Upstate Continues to Grow

The full-service scrap metal facility, which will operate 12 hours per day, seven days per week, will handle ferrous and nonferrous metals.

The 40-acre facility is expected to cost between $25 million to $30 million.

The site will include a Sennebogen 880 EQ pedestal electric crane with a 10-yard grapple to load Handymax vessels for export shipments. The facility also will be equipped with mobile shears, mobile cranes and loaders. The site also will include three 90-foot scales, a nonferrous warehouse with an Harris HRB baler and roll-off trucks.

The site is approximately two hours from Upstate Shredding’s 10,000-horsepower auto shredder in Owego, N.Y.

The new facility provides Upstate Shredding direct access to the Upper Hudson River. A spokesman for Upstate Shredding says the location is ideal because the company needed access to international markets as well as a means to purchase scrap via from other scrap yards in the five-state region.

While the Port Albany location will provide Upstate Shredding LLC-Ben Weitsman & Son Inc. with direct access to offshore shipments, the company also will be able to ship to domestic sources using the two railroads lines that serve the yard.