Working overtime: America's auto shredder capacity grows to feed a hungry global market.When Recycling Today last published its list of auto, shredding plants in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , in October of 2002, the ferrous scrap market was just starting to bounce back after a prolonged slump. In the ensuing 24 months, the global steel industry has continued to prosper, feeding a hunger for the ferrous scrap grades produced at the nation's auto shredding facilities. Recycling companies have responded by upgrading existing plants, replacing some older shredder models and even with several new "greenfield" installations. The list on the pages that follow is indicative of the renewed health of the auto shredding industry, as few plants are now in an idled mode (as had been the case with some in both the 2000 and the 2002 lists), and several new shredder locations can be spotted. Among the new shredding locations is a plant in Lawrenceville, Ga., in suburban Atlanta, opened by Blaze Recycling. The newly-installed shredder competes for feedstock in the last-growing Atlanta region with the two Newell Recycling Atlanta shredder plants. Economists may not think of northwestern Iowa as a fast-growing region, but Toby Shine of Shine Bros BROS Brothers BROS Benefits and Retirement Operations Section (King County, Washington) BROS Barnes and Richmond Operatic Society (London, UK) . Co., Spencer, Iowa Spencer is a city in Clay County, Iowa, United States, at the confluence of the Little Sioux and Ocheyedan Rivers. The population was 11,317 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Clay County. , has enough confidence in the scrap market there to install a new shredding plant at his scrap processing from. A California entrepreneur who owns auto dismantling locations and a rail car repair and dismantling firm is attempting to build it new shredder plant in Colton, Calif., east of Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. . News reports from the area indicate that business owner Charles Siroonian is attempting to obtain permits for a shredding plant to be built on a 19-acre site in Colton. In Ohio, a once-idle shredding plant originally located in Cleveland has been shipped downstate down·state n. The southerly section of a state in the United States. adv. & adj. To, from, or in the southerly section of a state. down to a rural location neat Mansfield, Ohio Mansfield is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Richland CountyGR6. The municipality is located in north-central Ohio in the western foothills of the Alleghenies, approximately 80 miles (129 km) southwest of Cleveland and 66 miles . Grant Milliron, owner of Milliron Industries, says he expects the 6,000-hp shredder to be running by the end of the year. The foundation for the shredder plant was laid in August, and the company has been procuring inventory--mostly auto bodies--to feed the shredder when it starts up. Several scrap recyclers have made the decision to upgrade older auto shredding plants, sometimes purchasing larger models with more horsepower and larger rotors. SchnitzerSteel Industries, Portland, Ore., has been replacing and upgrading its shredder plants, with its Oakland facility having been upgraded in 2003. Some ownership and management changes have occurred within the shredding segment, including an operating agreement An operating agreement is an agreement among limited liability company ("LLC") members governing the LLC's business, and Member's financial and management rights and duties. No state requires an LLC to have an Operating agreement. between Chaparral Steel and Sims Group USA Corp. for Sims to run a Virginia shredding plant built by Chaparral several years ago. SimsGroup will operate the 6,000-hp shredder in Petersburg Va., while Chaparral's nearby electric arc furnace An electric arc furnace (EAF) is a furnace that heats charged material by means of an electric arc. Arc furnaces range in size from small units of approximately one ton capacity (used in foundries for producing cast iron products) up to about 400 ton units used for secondary (EAF