Newell Recycling Orders its Savannah Shredder

Newell Recycling LLC, Atlanta, has purchased a 120 SXS shredder plant from The Shredder Co., Canutillo, Texas, to be installed at a new scrap recycling facility located near the Port of Savannah, Ga.

Bobby Triesch, vice president of Newell Recycling, and Scott Newell III, president of The Shredder Co., say that the facility will be open for business within the next few months and the shredder plant will be operational before the end of 2008. The establishment of the new location was announced by Newell Recycling in April of 2007.

Triesch and Scott Newell III are both grandsons of Alton Newell, a pioneer of the modern shredding plant.

In Savannah, the infeed conveyor, the 120 SXS shredder, the under-shredder oscillator and the computer and electrical controls (named the Smart Shredding System) will be supplied by The Shredder Co., according to a news release from that company.

The Smart Shredding System “allows for complete automation of the feeding of the shredder” and “has very significantly improved efficiency of the plant as measured by the tons per hour per horsepower consumed,” according to The Shredder Co.

Bobby Triesch and his team at Newell Recycling  are helping to design downstream separation equipment “of a proprietarily nature” for both the shredded steel scrap and the nonferrous metal to be recovered, according to the news release.

Newell Recycling is a leading scrap processor in the Southeast with two existing large shredders already in operation in Atlanta plus a network of 12 feeder yards and a transportation system consisting of a fleet of rail cars and a fleet of trucks.

The Shredder Co. designs and makes scrap shredding machines and also operates a steel foundry that produces replacement parts for shredding plants as well as castings for the mining and rock quarry industries.