Steel Dynamics to Upgrade Shredder System

The U.S. Shredder and Castings Group, headquartered in Brookhaven, Miss., has announced that Steel Dynamics Inc. has selected its to upgrade the company’s current shredder system in Rocky Mount, Va.

The project is the second phase of two upgrades at the Rocky Mount (Shredded Products LLC) yard, according to U.S. Shredder President Bill Tigner.

Phase One includes the installation of a complete standalone nonferrous system consisting of three Steinert eddy current systems and an ISS system.

Phase Two will upgrade the system with a WEG 4000-hp motor, U.S. Shredder’s unique shredder control and management system, water injection system, new control housing with operator station, U.S. Shredder’s closed-loop air system and new ferrous downstream equipment. Then the ferrous downstream system will be connected to the nonferrous system, all of which will be operating inside a newly erected building.

“The entire system and installation plan was designed to create minimum downtime for the shredder while the upgrade was accomplished,” Tigner says.

The U.S. Shredder and Castings Group offers complete scrap shredding systems; Moros scrap shears, balers and loggers; and shredder castings, service and consulting to the scrap industry in North and Central America. The company is also the North American partner of Toratec Metal Separation systems.

More information is available at www.usshredder.com.