Cimpor Cement will be working very closely with the tire manufactures in Brazil who will be supplying the tires for the system. The tires will be shredded into 2-inch chips and used as a supplemental fuel, along with coal, in their rotary kilns.

The project is one of the first of its kind that will be addressing the new legislation that will take effect in Brazil on January 1, 2002. This legislation makes the tire manufactures responsible for the proper disposal and recycling of the tires.

Michael Playdon, International Sales Manager for CM, was quoted as saying that the "Columbus McKinnon's Tire Shredding System was the system of choice due to its ability to process steel belted passenger car and truck tires to a consistently sized chip, as well as, provide chips that were cut cleanly with little to no protruding or exposed steel".

Chips, that are cut cleanly with very little exposed steel, do not cling together and, therefore, do not adversely affect material handling systems that feed the tire chips to the kilns. It also allows the kilns to be feed more evenly allowing the temperatures to be held within the operations specifications.

The first system will be shipped in November with the second system shipping in December and will be commissioned soon thereafter. Columbus McKinnon reports that these are the first systems of their kind to be shipped to South America. Currently, CM has tire-shredding systems operating in 12 foreign countries.

Columbus McKinnon Corporation is the world's leading manufacturer of systems that are specifically designed and manufactured for the reduction of scrap tires of all sizes.

For more information on these systems you may contact CM toll free in the United States and Canada at 800-848-1071 or outside the United States at 001-941-755-2621.