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Gulf Coast shredding market heats up.


Mobile, Ala ALA aminolevulinic acid.
Ala alanine.
ala (a´lah) pl. a´lae   [L.] a winglike process.
., may soon be home to two new auto shredding shred  
n.
1. A long irregular strip that is cut or torn off.

2. A small amount; a particle: not a shred of evidence.

tr.v.
 plants, adding significant capacity to the Gulf Coast region.

In mid-July, the city's planning commission Noun 1. planning commission - a commission delegated to propose plans for future activities and developments
commission, committee - a special group delegated to consider some matter; "a committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours" - Milton Berle
 approved an agreement between David's Auto Shredding and an environmental group that had been concerned about the presence of mercury within the operation, according to according to
prep.
1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians.

2. In keeping with: according to instructions.

3.
 a report in the Mobile Press Register.

Company owner David Hickman David Hickman is an American trumpeter. He is a Regents' Professor of trumpet at Arizona State University and past President of the International Trumpet Guild.  has been moving ahead with plans to locate a shredding plant in an industrial section of the city north of downtown Mobile.

Also moving forward with plans to locate an auto shredder in Mobile is Alter Trading Corp. The St. Louis-based scrap firm, like David's Auto Shredding, also negotiated with environmental group Mobile Baykeepers and vowed to monitor for the presence of mercury, Freon and other substances.

Alter's plant is located near the border of Mobile and Chickasaw. The shredder is going to be a 5,000-hp Metso-Texas Shredder model capable of processing 27,000 tons of scrap metal per month, according to the manufacturer.
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Publication:Recycling Today
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Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Aug 1, 2006
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