GSI Recycling is committed to being a high quality provider of scrap metal, striving to constantly exceed customer expectations. We seek to achieve this goal by continually improving our customer satisfaction, supplier relationships and business management system.

By focusing on our quality, innovation, teamwork and integrity, we have satisfied our customers, employees, suppliers and the communities in which we live, by giving them the right to expect more from GSI. Achieving ISO certification is just one more indication of our dedication to this goal.

ISO 9001 is a standard for “quality management”. This means that the organization has implemented a quality management system of policies and procedures to fulfill its customer’s quality requirements and applicable regulatory requirements, while aiming to enhance customer satisfaction, and achieve continual improvement of the organization’s products quality performance.

ISO 14001 is a standard for “environmental management”. This designation indicates an organization meets certain requirements that focus on minimizing the organization’s aspects and related impacts on the environment and achieves continual improvement of its environmental performance.

How standards help consumers

In today’s increasingly global manufacturing and trading environment, consumers expect that the services and products that they purchase will not only be consistent in quality, durability and ease of use, but also safe and ecologically friendly. In addressing these areas of major concern to consumers, ISO standards help by representing a consensus on the best knowledge and experience available worldwide. The voluntary rules and guidelines they contain help to ensure:

• safer, healthier, more environmentally sound products
• improved quality and reliability
• better operational compatibility between products
• greater consistency in the delivery of services
• easier access to and greater choice in goods and services
• better product information
• suitable products for vulnerable populations
• lower costs and greater competition, hence lower prices for consumers.

The building blocks of quality at GSI are consistency, documentation and employee training. Our quality policy is a commitment to continually improve our product processes and systems to meet and/or exceed the needs of our customers and to deliver defect free products on time, every time. We also understand that responsible business is good business. That’s why when it comes to the environment, you can rest assured that GSI will always work closely with governmental agencies on meeting and exceeding established guidelines for the scrap industry, which in turn helps protect our suppliers and customers.

On Goulding Lane – that is where today’s family-owned GSI, Inc. can trace its long and prosperous heritage. More than 60 years ago, James Jones started a small scrap business in Pensacola, Fla. with only a pick-up truck and some land. “He would pick up scrap materials from his customers and take them to the lay-down yard,” recalls Russ Crosby, President of GSI, Inc and great-nephew of James Jones.

It wasn’t long before the yard was open for peddlers to drop off their recyclable materials in addition to the route James carved out. Throughout the next four decades, three generations of family leadership has grown the business and instilled a strong work ethic and deep respect for the customer and employees. These traits are exhibited by today’s fourth-generation leadership of Russ Crosby and Rick Rawls and the fifth generation of Dennis and Eddie Crosby @ GSI and Matt Crosby and Weston Rawls @ Scrap Inc, along with Zac Winans @ Milton Iron & Metals

“You must stay humble and hungry,” advises Russ a motto he uses often. scrap-yard

This guiding principle to fight complacency has helped the company achieve phenomenal growth over the last two decades. The original Goulding Scrap Material operation has grown into three separate scrap and recycling facilities under the current leadership.

Goulding now operates as GSI, Inc. on an 11-acre site in western Pensacola with access to the Alabama Gulf Coast Railroad line and a barge site off of Pensacola Bay. A second facility – Milton Metal and Iron – is located just to the northeast of GSI in Milton to service the eastern Pensacola market. Both locations accept ferrous and non-ferrous material from broad customer base ranging from walk-ins to industrial customers from as far away as 200 miles. These locations in turn feed the shredding operation at Scrap, Inc.

Year after year GSI has grown and succeeded in the scrap business. The company’s ability to recognize market changes and adapt its practices, equipment selection and services provided to meet the needs of the evolving scrap market has fueled the company’s success.