Alpha Metals

Alpha Metals is the fastest growing full service non-ferrous scrap metal recycler in Chicago. Our mission is to redefine the Scrap Metal Industry to meet today’s challenges and tomorrow’s opportunities by being the industry leader in safety and environmental compliance, by building lasting customer relationships, by fostering professional growth for our employees, and by sharing our success with the community.The Company was founded in 2004, by Edie Comminos under-capitalized. but with years of industry experience, sheer determination and will , Alpha Metals was built to serve there customers needs with each and every pick-up.  Edie is the president working along side her son Nick Comminos the fourth consecutive generation in the scrap industry.  Alpha Metals provides unparalleled customer service.  Point-of- contact from service to pricing is ONE phone call away.We purchase and recycle all types of non-ferrous scrap metal including Aluminum, Brass, Copper, Stainless Steel, Electronic Scrap, High Temperature Alloys, Steel, and  Precious Metals (Gold, Silver Platininum, Palladium, etc).All of our operations utilize environmentally sound practices and meet the highest standards in quality control, environmental health and safety management.Alpha Metals is proud to be a WBE Certified, Woman-Owned and Operated Business, fulfilling both prime and subcontractors Supplier Diversity requirements.Alpha Metals processes all types of  of non-ferrous and ferrous metals. We specialize in industrial services, metal distributors, plant clean-ups and contract-demolition work.  We operate our own fleet of trucks, roll-off’s and luger boxes.  We use market index pricing to assure the most competitive pricing coupled with unparalleled customer service and payment terms.  We are the industry standard and more. Customers are assured in manufacturing.Accepting but not limited to the following material in clips, solids, chips, turnings, stampings, skeletons, wire and/or sheet;Aluminum,Brass,Bronze,Copper,Computer Scrap,Lead,Nickel Alloys,Stainless Steel,Steel,Tin.Recycling electronics is a responsible and sound business.   Post consumer electronics are entering the wastestream at unprecedented quantities.  Developing new markets and safe conscientious ways to process and sort consumer electronics is our goal.  It is the new age of recycling and Alpha Metals welcomes the opportunity to serve businesses and consumers as a single source recycler.Computer scrap contains,  steel, gold, silver and other precious metal content that is mapped into these boards, along with copper sheeting that is bonded with green fiber.We dismantle computers and other consumer electronics on a daily basis.  All scrap received at Alpha will always be destroyed by bailing, shredding, or sheared.   All hard drives are destroyed and you have our guarantee that absolutely no parts will be sold for re-use or refurbishing.   A certificate of destruction is issued with each pick-up or drop-off.Paper and Plastic is a good way to add on some value to your pick-ups.  Whats good about most products it they are recyclable. Since you probably get charged to dispose your garbage anyway, it would be worth while to save any type of paper or plastic products and separate them accordingly.

Alpha Metals a Chicago, Illinois based company will buy, pick up and recycle all sorts of scrap metal, plastic, electronic and computer scrap. We run our own fleet of trucks that are able to service customers with a van, gondola, flat bed, low boy and box trucks for smaller pick-ups.  Here are a couple links that will help you find out more information about what we accept/buy and recycle:

• Non Ferrous Metals
• Ferrous Metals
• Electronic and Computer Scrap 
• Plastic Scrap Recycling
• Paper and Corrugated Services

If you do not see something we do not have listed, please give us a call or an email and give us a brief description of what type of material you have. Or find the drop down menu above and see what catches your eye and see what we can help you/or your company recycle today.

Alpha Metals Corporation offers never ending services. Being a family owned company, we know what matters and can offer what ever is needed to get the job done.

Current services and not limited to:

• Heavy Machinery Removal
• Rolloff and lugger services
• Industrial Services
• Demolition and Contractor assistance
• Scrap clean-up assistance

We currently hold all proper certifications and can provide documentation of destruction on any project.

