Ben Weitsman of Jamestown

Today, Upstate Shredding – Ben Weitsman generate sales of approximately $750 million dollars per year. With nearly 400 employees, Upstate is headquartered on a 17-acre environmentally certified facility in Owego, and operates yards in Owego (2 locations), Binghamton, Brant, Ithaca (2 locations), Syracuse,  Scranton, Rochester, Jamestown, Brant, Watertown,Hornell, Allegany and Albany, NY (port facility and retail scrap yard), and New Castle, PA.

As the East Coast’s largest privately owned scrap metal processor and recycling center, and one of the largest operations of its type in the United States, Upstate – Ben Weitsman will process approximately 1 million tons of ferrous and 250 million pounds of nonferrous in 2016. Upstate’s metal shredding and separation operation handles all types of ferrous and non-ferrous scrap metals: automobiles, trucks, appliances, machines and scrap generated from industrial production.

Upstate’s leading-edge process ensures the production of clean, bulk, scrap metal commodities that are sold to foundries, mills and manufacturers domestically and around the world where they are reprocessed to make new products.

Upstate Shredding recently installed one of the most advanced nonferrous separation systems in the world. In an industry leading effort to promote worker safety and protect the environment, most Upstate processing operations are performed indoors. Upstate Shredding continually works with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and the U.S EPA to enhance environmental safety to meet or exceed standards.

Upstate can reduce a whole vehicle in seconds to component streams of ferrous and nonferrous metals, glass, plastics and fabrics.   Processing approximately 8,300 tons of ferrous scrap per month, and 3.8 million pounds of non-ferrous per week, the materials are recycled for useful purposes, kept out of landfills and help improve the environment.