Federal Autocat Recycling
502 York St , Elizabeth, New Jersey, United States

Federal Autocat Recycling is a cutting edge catalytic converter recycling company driven by personnel with more than 80 years combined experience in catalytic converter PGM recycling. More and more yards and collectors partner with us because we offer incredibly fast cash turnaround payouts for spent catalytic converters. 

More cash for your scrap catalytic converters

• Better profits for your scrap catalytic converters.
• Quick and easy pick-up options available.
• Professional, dependable and experienced staff.
• Responsive and easy to work with.
• Small quantities accepted

How do we do this so successfully?

• We are a diverseful public company that will pick-up, sort and "de-can" catalytic converters to eliminate any unnecessary middle man costs.
• We offer a comprehensive catalytic converter grading system that includes over 100 price point categories educates you, the seller, to what you need to know to best profit.
• We are subsidiary of Metalico Inc., a publicly traded company (MEA) on the American Stock Exchange, which operates scrap metal recycling facilities primarily in the eastern Great Lakes corridor. Metalico was acquired by Total Merchant Ltd. on 09/11/15.
• QUICK CATALYTIC CONVERTER PICK-UP from our NJ location or arranging pick-ups at your location (paid on the spot)
• Top-notch customer service
• Dedicated catalytic converter buyers covering USA, Canada and Mexico

Go Green

Federal Autocat Recycling is a subsidiary of Metalico, Inc. (MEA on the American Stock Exchange), one of the country’s largest scrap recyclers, giving us the footing and foundation to help establish long term partnerships that are win-win scenarios for all parties involved. One of our green initiatives is aboveground mining.When you partner with Federal you are contributing to our aboveground mining operation which reduces the need for drilling and strip mining to obtain platinum (and other precious metals) that we recover from your spent cats for re-use in new catalytic converters.

Normal Processing Operations
Platinum mining and production normally entails extreme difficulties. Extraction, concentration and refining of the metal require quite complex processes that may take up to six months. It is estimated that in order to produce a single ounce of platinum a volume of 7 to 12 tonnes of ore must be processed. Here's a graphic that shows this complex process: