Seventeen acres of sandy yard in the Tioga County Industrial Park, in a valley of wooded ridges three hours up from the city: the place a great deal of New York's scrap steel comes to be shredded and sent back out. A gift room for Adam Weitsman, who opened the yard in 1997 and collects MLow. The New Yorkers hang where a yard can carry them: on steel plates bolted to the canopy columns, on plate stood on end in the yard, on the scale house and on the flanks of the parked trailers.
Adam Weitsman opened Upstate Shredding in 1997 on a 17 acre site in the Tioga County Industrial Park in Owego, New York. The company calls itself the East Coast's largest privately held scrap metal processor, runs a 10,000 HP Riverside Engineering Mega Shredder in Owego, and processes 1 million tons of ferrous and 250 million pounds of nonferrous scrap metal a year. It was named the 2016 Platts Global Scrap Company of the Year.
Source · Upstate Shredding, Wikipedia ↗
The long blue canopy and its banner, the mountain of crushed cars under it, yellow material handlers with orange peel grapples, the infeed conveyor climbing to the Mega Shredder and its steam, blue radial stackers pouring frag into dark cones, the Ferrous Downstream System, green Macks with tipping trailers, a hydraulic tipper, the scale house, rail gondolas, and the ridges of the Southern Tier all round. Mood: summer noon, the shredder running. Everything is procedural geometry with painted surfaces; nothing is a scan or a photograph. The room is an interpretation, and it hangs the New Yorkers the census recorded at this place first.