Colorado-based American Iron & Metal Co. Inc. has selected a Metso Texas Shredder TSH100 model for installation at its newest location in Belen, N.M., 20 miles south of Albuquerque.
According to a news release from Metso Texas Shredder, the 100x116 shredding system to be installed includes an infeed conveyor, downstream equipment and controls from Metso Texas Shredder and SGM Magnetics Corp. The power source will be a 5000 hp, DC shredder drive system from Quad Plus of Joliet, Ill.
The new shredding plant will have a capacity of 250 tons per hour and is expected to be operational by early fall of 2010, according to Metso Texas Shredder.
American Iron & Metal is based in Pueblo, Colo., and currently operates shredding and recovery plants in that city and in Colorado Springs. “Our decision to go with Texas Shredder was based on over a decade of exceptional service and support that Texas Shredder has provided us in the shredding field,” says Jim Warren, owner of American Iron & Metal. "We also believe that Metso’s new TSH series is the future for shredding plants,” Warren added.
New Mexico’s Valencia County approved the 15-acre site of the shredding facility in the Rio Grande Industrial Park in Belen in 2009. American Iron & Metal has also acquired an existing facility in Albuquerque as a feeder yard for the shredding operation.
Metso Texas Shredder says the TSH100 sold to American Iron & Metal is the third TSH series shredder sold by Metso Texas Shredder in recent months.
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