business will be moved<br />
from Summerville, South Carolina to the<br />
<strong>American</strong> LaFrance facilities in Ephrata,<br />
Pennsylvania and Hamburg, New York<br />
according to <strong>American</strong> LaFrance. Summerville<br />
will remain the center of excellence<br />
for commercial cab and chassis<br />
models, including chassis manufactured<br />
for the fire, refuse and construction markets<br />
(street sweepers, refuse haulers, concrete<br />
pumpers, etc.).<br />
Schnitzer acquires three<br />
auto parts businesses<br />
Schnitzer Steel Industries, Inc.<br />
announced that its Auto Parts Business has<br />
acquired three self-service used auto parts<br />
businesses located in Little Rock,<br />
Arkansas and San Antonio, Texas.<br />
Schnitzer purchased the assets and<br />
business of U-Pull-It Auto Parts, Inc., U-<br />
Pull-It Jacksonville, Inc., and Roosevelt U-<br />
Pull-It, Inc., which were previously owned<br />
and operated by Gary Johnson.<br />
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BUSINESS BRIEFS<br />
Universal Package names<br />
new general manager<br />
Universal Package Systems<br />
announced the promotion of Jonathan<br />
Brandes to the position of general manager.<br />
Brandes has been with the company<br />
for the past three years, previously<br />
holding a sales position with the fastgrowing<br />
company.<br />
His new responsibilities include<br />
maintaining and improving customer<br />
relations, new business development,<br />
and plant and warehouse supervision.<br />
Previously, Brandes worked with<br />
Tecumseh Corrugated Box Company,<br />
working as head designer, before moving<br />
into sales with the company. He also<br />
spent time with The Servants Incorporated,<br />
a paper sheet plant, where he gained<br />
experience as a sample maker.<br />
ArcelorMittal acquires<br />
Rolanfer Recyclage<br />
ArcelorMittal announces it has<br />
acquired the outstanding 60 percent of<br />
the shares in Rolanfer Recyclage S.A.<br />
(Rolanfer), which now gives it 100 percent<br />
control over the company.<br />
Rolanfer is based in Yutz (France)<br />
near Thionville on the border with Luxembourg<br />
and operates a shredder at the<br />
port of Illange. Rolanfer specializes in<br />
the processing and recycling of scrap<br />
metal products including incinerated<br />
scrap, shredded scrap, and demolition<br />
scrap.<br />
The bulk of its production is delivered<br />
to ArcelorMittal sites in Luxembourg.<br />
This acquisition will assist in<br />
securing the supply of scrap metal to<br />
ArcelorMittal operations in the region.<br />
In 2007, Rolanfer’s gross turnover<br />
was US$20.6 million and it shipped<br />
approximately 86,000 tons of scrap metal<br />
for the year. Rolanfer currently employs<br />
24 staff and its new managing director is<br />
David Iroz.<br />
AF&PA chooses director<br />
of communications<br />
The <strong>American</strong> Forest & Paper Association<br />
(AF&PA) announced that Scott<br />
Milburn has been named executive<br />
director of AF&PA Strategic Communications.<br />
Milburn will coordinate<br />
AF&PA’s communication outreach to<br />
industry, policy and opinion leaders, and<br />
the media.<br />
Milburn has a background in state<br />
and federal government, as well as public<br />
affairs consulting. He most recently<br />
served as vice president in the issues<br />
management practice of APCO Worldwide.<br />
Milburn has an extensive background<br />
in public policy communication, having<br />
served as press secretary in the White<br />
House Office of Management and Budget<br />
under directors Joshua Bolten and Rob<br />
Portman, and as senior communication<br />
advisor to members of the U.S. Senate and<br />
House of Representatives, as well as a<br />
governor. In all of these positions he<br />
worked closely on energy and environmental<br />
policy, as well as other issues central<br />
to manufacturing and agriculture.<br />
Veolia selects Chicago for<br />
new headquarters<br />
Veolia Environnement has selected<br />
Chicago as its new North <strong>American</strong><br />
headquarters for the company’s four<br />
operational groups.<br />
The company has signed a lease for<br />
34,500 sq. ft. of space in Aon Center<br />
(200 East Randolph Street).<br />
Veolia Environnement’s North<br />
<strong>American</strong> headquarters will house<br />
approximately 60 executive managers<br />
and administrative personnel from four<br />
operational groups focused on water<br />
services and technologies, waste services,<br />
energy and facility management, and<br />
passenger transportation.<br />
Harsco receives 10-year<br />
contract from steel plant<br />
Harsco Corporation announced that<br />
its worldwide mill services division has<br />
been awarded a new ten-year contract<br />
valued at more than $60 million over its<br />
duration to provide on-site environmental<br />
services to ArcelorMittal’s Dunkirk<br />
steel works in northern France.<br />
Harsco’s award includes the construction<br />
of a new dehydrating plant that<br />
will process the mill’s blast furnace and<br />
melt shop sludge by-products into<br />
reusable filter cake material suitable for<br />
use within the steelmaking process, as<br />
well as other external applications. The<br />
award also includes the screening and<br />
blending of various by-product materials<br />
for on-site recycling to the mill’s sinter<br />
plant, which produces materials for<br />
charging the mill’s three blast furnaces.<br />
Work is scheduled to commence at the<br />
beginning of 2009.<br />
IronPlanet reports record<br />
second quarter in 2008<br />
IronPlanet posted record sales in the<br />
second quarter of 2008, with gross auction<br />
sales of $91.3 million - an increase<br />
of 37 percent over the second quarter of<br />
2007. This year’s second quarter represents<br />
a 17 percent growth over the first<br />
quarter of 2008. The company’s year-todate<br />
performance of $168.9 million is a<br />
70 percent increase over the same period<br />
in 2007.<br />
In the second quarter, IronPlanet<br />
drew an average of 14,000 visitors per<br />
auction, an increase of 35 percent over<br />
the second quarter of 2007.<br />
Lovejoy appoints new<br />
torsional product manager<br />
Lovejoy, Inc. announced the<br />
appointment of Greg Taylor as torsional<br />
product manager.<br />
Taylor’s role is to oversee the marketing,<br />
engineering, coordination, and sales<br />
efforts for Lovejoy’s wide range of torsional<br />
couplings. He works directly with<br />
distributors and original equipment manager<br />
accounts. At Lovejoy, Taylor’s goals<br />
are to develop innovative products and to<br />
grow the torsional products market.<br />
Prior to Lovejoy, Taylor worked as<br />
an application manager for Power Great<br />
Lakes, Inc. in Wood Dale, Illinois.