Ben Weitsman of Albany, a division of the East Coast’s largest privately held scrap metal processor, has begun work on a multi-million-dollar project to add a 3,000 horsepower Riverside Engineering scrap metal shredder at the facility located at 300 Smith Boulevard in the Port of Albany.
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.
The new shredder, which will add 20 additional positions at the Albany facility, has a 70” mill and is capable of shredding 80 tons of scrap material per hour.
All shredder residue will be sent to the main facility so the nonferrous can be further processed through the eddy currents, micro fines plant, wire chopping plant and newly commissioned dry media plant to separate out the aluminum.
Published in the September 2018 Edition
