New Mixed C&D Facility Opens in Cleveland

Cleveland area demolition firm Baumann Enterprises has opened a mixed C&D materials recycling plant on 25 acres of land in Garfield Heights, Ohio, a municipality adjacent to Cleveland.

Throughout the summer of 2011 the Baumann Enterprises location has been accepting loads of C&D debris and scrap generated internally from the company’s demolition jobs, including demo work being performed to make way for a new downtown Cleveland casino.

Company president Bill Baumann says the company has opened the plant to minimize its hauling costs and to respond to its customers’ greater demands for materials recycling.

“The nice thing about us is that as much as it would be nice to have other outside business coming in, we are pretty much self sufficient with our materials from our jobs. The nice thing about also being the demolition contractor is that I can feed my facility with our material.”

As the facility ramps up, the company is likely to solicit materials from a wider range of sources, says Baumann.

The plant features a truck scale and several acres of outdoor storage and sorting space, where metals and aggregates can be separated from wood and lighter materials to be directed toward an  automated sorting line that is under roof.

The sorting line, supplied by Powerscreen and Terex dealer Aggcorp, Westerville, Ohio, includes fingerscreen and trommel screen technology followed by several sorting stations where employees pick out recyclable metals and remove unwelcome contaminants from the clean wood fraction.

“We are running about 1,200 to 1,300 yards of mixed material a day through the plant with various products being involved with wood, brick, steel, nonferrous etcetera,” says Sean Nowack, plant supervisor, Baumann’s Recycling Center.

The variety of end products that will be created by Baumann’s Recycling Center includes wood for mulch and fuel, crushed concrete and red brick, screened soils and fill materials, recyclable cardboard and mixed plastics.

Bill Baumann says the company also is making plans to open a small scrap yard at the front corner of the 25-acre property that can purchase aluminum, brass and other types  of scrap from contractors in the area.