West End Hide, Fur & Metal Co. Inc.

Mission statement

Our mission at West End is to provide prompt, friendly, and faithful service in every aspect of the recycling industry. Our valued customers are the lifeblood of our existence. We appreciate your patronage in the past, present, and the future.

Founded in 1959 by partners Raymond Oster, Reinhold Enzminger, and Archie Oster; West End Hide Fur & Metal Co was established in Jamestown upon the closing of a satellite scrap yard of Fargo Iron & Metal Co. All three partners were traveling buyers of metals, hides, and fur for Fargo Iron & Metal Co. In the early 1960's, the business was relocated to its current 13-acre location in northwest Jamestown.

West End's main focus in the earlier years was purchasing and marketing beef hides, deerskins, fur, and wool with scrap metals being secondary in a business sense. Today, second generation son's of Raymond Oster, Mike and Jeff, have incorporated the family business into a much larger scale of operation thru quality employees and major capital investments in recycling equipment. Excavators with shear and magnet attachments, balers, carlogger balers, and roll off container services have been acquired to enhance all operations.

West End is the last of the true family -owned hide, fur and metal company left in North Dakota. West End services most of North Dakota's cattle slaughtering plants picking up beef hides, deerskins and offal.

West End's main focus is the ferrous and non-ferrous portions of the business. Also, West End is Jamestown's and the surrounding area's leader of new steel distribution. A complete inventory of new steel, stainless steel, and aluminum products are on hand at all times.

Services

Scrap metal Recycling

New steel division : includes Square Tubing, Rectangular Tubing, Cold Rolled, Stress Proof Rds.,Hot Rolled Sheets,Expanded Metal, Flats, Angles,Channels,Beams,Rebar

Hide division : West End offers services to Locker Plants and Slaughter Houses through established routes.(Beef Hides, Deer Hides, Offal, Kitchen Grease)