The acquired company will continue to operate under the name Barclay Roto-Shred LLC.

The Biehn family, investors in multiple industrial companies, including Miamisburg, Ohio-based industrial machine knife company American Cutting Edge, has acquired Barclay Roto-Shred Inc., a Stockton, California-based tire shredder equipment manufacturer, from former owner and CEO Mark Diemunsch. The acquired company will operate under the name Barclay Roto-Shred LLC.

“We’ve worked with Mark Diemunsch for many years, and when he indicated he was interested in retiring, the shareholders thought it made perfect sense to purchase the company to keep the Barclay Shredder legacy alive,” Chuck Biehn, CEO of American Cutting Edge as well as other Biehn family companies, says. “We’re very excited about the opportunity to continue to bring the tire-shredding market this high-quality machinery.”

“I’ve known the Biehn family for many years, and while I am retiring, I will be working closely with them as an advisor during the transition,” Diemunsch says. “I’m confident that great things are ahead for Barclay Roto-Shred based on Chuck Biehn’s understanding of the tire-shredding business and his vision for the future. I’m looking forward to seeing the expansion that’s planned for the manufacturing facility and inventory.”

Barclay's sales and customer service remain in Stockton, though manufacturing will move to the Dayton area, according to a news release from the Biehn family.

Jim Southern, formerly account manager at American Cutting Edge, has taken the role of sales manager at Barclay Roto-Shred LLC, learning the line from Diemunsch prior to his retirement. Southern will assume responsibility for driving the business forward and brings a decade of industrial knife manufacturing experience to the table, including significant time spent working with tire recycling original equipment manufacturers.

Additionally, Ron Combs, who has been with Barclay Roto-Shred for more than 25 years, will lead Barclay's manufacturing plant in the newly tooled facility in Miamisburg.

“We’re thrilled to have Ron continue his tenure with Barclay Roto-Shred LLC,” Biehn says. “It’s clear that Ron knows Barclay machines better than anyone, and his pride of craftsmanship has helped build the Barclay brand to what it is today.

“We’re looking forward to a new era for Barclay tire shredders and are excited for what the future holds,” he adds.

Over the course of two days, the company welcomed over 100 visitors to see the brand-new RM 120X Mobile Impact Crusher.

Rubble Master, with global headquarters in Linz, Austria, announced it showcased its latest RM 120X Mobile Impact Crusher to Texas contractors and aggregate producers during its recent Demo Day, which took place June 10-11. Over the course of two days, the company welcomed over 100 visitors to see the brand-new RM 120X Mobile Impact Crusher firsthand.

“This was a great opportunity to show local contractors our full product offering and support capabilities in the Texas market. We are immensely proud of our new North American headquarters in Ennis, Texas, offering sales, service and rental to Texas clients. Within 12 months, we have grown from a relatively small team to a … strong support team [of 15].”

Besides the new flagship crusher, attendees could also see the RM HS5000M 5- by 12-foot scalping screen and the RM MTS2412S 80-foot tracked conveyor. 

Despite travel restrictions, Gerald Hanisch, owner and president of Rubble Master, made it to the event to talk to clients about the latest innovations.

“The Demo Days have proven that the Texas market needs a new offering. I am immensely proud that multiple clients have made their decision for Rubble Master during the event,” he said.

The new facility will have the capacity to divert nearly 115,000 tons of organic residuals a year from landfills and incineration.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan has granted more than $460,000 to support the construction of a nearly complete anaerobic digestor on the Maryland Food Center campus in Jessup, reports WBALTV.

The Bioenergy DEVCO facility is set to be the largest anaerobic digestor in the state and will help support efforts to curb solid waste and greenhouse gas emissions from landfills.

As reported by WJZ, the new facility is a public-private partnership that began with a land lease between the parties, key regulatory support from the Maryland Department of the Environment and the approval of the Board of Public Works in February 2018.

"This state-of-the-art facility will allow Howard County and our administration to address the challenges of organics and landfills and incineration, but also dramatically reduce the impact these wastes have on greenhouse gas emissions," Howard County Executive Calvin Ball said.

"This is really a cow's stomach on a very, very large scale. The same microbes in a cow's stomach process our organic material, and that turns it into renewable energy and a compost-like fertilizer," said Shawn Kreloff, CEO of Bioenergy DEVCO.

