In some cases, the motor vehicles are stripped for usable parts, which the Company sells. The Company uses three machines to process scrap metal. The shredder takes whole motor vehicles, refrigerators, and other large items and pulverizes and shreds these items into many small pieces, a few inches across.
Conveyors take the materials to separate storage locations.
The second machine is an electric hydraulic baler. These cubes are not graded or sorted. Heavy gauge metal material is squeezed, flattened, and then cut, or sheared, into different lengths. The materials most commonly placed in the shear are I-beams, truck frames and large oil tanks. The metals, whether shredded, baled or sheared, are generally sold to steel mills, and the non-metals from the shredder are generally discarded.