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As users of mulch colorant you have probably pondered the best way to store your colorant inventory. Here are some frequently asked questions and recommendations regarding colorant storage and maintenance.

It is difficult to pick up a trade journal these days and not read more than one article competing for one of our industry’s most valuable resources, wood fiber. From new pellet fuel plants to lumber mills shutting down to land clearing coming to a hault, all the news is not good. It makes you wonder what our industry will look like ten years from today.

Almost two years after the fact, more than 22 states around the US have declared a “drought”, and a total of 36 anticipate severe water shortages by 2013*. Whenever drought conditions surface, the combination of environmental effect, coupled with a lack of awareness and inaction by public regulators, almost always converge to fail the consumer. In this industry “consumers” are large commercial and private property owners and they are always the last ones to be notified they can’t flush, shower or water their lawns.

The Steparator™ is a unique screening machine that features a patented, stepped deck, which results in a very high open area per unit of surface area. The machine substantially increases through-put without the risk of blinding or plugging. Oversize material is oriented in direction of flow and rejected, thus improving uniformity of accepted product size.

By: Vince Hundt, Company Co-Founder
Rotochopper, Inc.

Landscape mulch is getting to be a more sophisticated and complex subject every year. Twenty years ago mulch was simply bark from trees. It was what customers got when they asked for mulch. It was cheap and plentiful, like the diesel fuel used to haul it. Then, in 1990 in Cleveland, AmeriMulch invented the idea of colored mulch. That changed everything.

By: Tom Kurtz, Kurtz Bros.

Kurtz Bros. is a third generation family business located in Ohio that began as a commercial topsoil company. In the late 1970s the company began to focus on organic recycling and mulch production. In the early 1990s, Kurtz Bros. was one of the pioneering companies in the colored mulch business and eventually sold Amerimulch to ChromaScape.

Accidents Happen. Too often, we act as though they will not, and we are not prepared for what we need to do when they do occur. Good businesses that survive over the long haul do not pretend that accidents will never happen to them; they instead take the proper precautions to do what they can to prevent things from going wrong, and they are prepared with the things that they will need in times of trouble – close by and accessible quickly when needed.

A few years back I read an article about a disastrous relationship between the Vlasic Pickle Company and Wal-Mart*. I’ll give you the short version.

Amerimulch is happy to welcome three new members to its team.

Mary Higgins has joined the company as an Accounting Technician. Mary began as a temporary warehouse worker and proved her worth to the company. Her responsibilities will include accounts payable and receivable processing as well as general day-to-day accounting activities.