EAF - Effort Adjustment Factor ) mill is expected to remain a significant consumer. Investments in shredding capacity have increased activity for industry suppliers, including shredding plant designers, fabricators, castings providers and engine and drive makers. In the United States, the revival of the ferrous scrap sector has largely ridden the shoulders of the obsolete scrap supply, since prompt industrial scrap volumes are not increasing noticeably. Much of the obsolete scrap stream funnels through the shredding plants that are now humming along with as many operating hours as plant managers can sustain. After the late 1990s and the early portion of this decade had shredder operators worrying about their ability to shred material and maintain a profit margin, the current environment is being enjoyed. Most shredder operators have a scrap recycling background, making them all too aware of the boom and bust In economics, the term boom and bust refers to the movement of an economy through economic cycles. The Boom-Bust economic cycle According to most economists, an economic boom is typically characterized by an increased level of economic output (GDP), a corresponding cycles that can affect scrap pricing. For now, though, shredder capacity is in line with a global demand picture that can soak up all the ferrous shred that U.S. plants can produce. ALASKA Anchorage Alaska Metal Recycling ALABAMA Birmingham ACIPCO ACIPCO American Cast Iron Pipe Company (American Cast Iron Pipe Co.) Decatur Tennesse Valley Recycling (formerly Denbo Iron & Metal Co. Inc.) ARIZONA Phoenix Metal Management Arizona LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control Tucson Metal Management Arizona LLC ARKANSAS North Little Rock A. Tenenbaum Co. Inc. CALIFORNIA Anaheim Adams Steel Bakersfield Golden State Metals Inc. Etiwanda Pacific Coast Recycling Co, (formerly Simsmetal America) Oakland Schnitzer Steel Products Co. Redwood City Redwood City, city (1990 pop. 66,072), seat of San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1868. Manufactures include commmunications, electrical, electronic, and medical equipment. Simsmetal America Terminal Island Hugo Neu-Proler Co. COLORADO Colorado Springs Colorado Springs, city (1990 pop. 281,140), seat of El Paso co., central Colo., on Monument and Fountain creeks, at the foot of Pikes Peak; inc. 1886. It is a year-round resort and a booming military, technological, and commercial city. Metal Management--Colorado Springs Denver All Recycling; Metal Management Inc.--Denver; Western Metals Recycling Pueblo American Iron & Metal CONNECTICUT North Haven North Haven, town (1990 pop. 22,249), New Haven co., S Conn., on the Quinnipiac River; settled c.1650, set off from New Haven 1786. Chiefly residential, it has some manufactures, such as aircraft parts, tools, chemicals, and machinery. Metal Management Connecticut Inc. South Norwalk This article is about the SoNo neighborhood in Norwalk. For the SoNo district in Atlanta, see SoNo (Atlanta). For the band, see Sono (band). South Norwalk (also known as SoNo) is a neighborhood in Norwalk, Connecticut. LaJoie's Auto Wrecking Co. FLORIDA Baldwin Global Shredding Technologies/Gerdau AmeriSteel; OmniSource Corp./Ameristeel Jacksonville Commercial Metals Co. Miami Ferrous Processing and Trading--Florida Pensacola Auto-Shred Recycling LLC Pinellas Park Pinellas Park (pĭnĕl`əs), city (1990 pop. 43,426), Pinellas co., W central Fla.; inc. 1915. Mainly residential, it has industries that manufacture electronic equipment and plastics. Acre Iron & Metal Co. (Trademark Metals) Opa Locke Everglades Recycling (Trademark Metals) Orlando Commercial Iron & Metals Co. Inc. Rockledge Yorke Doliner & Co. Tampa Trademark Metals Recycling LLC GEORGIA Athens Carolinas Recycling Group LLC (formerly OmniSource) Atlanta Newell Recycling of Atlanta Inc. (2) Norcross Blaze Recycling and Metals HAWAII Kapolei Hawaii Metal Recycling Co. (a division of Hugo Neu) IOWA Council Bluffs Council Bluffs, city (1990 pop. 54,315), seat of Pottawattamie co., SW Iowa, on and below bluffs overlooking the Missouri River, opposite Omaha, Nebr.; inc. 