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"Reduce, Reuse and Recycle" are very familiar words for Lakin Tire West. Collecting and processing in excess of 10 million tires a year seems like a large enough undertaking by itself, however, finding a home for all of those tires is even more incredible. But that's exactly where the people at Lakin Tire West excel. The majority of their yearly tires are sorted and inspected with good used tires destined for either retread or the global used tire market. The tires that are scrap are either disposed of whole as Tire Derived Fuel (TDF) or shredded and marketed as TDF or into Civil Engineering applications.

Known in the industry for producing high volume tire shredding equipment, capable of producing specifically sized chips, CM designed a custom system with a special footprint that would integrate with existing conveyor and screening equipment already in place at the Lakin facility.

According to Rick Colyar, National Sales Manager for CM Sarasota Operations, "The Columbus McKinnon Tire Shredder was chosen because its reliability and for its ability to process tires that are cleanly cut with very little exposed wire, which were specific requirements for Lakin's TDF and Civil Engineering Markets."

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 and has systems operating in 12 foreign countries.

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
http://www.cmshredders.com