Yaffe Buys Shredder from Harris

Yaffe Metals – Tulsa, OK, has purchased a Harris HS 98115 shredder plant with a 4,000 horsepower, zero emissions air system and nonferrous metals recovery system. It will be the second shredder from Harris that Yaffe has purchased. Yaffe also operates a Harris auto shredder at its Wichita, Kan., facility.

The auto shredder and downstream system will be located at Yaffe’s Tulsa, Okla., facility, and will replace an auto shredder that has been located at that site for more than 30 years.

"The Harris Shredder provides the exceptional production rates we were looking for in a second shredder with a layout that is perfect for our facility," says Rocky McGee, Yaffe’s general manager.

McGee adds that the new shredder will be capable of processing around 100 tons of material per hour, doubling the throughput of Yafee’s existing Tulsa shredder.

“We are pleased with the productivity we have achieved at the Wichita plant with the Harris shredder. We wanted something similar, but we also increased the size of the machine,” McGee adds.

Along with the auto shredder, the company will be installing a downstream system, including an eddy current separator and ISS system, to extract stainless steel from the auto shredder fluff.

The company hopes to have the new shredder installed and operational by the end of 2011. McGee says they expect to run the existing facility until the new shredder is operational.

Yaffe also operates an auto shredder at its facility in Arkansas.