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By the mid-1960s the rag-and-bone trade as a whole had fallen into decline; in the 1950s, Manchester and Salford had, between them, around 60 rag merchants, but this had dropped to about 12 by 1978, many having moved into the scrap-metal trade. Local merchants blamed several factors, including demographic changes, for the decline of their industry.
Sims Limited (formerly Sims Metal Management Limited) is a global environmental services conglomerate, operating through a number of divisions, with a focus on: (a) Ferrous and Non-ferrous metal recycling, (b) enterprise data destruction and cloud asset management (c) post-consumer electronic goods recycling and reuse, (d) municipal waste recycling, (e) gas to energy, and (f) waste to energy.
Metal Management was a metal recycling company, founded in 1983 and re-incorporated in Delaware, USA, in June 1986.Originally known as General Parametrics, Metal Management entered the scrap metal recycling industry on April 11, 1996, through its merger with EMCO Recycling Corp.
A scrapyard is a recycling center that buys and sells scrap metal. Scrapyards are effectively a scrap metal brokerage. [1] Scrapyards typically buy any base metal; for example, iron, steel, stainless steel, brass, copper, aluminum, zinc, nickel, and lead would all be found at a modern-day scrapyard. Scrapyards will often buy electronics ...
In 2015, Upstate Shredding bought a 5.6 million stake in Metalico Inc., a Cranford, New Jersey–based scrap metal processing company. [ 10 ] Various other acquisitions took place during 2012 to 2016, including acquisitions of a scrap yard in New Castle, Pennsylvania , [ 11 ] a port facility in Albany, New York, [ 5 ] and Empire Recycling in ...
Radius Recycling, Inc., previously known as Schnitzer Steel Industries, Inc., is a steel manufacturing and scrap metal recycling company headquartered in Portland, Oregon. Founded in 1906, the publicly traded company is a component Russell 2000 Index with approximately 3,500 employees. In 2023, the company adopted its current name and a new ...
In 2011 Stena Metall AB acquired Norsk Metallretur, a ferrous and non-ferrous metals recycler. [ 30 ] [ 31 ] In 2021, Johnson Matthey, a British chemical company, joined in a venture with Stena Recycling to develop a process for the recycling of lithium-ion batteries and battery cell materials.