CP Mfg. buys MSS sorting line - Equipment Report - Brief Article

Recycling Today, Oct, 2003

Recycling equipment maker CP Manufacturing Inc., National City, Calif., has acquired high-tech sorting equipment maker MSS Inc. of Nashville, Tenn.

"We can now offer our customers fully automated material recovery systems with a single source design and system operational responsibility," Robert M. Davis, president of CP Manufacturing, says.

"We see fully automated sorting of plastic, glass and paper as the future in material recovery facilities (MRFs)," says John O. Willis, CP's vice president of sales and marketing. "And we believe the future is now."

CP Manufacturing has been among the leaders in creating single-stream MRF systems for recyclers of curbside materials. The company acquired equipment maker Count Recycling Systems of Clive, Iowa, in 2000.

MSS has designed optical sorting equipment to identify and separate material based on color, including the PaperSort system for paper, the ColorSort system for glass and the Aladdin system for plastics.

According to a CP news release, "MSS will operate as a subsidiary of CP Manufacturing Inc. and continue to sell a range of products that they have developed over the past 24 years."