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In December 2014 Horizon ended all service to Puerto Rico and sold the former Austral Entente to All Star Metals LLC, Brownsville, Texas, for demolition in the US, though the vessel was subsequently towed to India. [13] [14] Ex-Austral Ensign, after having been laid up Bellingham, WA since 2007, was sold for scrap in April 2016. [15]
Removing steel plates from a ship using cranes [1] at Alang Ship Breaking Yard in India. Ship breaking (also known as ship recycling, ship demolition, ship scrapping, ship dismantling, or ship cracking) is a type of ship disposal involving the breaking up of ships either as a source of parts, which can be sold for re-use, or for the extraction of raw materials, chiefly scrap.
Scrap metal rusts in the snow (Finland) The metal recycling industry encompasses a wide range of metals. The more frequently recycled metals are scrap steel, iron (ISS), lead, aluminum, copper, stainless steel, and zinc. Steel [9] is the most recycled due to its sustainable properties. There are two main categories of metals: ferrous and non ...
Oct. 31—Only have a minute? Listen instead There's a good chance the former USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) aircraft carrier will arrive at the Port of Brownsville around Dec. 15 for dismantling.
The company was founded as Schnitzer Steel by Russian immigrant Sam Schnitzer in 1906 as a one-person scrap metal recycler. [2] Between 1947 and 1950, his son, Harold Schnitzer, worked at the company. [3] In 1984, the company bought Cascade Steel Rolling Mills, who operated a steel mill in McMinnville, Oregon. [4]
[6] [11] That year, Weitsman won the Platts Industry Leadership Award and the AMM Scrap Company of the Year award for the second year in a row. [12] [13] He was awarded Scrap Company of the Year by American Metal Market in 2015 and 2016. [14] Weitsman and his wife, Kim Weitsman, have invested in real estate in Skaneateles, New York.
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.
On June 23, 2008, Allied was purchased by its smaller competitor Republic Services, Inc for US$6.1 billion. The merged company, retaining the Republic name, has become the second largest non-hazardous solid waste management company in the United States. [3]