The world’s leading metal & electronics recycler Sims Metal Management acquires a new Copex Reflex 650 scrap shear

Together with this Reflex scrap shear, installed in static version in Mackay (Queensland) and equipped with a CUMMINS diesel engine especially for the Australian market, Sims Metal Management has a total of 10 machines from Copex French manufacturer.


The previous scrap shear installed for the Sims Group in 2013 is a Lidex machine with side compression with high cutting force of 1300 tons. This machine is being operated on the site of St Marys (New South Wales).

« We appreciate high quality and reliable machines, and are fully satisfied with Copex from the technical point of view as well as from the service provided locally by Copex agent Pacific Materials Handling”, says John Glyde, General Manager of Sims Metal Management, Queensland.

« Our local partnership with Pacific Materials Handling established in 2006 for the sale and service of our products was the key for our success in the Australian territory », comments Mr Frédéric Malin, Chairman of SA COPEX.