Aug. 20 2024 | Shredder Team | Sargents Equipment
In addition to the shredder, the full-service auto and scrap metal recycling yard is adding ferrous and nonferrous downstream systems.
Chris Voloschuk, Associate Editor
May 30, 2024
Neil Morris has long dreamt of adding an automobile shredder to
his full-service auto salvage and scrap metal recycling company,
NuCycle LLC, and soon will make it a reality.
NuCycle, Morris’ Rock Hill, South Carolina-based parent company
which owns Morris Scrap Metal Co. Inc. in Kings Mountain, North
Carolina, and Carolina Salvage/U-Pull-It in Rock Hill, is in the
process of installing a Danieli Centro Recycling DCR series
shredder at the 35-acre Carolina Salvage yard. He says he expects
the 4,000 horsepower, 80-by-108 model to be operational as soon as
July.
“We’re very excited,” Morris says. “This has been a lifelong dream
of mine to have an auto shredder. And the reason we chose to put
it in Rock Hill was because of the proximity to [area] steel
mills.”
Morris says he and his business partner, Charles Saleh, traveled
all over the United States and Canada in recent years to look at
15 different shredder installations to help inform their purchase,
and the installation process began in December 2023 with the help
of Chicago-based Sargents Equipment and Repair.
“We just traveled around and, basically, took all the good we’ve
seen and incorporated all the good we’ve seen into our
installation,” Morris says. We went out to these sites, and you
never go to a similar installation. No two are the same.” Danielie
shredder install at Carolina Salvage/U-Pull-It
Fourteen acres of the Carolina Salvage/U-Pull-It site have been
reserved for the shredder installation, which will include a
ferrous downstream system Morris expects to be operational in July
and a nonferrous downstream system he says should be online in
August.
Once the shredder begins operating, Morris says it will be capable
of processing 100 tons per hour and will be fed by three material
handlers. Approximately 12 employees will operate the system in
two daily shifts. He says about 60 percent of the shredded
material will be vehicles, while 40 percent will be other types of
scrap the company accepts.
A major selling point of the Danieli model is its inverter motor
drive system, which Morris says practically runs itself and is
“the most efficient processing available in the world.” Danieli is
headquartered in Italy and has a U.S. location in Cranberry
Township, Pennsylvania.
“Danieli’s a world leader and they actually designed this shredder
just for the U.S. market,” Morris says. “They have a good
reputation, and we like the people we’re dealing with.”
The shredder’s ferrous downstream system will consist of two Eriez
P-Rex permanent drum magnets and the Erie, Pennsylvania-based
company’s Shred-1 ballistic separator to produce low copper shred
Morris says mills currently desire. The ferrous system also
consists of a Steinert GmbH polishing magnet situated before the
picking line.
“Just talking around [about the ferrous downstream], people said
in the next 10 years, if you’re not making the low copper shred,
you’re kind of out of the market,” Morris says.
The shredder’s nonferrous system will consist of three eddy
current separators and one sensor sorter made by Germany-based
Steinert to further clean up auto shredder residue (ASR).
The installation will be the culmination of a five-year project,
Morris says, adding that he initially wanted to add a shredder to
his family business’ operation as far back as 2005, but elected to
purchase a new shear instead. Now, he’s achieving a lifelong goal.
“[An auto shredder] is just something I’ve always been intrigued
about,” he says. “Plus, back in ’05, they didn’t have all the
downstream stuff you have now. It’s amazing what products you can
make with your downstream now.”
Besides vehicles, Carolina Salvage/U-Pull-It—soon to be renamed
Palmetto Recycling—accepts ferrous and nonferrous metals including
appliances, industrial equipment, steel, copper, aluminum, brass,
tin and more, and also accepts items such as batteries, radiators
and catalytic converters, among others.
The company also provides gondola trailers, flat beds and
containers from 20 yards to 60 yards to help manage recyclables.
The U-Pull-It yard has over 1,200 different parts vehicles in
stock, including all types of cars, trucks, vans SUVs, lawn and
other equipment, bicycles and more.