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Jul 28, 2023

'The 800

For Beyeler and his team of dedicated engineers this was not a straightforward

For Beyeler and his team of dedicated engineers this was not a straightforward project. 5pm: end of the working day at the yard of Theo Steil Recycling in Cologne – but not for Peter Beyeler and his crew. ‘There are still some things that need to be finished today,’ says Beyeler. ‘Installing this baby is not a nine-to-five job’.

This "Baby" is the Taurus ACS 873. ED4L, an 800 tonne cutting force stationary shear-baler made for IUT Beyeler by the CEG manufacturing plant at Daverio in north Italy.

‘We sell shears ranging from 500 to 1 400 tonnes of cutting force but the 800 is without doubt my showpiece. In the past two years we’ve sold more than ten units; to Germany, Poland, Austria, Switzerland, Czech Republic, and Hungary.’

It takes an exceptional transport of five trucks and three days to get the machine from Daverio to Cologne. ‘Mind you, this is not just a machine, this is heavy duty equipment. We talk about almost 160 tonnes in total of which the heaviest, the one-piece undercarriage, weighs 55 tonnes. Obviously, this requires a heavy duty truck.’

A second truck carries the shear, a third the prefill-hopper, a fourth the hydraulic unit on a steel frame, while the fifth is for smaller parts and accessories. Transport is one thing, getting the equipment up and running is another. Once a shear has arrived at its destination, it takes Beyeler and his crew six days on average to install the machine and get it ready for operation.

Installing the Taurus 800 at Theo Steil is no different. What is different is that the machine's stay at the Cologne scrap yard will be temporary – six to seven months – replacing Theo Steil's existing shear, undergoing maintenance. Beyeler: ‘No other shear was available so ours offered a solution.’

Once the revision is done, the crew will be back to dismantle and ship the Taurus to Theo Steil's yard at Szczecin in the north-west of Poland where again it will carry out a full installation.

Asked how worldwide parts shortages affect his business, the shear-baler expert says: ‘We hardly see any impact. Sure, everybody is having issues with the supply of electronic components but we have always had plenty of parts in stock which, crisis or no crisis, helps ease the pain.’

What about pricing? ‘As we’ve all seen, resources have become more scarce and more expensive which has its impact on the cost of manufacture. For example, 10 mm steel plates used in our equipment have tripled in cost. We have no other choice than to pass on these extra costs. I dare say in two years’ recycling machines will have become up to 30% more expensive.

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