Team Lowenstein Scrap Metal Services

Lowenstein Scrap Metal has been reducing industry's carbon footprint since long before the phrase was first coined. The company has emerged as a leader in the scrap metal recycling industry. And, like all good stories, the best place to start is at the beginning. To know us is to know our founder, Ernie Lowenstein. He is a testament to the mettle (excuse the pun) required to take an idea and grow it into a successful, environmentally sound business.

In 1940 Ernie emigrated from Germany to America, where he found work in a scrap metal yard. For four years he learned the business from the ground up. It was then that his entrepreneurial spirit kicked in and he realized this is what he wanted to do; to create and build a scrap metal company that was better, cleaner, quicker and more efficient at removing salvageable metal by-products.

The year was 1944. It was the year Lowenstein Scrap Metal Services began its humble beginnings. Working off a handshake with customers and his station wagon as transport, Ernie knew he was on the right track. His reputation for customer care and integrity soon had him providing scrap metal removal services to companies and residences all over Orange County and Los Angeles. It was time to grow again.