Silver Dollar gets back to shredding - Installations - Brief Article

Recycling Today, August, 2002

Silver Dollar Recycling, North Las Vegas, Nev., has revved up production on its 98/115 shredder built by the Harris Shredder Division and installed early this year.

The metals shredder, the second U.S. shredder plant made by Harris, Peachtree City, Ga., began operating from seven to 10 hours per day this spring to begin chewing through inventory collected during the installation downtime. The motor on Silver Dollar's previous shredder, a Newell Industries plant, gave out in June of 2001.

"The machine has been fantastic," says Jim Brewer, operations manager of Silver Dollar Recycling. Brewer has been impressed with the quietness of the plant and the innovative design of the reject door, which allows unshreddables to be rejected quickly, before any damage is done and with almost no blocking of material flow through the plant.

Brewer says Harris sales, service and installation personnel acted quickly to get the shredder up and running after their existing plant shut down. He singles out project manager Javier Herrera as having been especially responsive in meeting deadlines and troubleshooting to resolve installation issues quickly.