American Iron & Metal

American Iron & Metal's roots in the scrap metal business date back to the 1960s when Jim Warren began helping his family run a small scrap yard in Southern Colorado. Then in 1981, Jim and his wife, Bernadette, expanded in Southern Colorado with the founding of American Iron & Metal in Pueblo, CO. In the late 1990s, American Iron & Metal installed its first automobile shredder in Pueblo, followed by another shredder installation in Colorado Springs in 2006, and most recently, a third large shredding plant installed at the Company's new facility in Pueblo with plans of installing a sister plant in New Mexico in the near future.

With the help of valued suppliers, customers, and employees, Jim, Bernadette, and their four children have expanded their third generation scrap business to five locations throughout Colorado and New Mexico and into a regional leader in the scrap metal recycling industry. Accordingly, American Iron & Metal and the Warren family are committed to excellence in serving their suppliers, customers, employees, and the environment. American Iron strives to make selling and recycling scrap metal as fast, easy, and profitable as possible for its suppliers. The Company is equally focused on providing quality products and timely delivery to its customers. Most importantly, American Iron & Metal is committed to recycling safely and soundly for its employees and the environment.

SERVICES

American Iron & Metal buys, services, processes, and supplies all types of ferrous and nonferrous scrap metal.  This creates value for the people and businesses that we buy scrap metal from, the manufacturers that we supply raw materials to, and the environment.

American Iron & Metal provides customized service plans to meet the needs of industrial and commercial scrap metal producers in our region.  We offer free containers, free pickup service, and we pay a fair market price for the scrap metal that we pickup.  With modern equipment and professional personnel, our goal is to provide unmatched pricing, service, and convenience in metal recycling.  Our industrial scrap metal services feature:

• Free, no obligation, onsite consultation
• Free container service
• Prompt service response times
• Fair market scrap prices
• State certified scale weights
• Scheduled scrap payments
• Complete electronic records with digital photos of all loads
• Contracts available upon request

SCRAP METAL PROCESSING

American Iron & Metal processes all types of scrap metal and junk cars to create commodities, resources, and raw materials for new production. Our processing operations center on auto and metal shredding through which we process junk cars, appliances, and other mixed metals into clean metals of uniform size, density, and chemistry. Modern shredding technology provides maximum efficiency, recovery, and reduction of solid waste in processing scrap metal. We also utilize techniques such as sorting, cutting, baling, and breaking to process scrap metal such as heavy steel, cast iron, and nonferrous metals.

ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES

American Iron & Metal’s modern recycling operations emphasize environmental sustainability as we recycle to:

• Reduce solid waste going to landfills
• Conserve energy and resources
• Reduce greenhouse gas emissions
• Help clean up cities, towns, and countrysides
• Sustainably support and supply modern manufacturing
• Create economic value by purchasing what most people would otherwise throw away

 PROHIBITED ITEMS

• Asbestos
• Ballasts containing PCBs
• Batteries (unless sold separately)
• Capacitors
• CFCs
• Chemicals
• Circuit boards (unless sold separately)
• Compressed/liquefied gases
• Computer monitors
• Excessive nonmetallic materials
• Explosive materials
• Flammable materials
• Fuels
• Hazardous/toxic materialsLead (unless sold separately)
• Mercury
• Oils
• PCBs
• Radioactive materials
• Refrigerants
• Sealed tanks
• Sealed units
• Televisions
• Transformers (oil filled)