Northern Metal Recycling - Bismarck

Northern Metal Recycling is an industry leader, committed to the highest level of environmental responsibility, best-practices plant operations and quality customer service.It is our goal to make metal recycling as efficient as possible - by building upon our global capabilities, economies of scale and technical specialization.We handle over 100 grades of ferrous and nonferrous metals and serve the Upper Midwest through our three-state network of recycling facilities.

Buying scrap from Northern Metals

Northern Metal handles over 100 grades of ferrous and non-ferrous scrap metal. Our extensive transportation network and barging facilites gives us direct access to domestic and global markets.

Recycler turns trash into cash

• 'A cherry picker swings across the skyline, its extended claw snatching up chunks of scrap metal from huge piles.

• 'We started with two people. Now we’ve got seven, and we’re looking for two more,' said Blakeman. 'So we’re growing.'

• Northern Metal Recycling, headquartered in Minneapolis, is a subsidiary of European Metal Recycling, a privately owned global metal recycling company that sells 10 million tons of recycled commodities per year, employing 3,500 people in 150 countries, according to its website.

• NMR has 12 locations in Minnesota, two in Wisconsin and three in North Dakota, including Milnor and Bismarck.

• 'As time went on we grew, and they decided to open a new facility,' Blakeman said.

• The company found rental space across from the West Fargo stockyards.

• “We decided to see if it would grow into something, and it did,” Blakeman said.

• The company recycles anything metal.

• 'We like to say don’t throw it in the trash, turn it into cash,' Blakeman said.

• NMR accepts everything from household steel and industrial scrap to car bodies, which are shipped to a company shredder in the Twin Cities, he said.

• It’s business area includes Fargo-Moorhead and towns within a 60-mile radius, he said.

• Northern Metal Recycling is open Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

• 'We’re just tickled to death to be here in West Fargo,' Blakeman said.