Andersen’s Salvage Purchases Shredder Plant from Riverside Engineering

Riverside Engineering, San Antonio, Texas, has sold an M-88 Shredder System to Andersen’s Sales and Salvage for its Greeley, Colo., recycling facility. 

The system includes an 88-by-112 shredder mill, feed system, operator station and H2PRO water injection system. The plant will be powered by a 4,000-hp DC shredder drive supplied by Quad Plus. The Greeley yard’s upgrade will include a new downstream separation system supplied by Osborn Engineering. A Rockwell Automation system designed by Riverside will control the shredder and downstream functions.

As a result of the installation, the firm expects to increase its production capacity to shred and recycle more than 15,000 tons per month of scrap autos and other metal products.

“Our choice of Riverside was based on their heavier hammer and the higher inertia of their rotor compared to other shredder manufacturers 80-inch machines,” Dean Andersen, owner of Andersen’s Sales, says. He expects the new processing facility to be installed by early 2008. 

“We have integrated several of the key design features of our MegaShredder into the smaller M-88 system,” Randy Brace, president of Riverside, says. “We are excited about the opportunity to work with the Andersen’s on this project.  We have high expectations, and Andersen’s Sales is the perfect customer for our first M-88 installation.”  The M-88 will complement Riverside’s M-122 and M-106 models and the Newell legacy systems supported by the firm. 

Andersen’s Sales and Salvage is based in Greeley, with a 38-acre recycling facility consisting of metal shredding operations along with a self-serve auto parts business. Since the company’s founding in 1959, Kennie Andersen and his son Dean have grown this family business into a leading ferrous and nonferrous scrap processor in the Northern Colorado region.

Riverside Engineering provides metal shredding solutions to the recycling industry. Its M-Series shredder product line is designed to meet the needs of recycling operations of all sizes, according to the company. Riverside Engineering is a certified Rockwell Automation Systems Integrator, providing control packages for plant operation. More information is available at www.rsengr.com.