Lane Joins Upstate Shredding as GM of Nonferrous Operations

Kris Lane has joined Upstate Shredding LLC as general manager of the company’s Nonferrous Operations.

Prior to Upstate, Lane was joint product manager for Schnitzer Steel at the company’s Everett, Mass., port facility. There he managed daily operations and technology upgrades for a plant that produced up to 4.5 million pounds of nonferrous metals per month, primarily for international export.

“Kris’ 12 years experience in the scrap metal business with career emphasis in technologies increasing nonferrous yields and his portside export experience is a rare combination,” says Adam Weitsman, president of Upstate Shredding. “With Kris’s leadership strengths, we’re confident we can turn our nonferrous export team into one of the strongest in the industry.”

Upstate Shredding recently completed a $25 million dollar investment to its main processing plant in Owego. Upgrades included adding the most advanced nonferrous separation technology available today: a polishing drum magnet system that automatically removes electric motors containing copper armatures; four new dynamic ferrous metal separation systems using eddy currents; a dual-energy X-Ray separator that identifies metal particles by atomic density; six new dry-heavy media plants to remove copper from aluminum; optic color sorters that analyze metals by shape and color to trigger automatic separation and a new $8 million dollar system that separates copper wire from plastic insulation.

“We have made significant investments to improve Upstate’s nonferrous metal recovery system and with Kris on board we have the best management in place to align with our expansion strategy,” Weitsman adds.