Article: Growth industry: the list of America's auto shredding plants has grown with the global metals boom.(AUTO SHREDDER UPDATE)(Directory)

Some 220 auto shredding plants are tearing away at car bodies and other scrap across the country, according to the latest survey of the shredding plant landscape conducted by Recycling Today's staff. In the two years since this list was last published, pricing and demand for scrap metals have soared, giving shredder operators the confidence to upgrade many of the plants on the list. New plants have also been added.

Long-time shredding equipment vendor Jim Schwartz of Metso-Texas Shredder called the phenomenon "shredder mania" at the spring 2006 BIR (Bureau of International Recycling) World Recycling Convention. Schwartz said that he knew of some 26 shredding ...

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