1853. Alter Scrap Processing Davenport Alter Scrap Processing Sioux City Sioux City, city (1990 pop. 80,505), seat of Woodbury co., NW Iowa, at the junction of the Big Sioux and Floyd rivers with the Missouri; inc. 1857. It is a shipping, wholesale trade, and industrial center for an extensive agricultural and livestock area (including Sioux City Compressed Steel Co. Spencer Shine Bros. Waterloo Alter Scrap Processing (formerly Weissman Iron & Metal) Wilton North Star Recycling ILLINOIS Bourbonnais Belson Scrap & Steel (operates a smaller steel shredder) Chicago Metal Management (4); General Iron Industries Inc. (2) East St, Louis St. Louis Auto Shredding (a division of Pilot Brothers Trading) Peoria Allied Iron & Steel Peoria Behr--Peoria South Beloit Behr Beloit INDIANA East Chicago OmniSource Corp. Fort Wayne OmniSource Corp. Indianapolis Capital City Metals Shredding Yard East Chicago OmniSource Corp. Evansville J. Trockman & Sons Inc. Kokomo Mervis Industries Inc. KANSAS Hutchinson Midwest Iron & Metal Co. Inc. Kansas City Galamba Metals Group LLC--Kaw River Shredding Yard Wichita Glickman Iron & Metal KENTUCKY Ashland Mansbach Metal Co. Henderson River Metals Recycling LLC Louisville River City Shredding Co. (River Metals Recycling) Newport River Metals Recycling LLC LOUISIANA Baton Rouge Southern Scrap Xpress Recycling LaPlace Mississippi River Recycling (a division of Bayou Steel) Monroe Auto Shred of Louisiana CODE, OF LOUISIANA. In 1822, Peter Derbigny, Edward Livingston, and Moreau Lislet, were selected by the legislature to revise and amend the civil code, and to add to it such laws still in force as were not included therein. New Orleans Southern Scrap Material Co. LLC MASSACHUSETTS Everett Prolerized New England Co. (a division of Hugo Neu) Greenfield WTE WTE Waste To Energy WTE Whole Time Equivalent WTE WebSphere Test Environment WTE Wassertechnik GmbH (Germany Water Company) WTE Web Telephony Engine WTE Wind Tunnel Enterprise (NASA) Recycling Inc. MARYLAND Baltimore Baltimore Scrap Corp.; United Iron & Metal (formerly The David J. Joseph Co.) Capitol Heights Joseph Smith & Sons Inc. Hagerstown Conservit Inc. MAINE Auburn Maine Metal Recycling Inc. (operates a light iron shredder) Topsham Grimmel Industries MICHIGAN Detroit Ferrous Processing and Trading Co. (2) Grand Rapids Louis Padnos Iron & Metal Holland Louis Padnos Iron & Metal Jackson OmniSource Corp, (formerly Jackson Metal) Kalamazoo Kalamazoo Metal Recyclers Inc. Kingsford East Kingsford Iron & Metal Sturgis Sturgis Iron & Metal Co. Inc. Taylor Fritz Enterprises Inc. MINNESOTA Anoka Schwartzman Co. Inc. Duluth Bay Side Recycling Corp. St. Paul North Star Recycling MISSOURI Kansas City Galamba Metals Group, Galamet Yard MISSISSIPPI Flowood General Recycling Greenville Greenville Iron & Metal (a division of Morris Recycling) NEBRASKA Columbus Columbus Metal Industries NEVADA Las Vegas Silver Dollar Recycling NEW HAMPSHIRE New Hampshire, one of the New England states of the NE United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts (S), Vermont, with the Connecticut R. forming the boundary (W), the Canadian province of Quebec (NW), and Maine and a short strip of the Atlantic Ocean (E). Concord Advanced Recycling Madbury New England Metal Recycling LLC NEW JERSEY Camden Camden Iron & Metal Inc. Clifton American Shredding Industries; Parkway Iron and Metal Jersey City Hugo Neu Schnitzer East Millville Cumberland Recycling Corp. Newark Metal Management Northeast Inc./NIMCO Shredding Trenton Mercer Wrecking and RecycleCorp.; Trenton Iron and Metal Corp. NEW MEXICO Albuquerque Albuquerque Metals Recycling NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Brooklyn Brooklyn Resource Recovery Inc.; Gershow Recycling Buffalo Gerdau AmeriSteel Buffalo Metals Recycling (formerly Co-Steel Recycling/Advance Division) Green Island R. Kelly Freedman & Son Inc. Lindenhurst Gershow Recycling Long Island Hugo Neu Schnitzer East--Queens Medford Gershow Recycling North Chill Union Processing Owego Ben Weitsman & Son Rensselaer Rensselaer Iron & Steel Inc. Syracuse Roth Steel Corp. NORTH CAROLINA