The facility will utilize microbes to process material and convert it on a large scale.

"The natural gas gets cleaned up and gets put back into Baltimore Gas and Electric's pipeline directly, so people can use it to heat homes and make energy," Kreloff said.

The resulting compost material will get put into bags for farms to use in agriculture. The digester will have the capacity to divert nearly 115,000 tons a year of organic residuals from landfills and incineration.

"Every consumer benefits when we save more and waste less. This means that the cost of managing trash and the environmental cost of landfills is going to continue to decrease with projects like this," Maryland Environment Secretary Ben Grumbles said.

The facility will also create approximately 30 to 50 full-time jobs, including construction and long-term maintenance and operation jobs.

The company says this data will help provide transparency and peace of mind to stakeholders and communities.

Covanta, Morristown, New Jersey, announced that emissions data for all of its New Jersey waste-to-energy facilities is now accessible to the public on the company's website. This is the same data used by operators on-site at each of the three Covanta facilities in the state to monitor operational performance.

The company says that publishing this data will help provide “a layer of transparency to give stakeholders and communities increased peace of mind, as well as a unique birds-eye view into the science behind sustainable waste management.”

"By making this data publicly accessible, it is our hope that people will see beyond the industrial exteriors of our facilities and have an opportunity to engage with the work we are doing on behalf of the environment, and at the same time, develop a greater appreciation for the essential role our dedicated employees play in safely and sustainably managing the waste society creates," Covanta COO Derek Veenhof says.

"Making this information available to our community members is not a regulatory requirement. We are doing so in order to provide greater transparency and understanding of the work we do every day on behalf of our neighbors and communities," Michael Van Brunt, senior director of sustainability at Covanta, says.

Continuous emissions monitoring is an important tool in determining a waste-to-energy facility's compliance with the emission limits set forth in its operating permit established in accordance with the federal Clean Air Act and other regulatory requirements. In 2020, Covanta's facilities in New Jersey operated in compliance with their permits over 99 percent of the time, the company says.

Collectively, Covanta's New Jersey facilities serve the solid waste disposal needs of more than 1.8 million people in the counties of Camden, Essex and Union. This waste is used to power approximately 90,000 homes and helps avoid 1.8 million tons of greenhouse gases annually by keeping waste out of landfills.

Covanta has more than 600 employees in New Jersey and approximately 4,000 in the U.S., Canada, Ireland and the UK.

Facility information and emissions data for Covanta's New Jersey plants can be found for the respective sites: Covanta Camden, Camden, New Jersey; Covanta Essex, Newark, New Jersey; and Covanta Union, Rahway, New Jersey.

The companies will be rebranded under the Circon Environmental name.

Kinderhook Industries LLC, New York City, has announced the merger of La Porte, Texas-based Circon Environmental; Avon, Ohio-based Chemtron Corp.; and Sumter, South Carolina-based KilnDirect Inc. Each company was an existing portfolio company of Kinderhook and will be rebranded under the Circon Environmental name.

According to a Kinderhook release, “the merger will create a leading pure-play provider of sustainable waste management solutions.”

Circon, Chemtron and KilnDirect each are dedicated to the engineering and processing of nonhazardous and hazardous waste streams to create fuel replacements to traditional natural gas and coal. Kinderhook says the vertically integrated platform will have the scale and capabilities to provide end-to-end environmental solutions on a national level for waste generators across all end markets.

“We are excited to combine three successful companies to create an ESG-focused environmental solutions platform. We believe the lack of a pure-play sustainability-focused provider of scale in the market creates a unique opportunity for the combined company, and we look forward to building this consolidated platform with our management team,” Rob Michalik, managing director at Kinderhook, says.

Frank Iezzi, who will serve as CEO of the combined platform adds, “We are excited to welcome in Chemtron and KilnDirect into our growing family of companies. Through the addition of the Chemtron and KilnDirect teams, Circon’s expertise will be even stronger as we expand the products and services we offer with a focus on delivering an ever-growing level of sustainable environmental solutions to our customers.”

Kirkland & Ellis, Chicago, served as legal counsel to Kinderhook. Financing for the transaction was provided by Chicago-based Twin Brook Capital.