IPS installs two-ram balers - Installations - IPS Balers Inc - Brief Article

Recycling Today, Nov, 2001

IPS Balers Inc., Baxley, Ga., has sold and installed several high-production two-ram balers in recent months.

In the Northeast market, an IPS TR-1388-200 with a pre-compression ram has been installed at All-American Recycling in Jersey City, N.J., and an identical model was installed at Joseph Damato Paperstock Corp. in Paterson, N.J.

IPS president Sidney Wildes says the model purchased by the two companies is ideal for making dense bales suitable for making export weights, and is also a fast, high output machine. "They're very fast machines and they run without an operator, so their cost per ton is significantly low," says Wildes.

And in St. Charles, Ill., a TR-1388-200 is now operating at the Smurfit-Stone facility there. According to Wildes, the baler, powered by two 100-horsepower motors, is configured with a management reporting system that tracks production and can provide reports on the number of bales, bale weights and the amount of electricity consumed in a given time period. "We call it the Smart Report system," says Wildes, who notes that IPS worked with Alien-Bradley to design the system.