Phone Number

(314) 872-2400

Community Centric

A leader in metal recycling for 125 years!

We provide affordable recycling solutions for all metals.
Environmentally Friendly

Recycling Just Makes Sense

We are certified to the internationally-recognized ISO 14001:2015 standard.
Community Involvement

Our facilities actively support the communities they serve.

Believe in making the world a better place? Recycle!

About Us

Concerted Efforts To Build Better.

Our sound financial base has permitted timely expansion and investment in efficient equipment, which allows us to maintain absolute dependability for our customers. In line with our history of innovation, today Alter utilizes a web-based order tracking system to ensure timely and accurate product delivery. This system gives our suppliers and customers complete visibility to all transactions with us, including the corresponding detail and up to the minute status.

Alter has a reputation for innovation in the metal recycling industry. Our processing facilities are state-of-the-art. We're one of the largest recyclers of ferrous and non-ferrous metals in the country serving industrial clients and salvage operations of every kind. Alter continues to develop new and expanded services and capabilities to meet the changing needs of its clients and the marketplace.


Priorities

Family Owned &
Community-Centric

Alter Trading has a long legacy of charitable giving and volunteerism in the communities where we operate. Our generosity and community service lives on through the passion and commitment of our employees who support and participate in neighborhood cleanups, food drives, tree plantings and community building events.

Environmentally
Friendly

Alter Trading is always making responsible investments in new technology to enhance the recovery of ferrous and non-ferrous metals and to recycle other valuable materials while meeting customer quality needs, minimizing environmental impacts and reducing our environmental footprint. As we look to the future, sustainability and environmental compliance will remain central to our business success, providing additional opportunities to maximize value from metal and other recyclables. Alter invests in advanced separation and extraction technologies which capture more non-ferrous metals from the materials we process, reducing the waste we send to landfills while enhancing the quality of the products we deliver to our customers.

Good for
Business

Alter Trading is constantly adapting its services with enthusiasm to meet and exceed the needs of its customer's goals and expectations. We never lose sight of high efficiency and continuous improvements necessary to gain sustainable competitive advantages in today's result-oriented environment.

We are one of the scrap industry's oldest and most technically advanced companies. Our state-of-the-art approach to buying, processing and recycling benefits you in two ways. It removes a heavily regulated recycling problem and keeps you in compliance along with providing a maximum return for your recyclables.

Inspired by
Nature

Alter Trading has implemented comprehensive measures to address metal theft and radiation detection, including enforcement of strict metal acceptance policies at all of our facilities. We have invested in significant IT infrastructure and built strong relationships with our local communities and law enforcement in order to prevent and report metal theft.

Locations

Where We Are

Recycling Facts

Recycling Numbers

1M+ Cans / Day

Recycled aluminum is a valuable commodity. Moreover, aluminum can be recycled indefinitely -- with no limit on the number of times the metal can be reused.

2M+ Cars / Week

Recycled vehicles provide enough steel to produce almost 13 million new vehicles every year and can save money, time, and precious resources.

3M+ lbs Copper / Day

The recycling of copper requires less energy than primary production and reduces CO2 emissions.

5M+ tons Metal / Year

The recycling of metals enables us to preserve natural resources while requiring less energy to process than the manufacture of new products using virgin raw materials.

Services

What We Do?

Why Choose Us

Community Involvement

For more than 125 years Alter has provided exemplary metals recycling services to the communities we serve. While our scale and capabilities have expanded considerably over that period of time, our fundamental culture and core values have never changed. Our success is built on a culture of caring for our employees and their families.

Testimonials

What People are Saying

We are a close community of more than 1,400 employees who challenge one another to get better every day. We are equally comfortable reaching out for help or advice, or lending a hand to assure mutual success. We value open communication.

Customers & Suppliers

Who Uses Us?

News

Latest Company News

23rd March 2023

ISRI to Honor Industry Icon Robert Goldstein

I knew that you would all want to see the link below. Congratulations to our Chairman, Rob Goldstein, on this very well-deserved honor! This is a wonderful recognition of Rob, the Family, and our entire organization.

https://www.isri.org/news-publications/news-details/2023/03/17/isri-to-honor-industry-icon-robert-goldstein-with-prestigious-lifetime-achievement-award

Thank you
Jack Grundfest - President

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