Fighting fires in Auto Shredding Plants
From Recycling Today Auto shredding plant operators regularly face the risk of fire. Fighting fires Features - Shredder Application Focus Auto shredding plant operators regularly face the risk of fire. Here’s how one company is addressing it.May 31, 2017 Curt Harler © Arenacreative | Dreamstime.com The best problem is the one avoided. That is especially true when it comes to fires at automobile shredding facilities. “Just because you have guards on your site doesn’t mean they are walking everywhere and monitoring heat,” says Donnie Brewer Jr., president of DCC (Don’s Car Crushing) Metal Recycling. He is the third generation of the Brewer family to manage the company, which was founded during World War II by his grandfather Dewey Brewer as Hemingway Scrap Iron and Metal and renamed by his father, Donnie Brewer Sr., in 1973 when he took over the business. With locations in the South Carolina cities of Conway, Hemingway, Holly Hill, Ladson, Sell...