Sol Alman Company

Sol Alman Company has been providing recycling service to the Little Rock area for over 100 years. We provide industrial container and trailer service, on site torching service, walk-in scrap metal purchases of most ferrous and non-ferrous metals, and sterilized wiping cloths sales. Please contact us to receive competitive pricing on all your scrap metal needs.

History

Sol Alman Company originated in 1905 when Charles Alman, a Russian immigrant, founded the business as the Charles Alman Waste Materials Company in Little Rock, Arkansas.Charles’ son, Sol, started working at the business as a boy after school hours, Saturday, and full time during summers. As a young adult, Sol’s career as a professional jazz musician was interrupted in 1939 when he began focusing his attention toward helping his ailing father operate the business. Sol legally acquired the business in August 1942 and the company name was changed, at the request of Charles, to Sol Alman Company.As an astute, aggressive, and hard-working businessman, Sol expanded the business incorporating the latest processing technology and equipment. During the past 30 years, Sol Alman Company has been operating under the leadership of Sol’s two sons Charles and Larry Alman.As a third generation family-owned and operated business our philosophy has stayed the same: Prompt and reliable service, competitive prices, and prompt payments.

Our processing facility located at 1300 east ninth street Little Rock, Arkansas transforms obsolete materials from consumers, businesses, and manufacturers into useful new materials that are essential to the manufacturing of new products.We recycle non-ferrous metals including copper, aluminum, brass, stainless steel, zinc, aluminum cans, and lead as well as ferrous metals including iron and steel.Scrap material is processed using large shears, balers, grapple/magnet hydraulic cranes, forklifts, and a fleet of trucks. Processed material is shipped to mills and foundries around the world via rail, truck, barge, and overseas containers. We tackle processing as large as railroad and interstate bridges down to aluminum cans.

Equipment and Services

Container Services

Sol Alman Company offers a variety of 12 to 20 yards bins, boxes, forklift hoppers, self-dumping hoppers, and 45’ open top semi-trailers to fit almost any on site application. We have a large fleet of tractor trailer and load lugger trucks to service your needs quickly.

Mobile crane service

We have mobile log loaders and magnet cranes to load loose material on site.

Quick Service

We pride ourselves on 24 hour turnaround on containers. We know work stoppage because a container is full cost you money and quick service keeps your job running smoothly.

Competitive Prices

We buy all types of ferrous and non-ferrous scrap in any quantities small or large from walk-in customers to multi-ton industrial accounts. We continuously monitor market conditions to keep our prices up to date and competitive. We also have a very flexible and swift payout system. We can pay within minutes of unloading, monthly, or end of job to meet whatever your needs may be.

Green Industry

The scrap metal business is the nation’s oldest recycling industry. Each year, millions of tons of scrap are recycled into new metal products.Sol Alman Company is dedicated to responsible and environmentally friendly safe procedures and practices. The company’s commitment to maintaining an environmentally sound workplace is demonstrated by our adoption of industry-developed comprehensive environmental guidelines.

Our environmental stewardship practices address issues including:

• Storm water runoff
• Pollution prevention
• Air pollution mitigation
• Hazardous material contamination controls

There are certain dangerous items we cannot accept:

• Sealed containers or tanks of any kind (propane, freon, fire extinguishers ……) must be cut in half.
• Any type of container that contained flammable liquids( gas tanks, aerosol cans, paint thinner buckets)
• No alkaline, ni-cad, lithium, or nickel-metal hydride batteries
• Sodium switches
• Any scrap with unknown chemical substance or residue
• Paint cans: full or empty
• Asbestos or any scrap that is suspected of containing asbestos
• Oil, hydraulic fluid, or unknown liquids
• Capacitors
• Ballasts
• Oil Filters
• CRT tubes
• Fluorescent light fixtures containing ballasts and or bulbs
• No ordinance or ordinance related materials
• Mercury switches
• Any radioactive material

We also do not accept these items due to processing issues

• Appliances
• Automobiles
• Fence wire
• Steel cable (unless it is cut into 3 foot lengths)
• Tires
• Concrete, Dirt, Rocks ….
• Trash, paper, wood rags, foam, cardboard, etc.