History

CP Manufacturing's story begins in the scrap metals industry - the forerunner of the modern recycling industry and systems you see today. CP's parent company, IMS Recycling Systems was founded in 1954 by Charles M. Davis as a buyer and seller of scrap metals. In the early 1970's, IMS and Alcoa Aluminum developed an aluminum can reclamation program to analyze the profit potential, as well as the environmental impact, of recycling aluminum cans. As the program grew, the need for separation and volume reduction equipment became very evident so Mr. Davis, being a mechanical engineer, invented the first aluminum can flattener - the CP100 - for use in his own yard. In answer to the demand from other companies to purchase this machinery, CP Manufacturing was incorporated in 1977.

Taking advantage of IMS's industry experience, as well as their R & D capabilities, CP continued to re-design and upgrade it's aluminum can processing equipment to include several generations of can flatteners, can densors, glass crushers and other UBC processing and handling equipment to continue to offer the most state-of-the-art equipment in the industry.

In the latter part of the 1980's, CP recognized that the trend was turning toward curbside collected recycling as mandated by municipalities and turned their design and engineering efforts in that direction. In 1990 CP's first Co-Mingled Sorting System was installed in Illinois. As the industry evolved, so did CP, adding OCC and Fiber Sort Lines to their Material Recovery Facility design layouts.

As the United States and other countries worked to increase the effectiveness of recycling by making it easier for consumers to participate and more cost effective to implement, CP dedicated their research and development efforts to assist in this effort. In 1997 CP's first Single Stream Sort System was installed in Australia. In 2000, IMS won the contract to process the City of San Diego's Single Stream collected material using a system designed by CP. Utilizing such automated sorting equipment as bounce adherence conveyors, integral trash conveyors, Trom-Mag and air classifier, eddy current separator, and disc screens - all field tested at IMS's processing center - you can be assured that a system designed by CP Mfg. will be effective, efficient and durable.

Today, CP Manufacturing has provided equipment for over 300 Material Recovery Facilities, has manufactured over 10,000 pieces of UBC processing equipment and continues to lead the industry with their innovative design, quality construction and unsurpassed Customer Service.