Once complete, all shredding for Albany will occur on-site which will enable final shred product to be sold and shipped direct from the Port of Albany via truck, barge, deep sea vessel and rail. According to the company the new shredder, which will add 20 additional positions at the Albany facility, has a 70-inch mill and is capable of shredding 80 tons of scrap material per hour.
All ASR material, a by-product of the shredding process, will be sent to the main facility in Owego so the nonferrous can be further processed through the eddy currents, micro fines plant, wire chopping plant and newly commissioned dry media plant, a state-of-the-art processing technology that further processes zorba, a shredded mix of non-ferrous metals consisting primarily of aluminum generated by eddy-current separator or other segregation techniques, to separate out the aluminum from the heavies (copper, brass, zinc, and stainless). Ben Weitsman of Albany, which was a newly constructed scrap metal recycling facility that opened in August 2013, has become one of Upstate Shredding – Weitsman Recycling’s highest customer volume yards in the network.
“This is a plan we have had in the works for some time and I am happy to announce that work on the shredder is underway and once complete, will add more jobs and revenue to the local economy. In addition, this will be the third shredder for the company and is perfectly positioned within our geographic footprint to complement our shredding operations in Owego, New York and New Castle, Pennsylvania. In 2019, our goal is to process one million tons of shredded scrap alone between the three shredders and given current scrap volumes at our feeder yards we feel this goal will be easily attainable,” said Adam Weitsman, CEO of Upstate Shredding – Weitsman Recycling.
Weitsman has been credited in the industry with ushering in ‘the new age of scrap yards,’ complete with fully paved yards and brand-new buildings, technology, equipment, fencing and landscaping. The Binghamton, Jamestown and Owego Weitsman facilities were recently renovated and the Albany retail scrap yard and New Castle, PA retail scrap yard and shredder were recently built as new operations from the ground up. In addition, the Syracuse yard is currently undergoing a $5 million renovation and the company recently began operations at its brand new dry media plant in Owego. The micro fines plant, which extracts precious metals from shredder residue, will also be fully operational in Owego starting next month, the company says.
