AUTO RECYCLING
Newco adds shredder in Newfoundland S
t. John’s, Newfoundland–based Newco Metal & Auto Recycling has commissioned an M6090 modular automobile shredder plant and non-ferrous separation system from Wendt Corporation. The installation represents Newco’s first automobile shredder and is expected to provide new market opportunities and economic advantages for processing the company’s scrap metal. Newco was originally founded in 1992 and later acquired in 2010 by current owner, Bob Anstey. Over the past nine years, Anstey has worked to help grow and expand the company by modernizing it with new equipment and technology. Newco has 12 stores throughout Newfoundland and Labrador and serves over 100 municipalities by providing ferrous and nonferrous metals cleanup services of landfills and industrial sites. Located on an island, Newco faced transportation obstacles and high freight charges of their product, which initially sparked the company’s interest in purchasing a shredder. “I could see the trouble that we were getting into with not having enough transportation to move the product to a market and the inefficient way we were doing it by putting it on trucks and shipping it off,” said Anstey. “We couldn’t keep going that way because all of our profits were getting eaten up by transportation. If we didn’t change the way we did business, we wouldn’t survive.” Newco’s new automobile shredder plant and non-ferrous system was installed and commissioned on the company’s greenfield site in St. John’s, Newfoundland, in April 2019. Their new Wendt M6090 automobile shredder features a Bowe disc rotor and 2,500-hp DC motor. The shredding plant also includes an infeed conveyor, dual magstand with electromagnetic drums, ballistic separator and modular design features, including a pre-fabricated motor enclosure and platform, remote pre-wired e-house, control pulpit and structural steel
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frame that allows the shredder to be installed on a flat concrete pad. Newco’s equipment purchase also includes a non-ferrous recovery system containing two eddy current separators to recover aluminum (zorba) and three Tomra Finders to recover insulated copper wire and stainless steel (zurik). With the installation of their new shredder, Newco now has the ability to easily ship their finished products off of the island. “The metal shredding plant is very important to my business,” Anstey said. “If I didn’t have the metal shredding plant set up now, we would have very little transportation leaving the island to take my material to other markets to sell. We would have been in dire straits because there was no way to efficiently process the material and ship it and get enough money out of it to break even. With the shredder now, we can do it at home in our backyard with our own local employees and export ourselves.”
Newco’s new automobile shredder plant and nonferrous system (top), installed and commissioned on the company’s greenfield site in St. John’s, Newfoundland, in April.