Car Crushers

[Sam]

Had a massive 2hr workshop/lecture today with two blokes from a company called Simms (the worlds biggest scrap metal recycling company) and they were going though a few figures with us which I thought may be of some interest to you guys.

Their biggest crusher is the same size as 4 average houses and will crush a double decker bus dropped in whole.

Their car crushers that do 3 cars at a time cost £800 in electricity just to turn on with nothing in.

The same machine costs £70,000 per month in electric bills when crushing cars on a daily basis!

[tech1889]

shows how much money is in the scrap game as they can afford them bills and still make a mint !

[Ant1981]

Their car crushers that do 3 cars at a time cost £800 pounds in electricity just to turn on with nothing in.

That's some current draw. I'd like to see the figures of how they arrive at that one.

[Sam]

Their car crushers that do 3 cars at a time cost £800 pounds in electricity just to turn on with nothing in.

That's some current draw. I'd like to see the figures of how they arrive at that one.

Well the two guys who came in were head of sustainability in the UK so no one questioned there figures.

[AlanD]

And they blame motorist for global warming

[Sam]

And they blame motorist for global warming

They said that they use 2% of the power that it would take to make all the steel they process from scratch. This becomes even lower when you include the plastics they recycle.

[Chris.]

Average of £100-150 per car these days. to the customer.  THey must get about £175 on it.

That means @ 70k electric bill they need to crush 400 cars a month to make profit.

[Sam]

Average of £100-150 per car these days. to the customer.  THey must get about £175 on it.

That means @ 70k electric bill they need to crush 400 cars a month to make profit.

They recon to crush 500,000 cars a year 

[Chris.]

41,666 a month?

Seems a lot of cars!

[Sam]

41,666 a month?

Seems a lot of cars!

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