Portland Iron & Metal will have been in the metal recycling business for 36 years on October 10, 2017, by the grace of God!  Portland Iron and Metal Company was founded in 1967 by Gordon Piercefield and his brother, Jerry Piercefield.  Gordon soon became sole owner and operated in the scrap business while he was building pole barns and doing light excavating.  It was purchased by his son-in-law William(Bill) E. Fox, Jr and his son, John Piercefield on Oct 10, 1981 and incorporated as Portland Iron and Metal, Inc.  Since that humble beginning, Portland Iron has grown into a full service recycling business complete with rolloff container service, shredders, shears and baling equipment.  In 1982, we built our first aluminum smelter and operated in a garage, producing 30# ingots.   By the end of 1984, we completed our second aluminum smelter with 8000# hold chamber capacity producing 1100# blocks of aluminum called ‘sows’.  Since then, we melted over 53 million pounds until our melting operation was replaced in 2000 with our first shredder.  Since then, we have specialized in shredding aluminum scrap with iron and other contaminants.  We produce some of the highest quality foundry, smelter and mill grade shredded aluminum products.  Currently, we operate three shredders that are complemented with a variety of downstream separation equipment.   Our latest addition in May of 2015 was a Hammel 950DK, which is a portable, remote controlled, diesel powered pre-shredder capable of shredding over 80 NT per hour of car bodies.  We design, build and maintain most of our processing and support equipment, including our shredders.  We also have a second generation developing in our business as well.  Jamie and Mark Fox are sons of Bill and Lori Fox and have been working with PIM for may years.  Jamie is our GM and Mark is our Asst. Manager.  We are blessed to be in the scrap business, serving the great people of Sebewa Township, Ionia County and the State of Michigan with personal  integrity and quality products.