The equipment that separates tire wire from tire rubber is essentially a medium-speed grinder of the sort that first came to America from Denmark's Eldan Recycling A/S in the early 1990s, says Tom Wendt, sales manager for Wendt Corp. (Tonawanda, N.Y.), exclusive representative of Eldan machinery in North America. These machines were a variation on Eldan's "rasper" grinding technology, which had been used since the 1970s primarily for nonferrous wire chopping. Eldan knew that its raspers could also pull steel wire out of chunks of scrap rubber, but "at that time there really wasn't a need for the machine," Wendt says, because there wasn't much of a market for the wire-free product.
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机译：Wendt Corp.（纽约州Tonawanda）的销售经理Tom Wendt说，将轮胎钢丝与轮胎橡胶分开的设备实质上是一种中速磨床，这种磨床是1990年代初从丹麦的Eldan Recycling A / S首次运到美国的。 ），Eldan机械公司在北美的独家代表。这些机器是Eldan的“磨料机”磨削技术的变体，该技术自1970年代以来主要用于有色金属线切割。温丹说，艾丹（Eldan）知道它的锉刀也可以从废旧橡胶块中拉出钢丝，但是“那时确实不需要这种机器，”因为钢丝的市场并不多，免费产品。
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