PSI Welcomes Aronson Recycling as Newest Member When Aronson Recycling Co.—a division of Steven B. Aronson Co. Inc.—began operating in 1916, it handled primitive scrap materials such as rags and hides. Throughout its 103-year history, however, the company expanded into ferrous and nonferrous metals, precious metals, foam pad, and various grades of recovered fiber, including OCC, ONP, […]

Utah Metal Works Becomes New PSI Member   Utah Metal Works has a long history as a member company of ISRI and one of its predecessor associations, NARI. Although the 64-year-old, family-owned scrap company specializes in recycling nonferrous metal scrap, it also handles some OCC at its Salt Lake City headquarters operation and larger quantities of OCC […]

Q & A Interview with JOHNNY NEWSOME Q: What was it about the industry that prompted you to build a career in it? A: One of my grandfathers, my father, and two uncles worked for Sonoco, and I saw from their example that I could make a good living there. So I decided at a fairly […]

Steinert US (Walton, Ky.) is the North American subsidiary of Steinert GmbH (Koln, Germany), a global leader in consulting, manufacturing, installing, and servicing sensor-sorting and traditional magnetic separation technology. The company serves a variety of industrial applications, including metal recycling, residential/MSW recycling, mining, and ash slag. For metal recycling operations, Steinert offers sorting and separation […]

Eagle Trans Shipping & Logistics is an international freight-forwarding company based in London, with a U.S. office in Hoboken, N.J. The company, founded in 1984 as a small customs-clearance business, now provides global logistics services from 23 offices located in 11 countries on five continents—and counting, the firm says. In terms of services, Eagle offers single-mode […]

Q & A Interview with STUART LURIE Q: When and how did you enter the recycling industry? A: I graduated college in 1977 and first sold giftware in upstate New York. Then I went on to sell a variety of products for a national marketing company, living in Columbus, Ohio. At the same time, my father […]