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Article: Metal-eating monster. (scrap recovery plant; steel shredder)

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March 24, 1997
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New scrap recovery plant has world's biggest steel shredder

A former Packard Motor Co. site on Detroit's near east side has been transformed into a $14.5 million scrap recovery plant that opens this week.

Strong Steel Products L.L.C., at 6464 Strong Ave. near East Grand Boulevard and Mt. Elliott, boasts the world's largest, most powerful scrap-steel shredder, says Jeff Cole, CEO and board chairman of the privately held Ferrous Processing & Trading Co., Strong Steel's parent company.

Cole, a former lawyer, combined an avaricious intellectual curiosity and love of history with a driving competitiveness to expand his business to $145 million in sales for ...

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