WASTE MANAGEMENT IN ACTION – CABLE RECYCLING
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LOPEZ SCRAP METAL HAS WEATHERED THE COVID-19 DOWNTURN AND IS PLANNING TO EXPAND, WITH ELDAN RECYCLING EQUIPMENT.
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n almost four years, Lopez Scrap Metal increased its cable recycling operations from two shifts a week to 24 hours, five days a week. Isidro Lopez, President of the Texasbased scrap metal company, is now introducing a third production line to increase capacity. The third-generation recycler hopes the new line will boost
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production to about 1360 tonne a month by 2023. “We could even increase that number,” Isidro says. “I’m super excited to see production grow.” Lopez Scrap Metal began in 1970 as a one truck operation collecting scrap metal from various businesses. Isidro says the company expanded to collect and cut steel from surrounding rail
yards and, eventually “started taking everything” from copper to aluminium, brass and all base metals. He says the company is in a prime location, on the border of Mexico, which has a large automobile wire manufacturing sector with plenty of cables to be recycled. Lopez Scrap Metal strips the copper from wire harnesses and processes it back to
