Midwest Scrap planning $13M expansion

SEATTLE (Scrap Monster): A local scrap metal business is expanding its operations.

Midwest Scrap Management, 4501 Packers Ave., is investing $13 million at its location in Kansas City, Mo. The non-ferrous recovery system will be housed at the shredding facility, 8116 Wilson Road. The project is expected to be completed by August.

According to the Kansas City Business Journal, the company’s founder and CEO, Kenny Burgess, said the expansion of the Kansas City facility will allow the company to continue to grow. The company opened the facility in 2005 and recently completed another $25 million expansion at the shredder facility in Park City, Kan.

Once operational, the new system can collect more commodities from its normal scrap metal recycling processes. It also will lessen the operation’s environmental impact, the Kansas City Business Journal reported.

The company also is planning to add a 7,000 horsepower shredding facility in Oklahoma City, Okla. That project should be under construction by the end of the year and completed by 2017.

Courtesy: www.newspressnow.com