Hello, All!

I am with SICON-America and joined to learn more about the business as well as share any information I have.

We are a German based company in Atlanta, Georgia.

If anyone has any questions, feel free to ask away!

Welcome from New York. What do you do, if I may ask, in your Atlanta operation?

Originally Posted by HipoGear

Welcome from New York. What do you do, if I may ask, in your Atlanta operation?

Thanks for the welcome!

I am the sales manager for SiCon. We sell Shredders, sorters, FE downstream and Non FE downstream components and we also design processes to improve the efficiency of existing operations.

That's cool. I'm currently reading Junkyard Planet. He talks about the Chinese shredding Christmas tree lights. I guess your company would supply the high tech gadgets for anyone that wanted to do that sort of thing here, right?

Sicon - welcome to the forum, would like to hear your thoughts and background on machines used for processing scrap. If you could do that without giving up guarded information and advertising your company specifically (forum rules). Especially how machines could be utilized by a small scale scrapper, processing scrap that is more profitable by machine. Maybe some idea of "payback" rates of particular type of machines with various scrap feeds. Thanks!

Hip O Gear - I hope you are enjoying and learning as much as I am, reading "Junkyard Planet". The Christmas tree light scrap reference appears a few times in the book. Starting in the introduction, "a single strand of burned-out Christmas tree lights weighs almost nothing in the hand". What happens when one company in China processes 2.2 million pounds of these "American throw-a ways". Are the amount of copper and plastic that is recovered when 20 million pounds is processed annually in China. The book puts things in perspective and a good read for anyone seriously wanting to know more.