From the early days in 1965 to the present, Eastern Alloys has developed and implemented a series of programs, or tools, to support the marketplace. The business was founded upon the notion that customer success would provide the energy and impetus to drive the company's growth. By any measure that business model has succeeded. Today, Eastern Alloys operates two discrete manufacturing and recycling facilities: the flagship plant in Maybrook, NY, and Eastern Alloys of Kentucky, LLC, in Henderson, KY. Dedicated in April 2000, the Kentucky plant is the newest, most technologically advanced zinc alloy complex ever constructed.

Today, businesses in all industries are faced with making hard decisions that will impact future performance, in some case survivability. Everything is in play, everything. Some part of the solution is simple, at least from a philosophical perspective. Different results are the reciprocal of different actions, or inputs. To continue the same practices only assures the same results. So then, success is about making choices.

De Groot Metals is a family business. The enterprise was started in Rotterdam by Mr J.C. de Groot in 1946 with the trade in tatters and metals. After several years the core activities were expanded to include trade in scrap metal and the scrapping of ships. A young Mr Dick de Groot joined his father in 1963. After he took over the company in 1966 he focussed exclusively on the non-ferrous metals trade.

The organisation grew and developed into an international recycling business. Son and grandson, Mr Edwin de Groot, joined the family business in 1988. Knowledge was shared, the yard was expanded and a larger international network came into being. Mr Edwin de Groot learned the trade from the experts by working at the yard himself and by travelling and extending the existing network. Nothing is of greater value in the metal and recycling sector than product knowledge and knowledge of the local economy.

Mr T.G.S. Tom Lambrechts joined the company as co-owner in 2005 and the collaboration that followed ensured an even better service to the international market. His knowledge and experience were considered a valuable addition to the De Groot Metals' network. Together with a close-knit team, we have the pleasure and experience of working at a national & international level.