5 Scrap Metal Recycling Business Success Stories [2024]

Pat Walls

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Updated: July 24th, 2023

Start A Scrap Metal Recycling Business

When the metal products we use every day come to an end of life, we either discard them or recycle them into useful products without loss of quality. Therefore, starting a metal recycling business can be profitable.

A full-service metal recycling business accepts large quantities of scrap from small scrap yards and the municipal collection points, breaks them down and prepares them for shipment to a manufacturer.

To start a metal recycling business, you need extensive acreage, machinery, and hardworking staff to help you collect and process scrap metal. Recycled metal materials can be used to produce construction supplies such as nails, screws, iron, or other metallic supplies for the construction industry.

Here are some real life success stories of starting a scrap metal recycling business:

Learn more about starting a scrap metal recycling business:

Where to start?

-> How much does it cost to start a scrap metal recycling business?
-> Pros and cons of a scrap metal recycling business

Need inspiration?

-> Examples of established scrap metal recycling business

Other resources

-> Profitability of a scrap metal recycling business

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3. Trans Metal

Trans Metal is a company based in London offering scrap metal pickup in areas such as Wembley, Greenford, Harrow. Our metal collectors guarantee high quality service.

4. Metalico Rochester

Full service scrap metal recycling facility in Rochester New York. Processing everything from household scrap metal to automobiles and industrial metal

3. Trans Metal

4. Metalico Rochester

5. myTOMRA