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Up Close - Green, Sustainable NW - September 13, 2012
Pacific Steel & Recycling boosts scrap-iron capacity
New shear to process larger pieces destined for reuse at mills

By Mike McLean
Of the Journal of Business

Pacific Steel's Steve Ball, left, and Doug Stewart say the new equipment will increase the company's scrap processing capacity by four times.
Pacific Steel's Steve Ball, left, and Doug Stewart say the new equipment will increase the company's scrap processing capacity by four times.
—Staff photo by Mike McLean


Pacific Steel & Recycling, the Great Falls, Mont.-based recycling company that got its start here, is installing a massive piece of equipment in Spokane that will increase by four times the company's capacity to process scrap iron destined to be melted down at steel mills and formed into new products.

The equipment includes a guillotine shear with a side-squeeze press that will be operated with a train car-sized hydraulic pumping system, says Steve Ball, incoming man...


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