Greenwave Salvage & Recycling to add shredder

Greenwave Salvage & Recycling to add shredder
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Frankfort, New York-based Greenwave Salvage & Recycling majority owner and President Hans Hendrick says his company will install a shredder supplied by Hammel Recyclingtechnik GmbH, headquartered in Bad Salzungen, Germany, this summer at its yard in East Schuyler, New York.

Hendrick says the VB 950 primary shredder will be delivered to the yard by mid-August. The company is installing the shredder itself, and Hendrick says he expects to begin processing material within two months. The installation also will include a downstream drum magnet to recover ferrous material and eddy current separator, which will recover aluminum. Hendrick says he initially will work with brokers to sell the recovered metals.

The red metal scrap generated by the shredder will be directed to the auto shredder residue (ASR), which the company plans to sell for further processing.

Hendrick previously owned Hendrick’s Salvage. Vreeland Asset Management, New York City, took a stake in the company two years ago, he says, which is when the company’s name was changed to Greenwave Salvage & Recycling.

The company is looking to acquire two more yards within 60 miles of its main processing location in East Schuyler, Hendricks says, so it would operate three feeder yards in addition to the main yard.

“There are not a lot of yards for sale,” he says, adding that competition among potential buyers also is an issue.

Hendricks says he was not interested in installing a hammer mill shredder because they require more maintenance and are more dangerous to operate.

The company’s Hammel shredder will be installed inside a building that already houses GreenWave’s nonferrous processing operations. It will be fitted with a 6-inch screen, and material that is not screened out will be refed to the shredder.   

“We started getting more material than we can handle. We started running out of space and getting overwhelmed,” Hendricks says of his reasons for installing the shredder. The shredder also will allow Greenwave to be more competitive, he says, and will “cut trucking in half” by allowing the company to get more density per load.

Greenwave specializes in removing or relocating heavy equipment and machinery, construction debris, bridge beams and other large, oversized and hard to move items. It serves customers in New York, Vermont, western Massachusetts and northern Pennsylvania.

Hendrick says Greenwave’s traffic from itinerant customers has grown by nearly 700 customers in the last three months. The company has used social media, primarily Facebook, to grow this segment of its business and offers extended hours on Saturday and Sunday to service these customers.

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Source: Recycling Today
Greenwave Salvage & Recycling to add shredder
<![CDATA[Frankfort, New York-based Greenwave Salvage & Recycling majority owner and President Hans Hendrick says his company will install a shredder supplied by Hammel Recyclingtechnik GmbH, headquartered in Bad Salzungen, Germany, this summer at its yard in East Schuyler, New York.Hendrick says the VB 950 primary shredder will be delivered to the yard by mid-August. The company is installing the shredder itself, and Hendrick says he expects to begin processing material within two months. The installation also will include a downstream drum magnet to recover ferrous material and eddy current separator, which will recover aluminum. Hendrick says he initially will work with brokers to sell the recovered metals.The red metal scrap generated by the shredder will be directed to the auto shredder residue (ASR), which the company plans to sell for further processing. Hendrick previously owned Hendrick’s Salvage. Vreeland Asset Management, New York City, took a stake in the company two years ago, he says, which is when the company’s name was changed to Greenwave Salvage & Recycling.The company is looking to acquire two more yards within 60 miles of its main processing location in East Schuyler, Hendricks says, so it would operate three feeder yards in addition to the main…