Gerdau - Buffalo

Gerdau Buffalo is the city's premier metal recycler. We offer competitive pricing for steel, aluminum, copper, stainless, and objects made of or containing metal. If it's metal, we buy it.Gerdau recycles the metals that we buy into new structural steel and other ferrous and non-ferrous products, supporting industry and the environment.The yard in Buffalo provides full scrap services for businesses. Contact us for more information about how we can help your company.​

​​​Gerdau Minot is the city's premier metal recycler. We offer competitive pricing for steel, aluminum, copper, stainless, and objects made of or containing metal. If it's metal, we buy it.Gerdau recycles the metals that we buy into new structural steel and other ferrous and non-ferrous products, supporting industry and the environment.

The yard in Minot provides full scrap services for businesses. Contact us for more information about how we can help your company.​Our history dates back to 1901, when we started as a nail factory in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Today, our products are present in the daily lives of millions of people. Annually, millions of tons of scrap are recycled and turned into quality steel, which serves the construction, industrial, agricultural and automotive sectors.

We believe our steel has the strength of transformation, and since the beginning of our history, we have aimed to transform lives. Steel turns projects into reality, developing communities and making them better places to live. We are the leading producer of long steel in the Americas, and one of the largest suppliers of special long steel in the world. Additionally, we are the largest supplier to the automotive industry worldwide. In Brazil, we also produce flat steel and iron ore, which expands our product mix and improves the competitiveness of our operations.

​M​ISSION
To create value for our customers, shareholders, employees ​and communities by operating as a sustainable steel business.

VISION
To be a global organization and a benchmark in any business we conduct

Values

• Be the CUSTOMER’s choice
• SAFETY above all
• Respected, engaged and fulfilled EMPLOYEES
• Pursuing EXCELLENCE with SIMPLICITY
• Focus on RESULTS
• INTEGRITY with all stakeholders
• Economic, social and environmental SUSTAINABILITY​​

Metal Recycling

Gerdau Metals Recycling is responsible for taking items, like old home appliances, vehicle parts, industrial by-products and steel cans, that have been discarded from society and transforming them for steel-making.Currently, Gerdau's long steel operations in North America operate more than 30 recycling facilities that collect, sort, and process millions of tons of scrap annually for our steel-making operations. Gerdau's long (GLN) and special steel (GSN) divisions in North America currently rank as the second largest recycler of ferrous scrap in North America. Click here to find the nearest scrap receiving location.

Gerdau's recycling activities reflect our core value of Community and Environmental Awareness. Our recycling efforts help to eliminate potential disposal hazards and offer many unique benefits, including the prevention of contamination from used automotive oil filters, the elimination of confiscated firearms from local police authorities, and the recycling of used automotive tires and metal residue from community garbage incinerator operations.