Canadian Biomass • July/August 2017 • Product News

Fecon recently introduced the Fecon Rotating Shear, the FRS10. This excavator tree shear provides 360-degree rotation providing amazing range of motion. The rotation allows operators to save time and be more efficient with less repositioning of the excavator. The FRS provides much needed safety due to the shear being able to load chippers. The FRS10 is for 12- to 18-ton excavators and cuts up to 14” material. The FRS can be equipped with an accumulation arm to allow an operator to bunch smaller material. This Fecon Tough shear is constructed with Hardox in My Body. Be sure to learn about all the FRS models ranging from 5 to 35 tons.

Dust Control Technology has changed its name to BossTek to better reflect all of the company’s successful product lines. These include the OdorBoss odour suppression technology, with its line of environmentally safe topical and airborne odour treatment agents, and the KoolBoss crowd cooling technology for large outdoor events. BossTek president Laura Stiverson explained that the company’s expansion into other aspects of industrial air quality has come as a result of repeated inquiries from businesses with unmet needs for solutions to common issues.

“Over time, we began to realize that we were not simply a supplier of dust suppression equipment, but rather a solutions provider with the expertise to address a much wider range of applications,” she said. “These new segments of our business are growing far beyond our initial expectations, and our updated company name more accurately reflects the firm’s commitment to the expanding needs of our customers.”

Uzelac Industries Inc. has appointed Mike Hobbs as vice-president and general manager. Uzelac is a leading manufacturer of design-build rotary drying systems headquartered in Greendale, Wisc.

Before joining Uzelac, Mike served as operations manager at Rockwell Automation. He began his career at Siemens, where he held engineering, project management, sales and management roles. He later served as general manager at Avanti Wind Systems.

Hobbs graduated with honours from the Milwaukee School of Engineering, earning a bachelor degree in mechanical engineering technology.

He is a LEED-accredited professional and a registered Professional Engineer in the state of Wisconsin.

Bandit Industries, Inc. has expanded its line of skid-steer loader attachments to include the Model SA-25, a hydraulically powered stump grinder attachment that operates off a loader’s existing high flow hydraulic systems. The SA- 25 features a 24.5” diameter Revolution cutterwheel, the same size cutterwheel found on some of Bandit’s largest self-propelled stump grinders.

The Model SA-25 joins Bandit’s lineup of skid-steer loader attachments that includes the Bandit Stump Gun vertical stump grinder and the Model 60FM and Model 72FM forestry mulchers.

John Deere offers an option for material-handling jobs of every scale with the new severe-duty pallet forks, the latest additions to the ever-expanding lineup of Worksite Pro attachments. Two new pallet forks (PF45 and PF60) are optimized to work with John Deere G-Series skid steers as well as G- and E-Series compact track loaders (CTLs), along with another pallet fork that was specifically designed for use on K-Series compact wheel loaders with the skid steerstyle Quik-Tatch coupler.

The severe-duty pallet forks for skid steers and CTLs are available in lengths of 48” and 60”, and they can be positioned in widths from 45” in 5” increments to 60” in 5.35” increments.

They feature a walk-through backrest with a bolt-on option and unrestricted visibility to the fork tips.

Skid-resistant steps on both sides of the pallet fork frame also ease vehicle entrance and exit.

With the universal, self-cleaning Quik-Tatch easy attachment system, the machine can easily add and remove the severe-duty pallet forks in seconds.

The new fork frame, which was designed for use on compact wheel loaders, offers improved visibility, increased capacity and better durability over the previous fork-frame design.

It was specifically designed for use on a compact wheel loader with a parallel lift, and it will enable operators to load the far side of a trailer with ease. The tines are ITA class 3B rated and available in either 48” or 60”.