LA Canada West

La Canada West is a California Certified Recycling Corporation. We do liquidations and plant closures for the government, aerospace industry, U.S. Military, private corporations, and the banking community. We specialize in downsizing and 'rightsizing'. La Canada West can eliminate costly, unnecessary storage space for your customers by helping them dispose of their unwanted (including outdated and obsolete) assets. La Canada West provides a full circle of service to our customers -- certified e-waste handlers, recyclers, and buyers. We have thoroughly trained personnel and all the right equipment to handle any size project. Our trucking personnel are licensed and fully insured.La Canada West, Inc. is the parent company of the AWARD WINNINGWest Side Recycling Company, which has operated in Southern California since 1946. The West Side Recycling buy-back facility, located in Glendale, is used as a test site by the State of California for recycling programs. West Side Recycling specializes in developing programs for 'Commercial Account' customers that suit their individual need for disposing of their scrap in the simplest, most profitable manner. The combined services offered by these two companies have produced long-term relationships with the Cities of Los Angeles, Glendale, Burbank, and Pasadena and with business entities such as Coca Cola, Disney Studios, Lockheed Martin, ITT, Litton, NASA, USC, Allied Signal, MGA Universal, Aerojet, FAA, The Treasury Department, Bank of America, Citicorp, and the U.S. Marshall.During the past year, La Canada West expanded its recycling efforts to include PCB (printed circuit board) dismantling and component recovery programs. WE solicit out pick-up services, computers, office equipment, and electronic equipment, to the corporate sector as well as individual consumer households.Meyer 'Mike' Swartzman got out of the service after WWII and started running and operating a salvage yard on the west side of Glendale called, West Side Junk & Salvage. The name was changed in 1978 to West Side Metal & Salvage, and the 'junk' part of the name was removed. He purchased aerospace scrap, military surplus, and metals from the public. In 1975 while going to college, Mark Ringelberg, started working as a laborer. On December 6th, 1980 at 4:35pm, Mike sold the company to Mark and Allyn Ringelberg and the company name was changed once more to West Side Metal Recycling. Recycling became the buzzword of the 80's. Through the 80's, West Side Metal Recycling was known as a plant closure specialist, assisting in 'rightsizing' of aerospace companies such as, McDonnell Douglas (Boeing), Lockheed Martin, ITT, Northrop Grumman, Allied Signal, and Lorral Leiberscope. West Side Metal Recycling was incorporated under the name La Canada West, Inc. in 1991. Now, La Canada West, Inc. handles many companies from the banking and movie industries, as well as universities, government and Fortune 500 companies.Besides being a certified recycler, e-waste collector, and full service metal company, we have the man power and logistics experience to handle any size job.