North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. Charlotte Southern Metals Co. Inc. Kernersville Atlantic Scrap & Processing Greensboro D.H. Griffin Wrecking Co. Smithville Atlantic Scrap & Processing Statesville L. Gordon Iron & Metal Co, OHIO Akron City Scrap & Salvage Co. Canton Philip Metals Cleveland Ferrous Processing & Trading Columbus American Car Crushing; Philip Metals Mansfield Milliron Industries (coming online 4Q 2004) Marietta American Car Crushing Toledo North Star Recycling/Toledo Shredding LLC; OmniSource Corp. West Carrollton Metal Shredders Inc. Wooster Wooster Iron & Metal Co. Youngstown Youngstown Iron & Metal Inc. OKLAHOMA Arkoma Yaffe Iron and Metal Oklahoma City CFF See Compensatory Financing Facility. Recycling USA; Standard Iron & Metal Co. Inc. Sand Springs Yaffe Metals OREGON Portland Schnitzer Steel Products Co. PENNSYLVANIA Beaver Falls Philip Metals Coatesville Coatesville Scrap Iron & Metal Erie Liberty Iron & Metal Co. Harrisburg Consolidated Scrap Resources Philadelphia SPC 1. (business) SPC - Statistical Process Control. Something to do with quality management. 2. (body) SPC - Software Productivity Centre. 3. (company) SPC - Software Publishing Corporation. 4. Corp. Pittsburgh Neville Metals (coming online 4Q 2004); Tube City Inc. Schuylkill Haven U.S.S. Achey Inc. Temple Royal Green Corp. Wilkes-Barre DMS (1) (Document Management System) See document management. (2) (Defense Messaging System) An X.500-compliant messaging system developed by the U.S. Dept. of Defense. Shredding Inc. York J & K Shredding RHODE ISLAND Rhode Island, island, United States Rhode Island, island, 15 mi (24 km) long and 5 mi (8 km) wide, S R.I., at the entrance to Narragansett Bay. It is the largest island in the state, with steep cliffs and excellent beaches. Johnston Metals Recycling LLC (a division of Hugo Neu) SOUTH CAROLINA South Carolina, state of the SE United States. It is bordered by North Carolina (N), the Atlantic Ocean (SE), and Georgia (SW). Facts and Figures Area, 31,055 sq mi (80,432 sq km). Pop. (2000) 4,012,012, a 15. Darlington Darlington Shredding Co. Dillon Lockamy Scrap Metal Inc. Hemingway Don's Scrap & Iron Lexington Commercial Metals Co. Spartanburg Carolinas Recycliing Group TENNESSEE Chattanooga PCS (1) (Personal Communications Services) Refers to wireless services that emerged after the U.S. government auctioned commercial licenses in 1994 and 1995. This radio spectrum in the 1. Metals Harriman PCS Metals Jackson The David J. Joseph Co. Johnson City Johnson City Iron & Metal Co. Knoxville PCS Metals Memphis Metal Management--Memphis (2) Morristown Morristown Shredder Inc. Nashville PCS Metals Pulaski Tennessee Valley Recycling LLC TEXAS Beaumont Commercial Metals Co, Corpus Christi Commercial Metals Co. Dallas Commercial Metals Co. Eagle Pass Newell Recycling Co. El Paso Newell Recycling of El Paso Houston CFF Houston; Northwest Recycling LLC; Rose Metal Processing Midlothian TXI TXI Transmit Immediate TXI Taxable Income TXI Transmit Immediate Protocol Chaparral Steel San Antonio Monterrey Iron & Metal; Newell Recycling of San Antonio Seguin Commercial Metals Co. Vinton Commercial Metals Co. Waco M. Lipsitz & Co. Inc. UTAH Utah, state, United States Utah (y  `tä'), Rocky Mt. state of the W United States. Plymouth Western Metals Recycling LLC Salt Lake City Metal Management West Inc.; Western Metals Recycling LLC VIRGINIA Chesapeake Simsmetal--Chesapeake (formerly Bay Bridge Enterprises) Lorton Davis Industries Inc. Montvale Shredded Products Corp. Petersburg Simsmetal (formerly Chapparral) Richmond Simsmetal America WASHINGTON Seattle Seattle Iron and Metal Tacoma General Metals/Schnitzer Steel Vancouver Pacific Coast Shredding WEST VIRGINIA Wheeling Automatic Recycling WISCONSIN Fond Du Lac Fond du Lac (fŏn` də lăk', –jə–), city (1990 pop. 37,757), seat of Fond du Lac co., E central Wis., in a resort region at the south end of Lake Winnebago; inc. 1852. Sadoff Iron & Metal Co. Green Bay Samuels Recycling Co. Madison Samuels Recycling Co. Milwaukee Miller Compressing Co. (2) |
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