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Changes in the Market
It is difficult to pick up a trade journal these days and not read more than one article competing for one of our industry’s most valuable resources, wood fiber. From new pellet fuel plants to lumber mills shutting down to land clearing coming to a hault, all the news is not good. It makes you wonder what our industry will look like ten years from today.
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Geohumus®
Almost two years after the fact, more than 22 states around the US have declared a “drought”, and a total of 36 anticipate severe water shortages by 2013*. Whenever drought conditions surface, the combination of environmental effect, coupled with a lack of awareness and inaction by public regulators, almost always converge to fail the consumer. In this industry “consumers” are large commercial and private property owners and they are always the last ones to be notified they can’t flush, shower or water their lawns.
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You are the Strength of America
Since the birth of our nation the American economy has experienced 18 periods of economic contractions, including the one we are currently in. Two of those contractions have been classified as depressions, 15 as recessions, and our current downturn has been determined as a recession. The shortest recessions (July 1957-April 1958 and July 1990-April 1991) lasted ten months, while the Great Depression of 1929 lasted ten years. The current recession has been ongoing since December of 2007. The “average” depression lasts about eight and a half years.
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Posted at 11:31 AM | Link to this Article
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Tinsley Steparator
The Steparator™ is a unique screening machine that features a patented, stepped deck, which results in a very high open area per unit of surface area. The machine substantially increases through-put without the risk of blinding or plugging. Oversize material is oriented in direction of flow and rejected, thus improving uniformity of accepted product size.
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Continental Biomass Industries, Inc.
Losing Profits to Diesel? We Have an Electrifying Solution.
By: Dave Whitelaw
The United States burns more than 4.1 million barrels (over 172 million gallons) of diesel every day. So it’s not surprising that when diesel prices surge the price increase significantly impacts the economy. In fact, recent increases cost the US economy about $300 million in extra fuel costs per day. On a corporate level, the increase in the cost of diesel eats into profit margins — and this is particularly true in the transportation and manufacturing industries.
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Maximize Profit on Each Ton of Wood Available
By: Vince Hundt, Company Co-Founder
Rotochopper, Inc.
Landscape mulch is getting to be a more sophisticated and complex subject every year. Twenty years ago mulch was simply bark from trees. It was what customers got when they asked for mulch. It was cheap and plentiful, like the diesel fuel used to haul it. Then, in 1990 in Cleveland, AmeriMulch invented the idea of colored mulch. That changed everything.
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Renewable Energy from Organic Recycling
By: Tom Kurtz, Kurtz Bros.
Kurtz Bros. is a third generation family business located in Ohio that began as a commercial topsoil company. In the late 1970s the company began to focus on organic recycling and mulch production. In the early 1990s, Kurtz Bros. was one of the pioneering companies in the colored mulch business and eventually sold Amerimulch to ChromaScape.
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Pickle Economics
A few years back I read an article about a disastrous relationship between the Vlasic Pickle Company and Wal-Mart*. I’ll give you the short version.
Vlasic had a great business selling their premium brand pickles to most major grocery chains across America. They offered quartered sliced pickles, pickles sliced horizontally, small jars and larger jars. Whatever your preference was for premium kosher dill pickles, Vlasic had a package for you. And because they offered products that met their customer’s preferences at a fair price, they made money.
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New Opportunities for Profit
New Opportunities for Profit
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Package from Amerimulch
It is no secret that the colored mulch industry is facing a severe challenge due to the lack of availability of low-cost wood feed stocks. Because of the poor state of the housing industry, land clearing has slowed to a crawl. Lumber mills are hurting and the general economy is flat. There just isn’t a lot of scrap wood being generated.
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Rising Pigment Costs From China
In February, Steve Grudzinski, Senior Vice President of Finance and Administration, had the opportunity to attend a conference on “Iron Oxides for Colorant and Chemical Applications”. This annual event is sponsored by Intertech Pira Corporation, and brings together producers and consumers to explore the latest processing innovations, applications and the global market outlook of the synthetic iron oxide industry. Synthetic iron oxide pigment is a main raw material in the production of colorants for the color enriched mulch industry. Of most interest were presentations by the China National Iron Oxide Industrial Association and several major Chinese pigment manufacturers.
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Amerimulch Inks Australian Licensing Agreement with PRM Industries Pty Ltd
Amerimulch, a division of ChromaScape Inc., has entered into a licensing agreement with PRM Industries Pty Ltd of Victoria Australia. Under the terms of the agreement PRM will manufacture mulch colorants utilizing Amerimulch color technology and the Heartland™ Enriched Colorants brand. The agreement provides stringent quality requirements for raw materials, process control and other quality parameters that will protect the integrity of the Heartland™ Enriched Colorants brand of mulch colorants.
“Australia is a growing market for colored mulch,” said Robert Youl, Lead Director of PRM. “We are pleased that we have this opportunity to partner-up with such a fine company and industry leader as Amerimulch.”
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