Lloydminster 鈥� There鈥檚 a lot of things you might expect to see at an oil show, but a bale of aluminum that used to be part of a tanker truck is not one of them.
Yet that was precisely what Paul Klaasen had at his PWM Steel Services booth at the Lloydminster Heavy Oil Show on Sept. 12-13.
Klaasen said they had put in a non-ferrous baler in May of this year. It鈥檚 meant for copper, aluminum and stainless steel.
鈥淲e can cut up the tankers the truckers use,鈥� he said. 鈥淲e can cut them up, bale and process them.
鈥淐odes have changed. Tankers that don鈥檛 meet code, we can process them.聽
鈥淲e recently put in the baler to be more efficient, to produce a better product. Then our buyer doesn鈥檛 have to do anything, he just takes it, verifies what it is, and ships it,鈥� Klaasen said.
The resultant bales end up going all over, into smelters in the U.S., and even offshore.
Another bale in the booth was made up of insulated copper. A third was a bale of aluminum irrigation pipe.
Klaasen said there was lots of interest at the oil show, with people seeing what they could do.
鈥淲e always do something different,鈥� he said of their booths every two years. 鈥淚t鈥檚 a cheap way of networking. To guys who don鈥檛 show up, I say, come say hello to you current customers. You might get a new customer.鈥�
Klaasen said he was a 鈥渉uge鈥� believer in the show. 鈥淵ou never know what you鈥檒l attract, right?鈥�
鈥淚鈥檓 a firm believer in this show, especially if you鈥檙e local,鈥� he concluded.
