Cimco Upgrading its Auto Shredder System

The U.S. Shredder and Castings Group, Trussville, Ala., says it has landed the contract to provide a nonferrous recovery system at an auto shredder operated by Cimco Resources Inc. (http://cimcoresources.com/) in Sterling, Ill.

According to a U.S. Shredder news release, the system was developed after detailed analysis by Cimco executives. The first stage in the process was working with U.S. Shredder engineers to determine the nonferrous metals that Cimco’s current nonferrous system was not recovering and the volumes of nonferrous metals.

The second stage developed by U.S. Shredder was designing the layout to incorporate the new nonferrous system in an existing building, while placing the remainder of the system in a new structure yet to be built. Finally, U.S. Shredder’s Installation Engineering Group designed the installation details.

Cimco’s new system will incorporate existing eddy currents with two new “fines” recovery eddy currents, plus stainless and copper wire recovery systems.

“We looked at many of the systems and technology for the recovery of fines, stainless and copper wire that were available on the market,” says John Gralewski, Cimco Resources president. “What we discovered was the system built by U.S. Shredder provided the most recovery of metals with only one pass. The cleanliness of the recovered product after only one pass was a deciding factor as well. We saw that proper separation and product presentation to the recovery equipment was extremely important as well.”

Construction engineering and facility layout will be provided by U.S. Shredder’s Installation Engineering Group., with the installation expected to begin in May of 2011.

More information on U.S. Shredder and Castings can be found at www.usshredder.com.