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November 30, 2006

Machine gets the lead out of hazardous paint

  • A Kent-based company is testing equipment that the Army might use when it demolishes old barracks laden with lead paint.
    • By TERRY STEPHENS
    Special to the Journal

    Photo courtesy of ARI Technologies
    ARI Technologies in September tested a prototype machine that removes lead from paint-laden wood shavings. A commercial system would feed materials automatically.

    The big problem: How to economically take thousands of old military barracks apart so that the wood can be recycled.


     
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