Scrap dealer relocating part of plant.

The outdoor industrial portion of M. Lipsitz and Company, a Waco, Texas, scrap dealer, is relocating to a new location in the city, according to a report in the Waco Tribune (Waco, Texas).

While the company will continue to operate at its traditional site, it will shut down its shredder and upgrade to a larger machine at the new location.

The company will still process nonferrous metals like copper, aluminum and brass at the existing facility, but most of that work will take place inside the company's 75,000 square feet of warehouse space downtown, company president Tom Salome tells the Tribune.

"We're moving the outdoor stuff because that makes it better for the area than having the heavy industrial processing right there in the neighborhood," he says. "I think it will be appropriate for the area we're moving into."

According to the report, Waco officials have praised the move, which they said will make the central operation more compatible with its neighboring residential and business districts. The Tribune reports that the company has received noise complaints in the past as a result of the shredder.

The company has taken steps to address these complaints by building fences and planting trees to screen the piles of metal and the shredder.

Lipsitz tells the Tribune the new shredder will be larger and have better environmental controls. The company will add to its workforce to operate the new plant, which it hopes to have operational by the end of 2005.