We feature a huge selection of unique and beautiful items. To increase awareness of recycling, Alpha Metals encourages local artists to explore the many creative uses of metallic materials in art and architecture.  We have had couples that were looking to make a new frame for their house to artists that made sculptures for the Showtime series “Shameless.”  The sky is the limit.We carry unique forms and shapes of many different of the following metals:

• Aluminum – Extrusions, 6061, 6063, 3003, Clips, Solids, etc.
• Brass – Rod Brass, Bronze, Yellow Brass, 70/30, EDM wire, Borings, etc.
• Computer Scrap – boards and different parts from a computer
• Copper – Bare Bright, Cable, Solids, 90/10,  etc.
• Lead – Soft, ingot
• Nickel Alloys
• Stainless Steel – 304, 316, 400 series, restaurant breakage, etc.
• Steel – Scrap, vintage pieces
• Tin Plated
• Zinc

We provide and service customers with luggers, roll-offs, gondolas for all different types of ferrous materials.

• Bundles
• Busheling
• Cast Iron
• Clips
• Foundry Steel
• Forgings
• Heavy Melt
• HMS
• Machine and Forklift Scrap Removal
• Maintenance Scrap
• Sheet Metal
• Steel Dies
• Steel Coils
• Tool Steel
• Turnings
• Wire

Alpha Metals buys all sorts of different non-ferrous materials such as stampings, punchings, clips, solids, turnings/borings, wire form and/or bars.We are able to provide custom sized totes and bins to fit any machine set-up. Along with skids, gaylords and drums.

Illinois has passed the Public Act 97-0287 – Electronic Products Recycling & Reuse Act that took effect 2012.  Meaning absolutely no electronics should be left outside for the trash because of the harm that it can cause to the world. Alpha Metals Corp has found the safest way to recycle these electronic products without hurting the environment and can provide all certifications that all e-scrap material was properly discarded.

Electronic Scrap we accept:

• AC Adapter with or without Cords
• Ballasts (No PCB’s)
• Digital Cable Boxes with or without Hard Drives
• CDROM and Floppy Drives
• Cell Phones
• Computers – Incomplete or Complete
• Consumer Electronics
• Copper Degaussing Wire
• Docking Stations
• Electric Motors
• Fans
• Hard Drives
• House/Office Phones
• Keyboards, Mice
• Laptops – Incomplete or Complete
• Laptop Parts – Motherboards, Hard Drives
• Lithium Ion Laptop, Cell Phone Batteries
• Main Frames
• Monitors – LCD and CRT
• Motherboards
• PCI Cards – Video, Sound, Network Cards
• Power Boards
• Memory RAM – DDR, SDRAM, etc.
• Mixed Computer Wire
• Modems
• NiCd Batteries
• NiMH Batteries
• Power Supplies
• Printers
• Processors – CPU’s
• Copiers
• Servers – Incomplete and Complete
• Network Switches and Routers
• Toner and Ink Cartridges
• Transformers
• Uninterrupted Power Supply
• Yokes

• Aluminum – Extrusions, 6061, 6063, 3003, Litho plates, Clips, Solids, etc.
• Brass – Rod Brass, Bronze, Yellow Brass, 70/30, EDM wire, Eco Turnings, etc.
• Copper – Bare Bright, Cable, Solids, etc.
• Lead
• Nickel Alloys
• Stainless Steel – 304, 316, 400 series, restaurant breakage, etc.
• Tin Plated
• Zinc

Plastics that we currently recycle:

• Polyethylene terephthalate (PET)
• High-density polyethylene (HDPE)
• Polyvinyl chloride (PVC)
• Low-density polyethylene (LDPE)
• Polypropylene (PP)
• Polystyrene (PS)
• Polycarbonate
• ABS

Paper scrap we currently accept:

• Corrugated
• Laminate paper
• Magazine paper
• Office paper
• Post consumer corrugated

All material must be free of contaminates such as oil, coolant and other harmful chemicals.