Upstate Expands Shedding Capacity

Upstate Shredding, Owego, N.Y., will soon begin installing a 10,000-horsepower super-sized shredder that it says will allow it to process 450 tons per hour of scrap.

According to a news release from Upstate, the new shredding plant will include six 110-inch by 72-inch drum magnets and is scheduled to be up and running in November of 2009.

Equipment vendors involved in the project include Riverside Engineering, San Antonio, Texas;
Metso-Mueller Engineering, New Berlin, Wis.; and SGM Magnetics Corp., Sarasota, Fla.

According to Upstate Shredding’s Kim Weitsman, “What is interesting about the project is we are installing two SGM finishing magnets that will help us produce scrap with .17 and below copper content. This should help us provide mills with a busheling substitute.”

Upstate Shredding bills itself as the largest scrap processing firm based in New York. The company says that, in tandem with its sister company Ben Weitsman & Son, it anticipates it will process 600,000 combined tons of all grades of ferrous and nonferrous scrap in 2009.

Upstate Shredding currently operates a 120/104 6,000 hp auto shredder that is capable of processing 225 tons per hour.