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“The Nation’s Best Read Construction Newspaper… Founded in 1957.” Your Ohio Connection: Ed Bryden, Strongsville, OH • 1-800-810-7640
LoMc Credits Ohio CAT, IROCK, Hard Work to Success It’s a testimony to both men that Joshua McNary’s former employer, Jerry Baden of TVEK Enterprises, helped he and partner, William Lockhart get their start in business, named LoMc LLC, in the fall of 2012 with a screening plant they built themselves. When they landed a job recovering iron from an old Republic Steel dump site in Canton, Ohio, they were tasked with processing a five acre mound averaging 60 to 70 ft. (18 to 21 m) deep. Faced with moving a mountain to separate slag from the reusable iron, McNary and Lockhart soon set about searching for equipment that would deliver greater efficiency. The first screening plant they tried out was an improvement but still didn’t provide the processing speed they’d need if they were to stay in business. A call to Chris Harris of Ohio CAT put them on the road to profitability. According to McNary, Harris introduced them to IROCK’s screening plants which turned out to be exactly what they had in mind for the job. They’re currently running an IROCK TS522 triple deck tracked screener and an IROCK TS-522 double deck tracked screen-
LoMc LLC’s William Lockhart (L) and Joshua McNary credit hard work, Ohio CAT and IROCK with their ongoing success.
er on the job. In the first stage of the process, they load materials into the triple deck screener to separate materials into piles of 2x slag. Slag fines and the remaining materials are conveyed past a Dings #33 magnet to separate out iron from 304 slag. The second stage is to run the iron materials through the IROCK TS-522 double deck tracked screener to separate 2-3/4 in. iron from 3/8 to 1/8 in. iron and a final recovery of fines. According to McNary, with the separation of fines, their pace is 3,000 tons (2,722 t)per day. He added that if they were running 1/2 in. material they could double the amount processed daily. In all, they’ve processed more than 2 million tons (1.8 million t) of materials at the site. The iron they process is sent to steel mills in Ohio, Michigan and other nearby states to be melted down and reused while the slag will be used for fill. McNary explained that the material they’re recovering is rated at 68 percent FE. The recovered iron also contains lime, phosphorous, nickel and cadmium, all materials that would need to be added to a mill’s furnace to produce iron products if virgin iron was used. Currently the mills they supply see PARTNERS page 4
LoMc LLC employs two IROCK TS-522 conveyor systems and Dings magnets to stockpile recycled iron destined for steel mills in Ohio, Michigan and surrounding states.
Joshua McNary with a hand held magnet shows the iron content in this screened material.
Finished product piles up after being processed by the IROCK TS-522 double deck tracked screener.
In the initial processing stage, slag fines come off the IROCK TS-522 triple deck tracked screener.