Newell Equipment finds receptive market in China

Scott Newell Jr., chairman and CEO of El Paso, Texas-based Newell Recycling Equipment LLC, says his company has installed or sold 19 auto shredding plants to scrap recyclers in the People’s Republic of China. Newell, who also is vice-chair of Nantong City, China-based China Recycling Newell Equipment (Jiangsu) Co. Ltd., says one recently installed shredder can process up to 600 tons per hour.

Among the recent installations is one in the city of Anyang in Henan Province, China, that features three infeed conveyors used to supply feedstock in steady amounts to an 11,000 hp shredder. “When shredding, there are plenty of times when the plant is operating at 500 or even 600 tons per hour,” states Newell.

Newell says his company has orders for three more such 11,000 hp shredders in China and has orders for “11 of our 6,000 hp machines, three of our 4,000 hp models and one of our 3,000 hp plants.”

Newell, whose father was an auto shredding pioneer and who now has several decades of shredding equipment sales and installation experience himself, says regarding the 11,000 hp super-sized plants, “It is difficult to imagine the necessity of feeding the equivalent of 10 automobiles into the infeed chute every minute (or one every six seconds). That is the beauty of having three infeed conveyors. It provides space for three to six cranes to be feeding the shredder at any given moment.”

Referring to the 11,000 hp installation in Anyang, Newell comments, “I am very proud of this installation. Having done this now for more than 50 years, I remember when with a previous shredder powered with 500 hp, we could process 10 tons every hour if we did everything exactly right. Therefore, my pride in having a machine that does the 10 tons in one minute is, I hope, understandable.”