Press Release - Aug 28, 2006
Marathon BlokPak™ duo triples payloads for the City of Salem, Virginia
The City of Salem, Va. recently began operation of a new transfer station featuring two BlokPak™ Transfer System Compactors manufactured by Marathon Equipment Company of Vernon, Ala. The new facility handles municipal solid waste, as well as some construction and demolition debris. The project was initiated and coordinated by Jim Fender, Director of Solid Waste for the City of Salem.
"The BlokPaks have tripled our ability to process waste here in Salem," explained Fender. "With the BlokPak we were able to pack–out a transfer trailer to full–capacity in 13 minutes. We can actually pack three trailers in the same amount of time it used to take us to pack–out one. This has dramatically increased our efficiency, which saves operating cost. With the arrival of the new BlokPaks our payloads have increased from 21.5 tons to 25 tons."
When asked why he chose two BlokPaks Jim replied, "I really wanted redundancy in the system and buying two Marathon BlokPaks for less than the cost of one of the competition’s allowed that to happen."