CMC Recycling to Install Shredder in Tulsa, Okla.

Commercial Metals Co. (CMC), Irving, Texas, has announced plans to install a shredder at its 27-acre CMC Recycling facility in Tulsa, Okla.

CMC Recycling announced in a news release that it has purchased a 4,000 hp Metso Recycling-Texas Shredder plant that contains Metso’s TSH technology. Construction of the shredder will begin in late April with commissioning expected in late 2011.

“The decision to install a shredder at our Tulsa scrap processing yard was based on already captured feedstock from our existing recycling facilities located in Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri and Arkansas,” says Joe Alvarado, CMC president and chief operating officer. “The installation of this shredder strengthens CMC’s presence in the Midwest and our ability to meet the recycling needs of Tulsa and surrounding communities.”

CMC Recycling bills itself as one of the largest processors of nonferrous and ferrous scrap metal in the United States. The company has a particularly strong presence in the South.

CMC and its subsidiaries manufacture, recycle and market steel and metal products, related materials and services through a variety of facilities that include electric arc furnace steel mills, steel fabrication and processing plants, construction-related product warehouses, a copper tube mill, scrap metal recycling facilities and marketing and distribution offices in the United States and in several international markets.