Miller Scrap purchases all types of non-ferrous and specialty metals including copper, aluminum, brass, nickel, stainless steel, zinc, catalytic converters, silver and gold plated, etc.
Four Generations of Recycling
Family Owned & Operated Since 1910
Wm. Miller Scrap Iron & Metal Co. was built on the reputation of quality local service, honesty, and the passion for building strong relationships. At a time when horse and buggy was the main form of transportation, the company began when Louis Miller formed Consumer Tire & Supply after he immigrated to Minnesota from Russia in the early 1900’s. They mainly sold tires, but also purchased rags, paper, and scrap metals and sold them for recycling purposes. Louis’ son, William, and his wife Esther, got involved in the business and later separated from Consumer Tire & Supply Co. and formed Miller Salvage and Supply Co. in 1950. Miller Salvage became Wm. Miller Scrap Iron & Metal Co. in 1955 and continued in the ferrous and non-ferrous scrap business.
In the early 1960′s, Miller Scrap expanded their scrap recycling operation into the refuse and roll-off dumpster business along with a small mixed solid waste (MSW) transfer station. In the early 1970′s, Miller Scrap purchased 10 acres of industrial land from the Winona Port Authority and moved their entire operation to the current location at 1252 Trempealeau Drive in Winona, MN. Today the third and fourth generations of the Miller family, along with a dedicated team of employees, are involved in the full service recycling operation.
Miller Scrap’s growth has been made possible by maintaining and building a reputation of quality service, honesty, strong relationships, and dedicated employees. The Millers are proud to be a family owned and operated business that dates back to 1910 and they still do business with many companies that they have been dealing with for multiple decades.
Aluminum, Copper, and Other Nonferrous Metals
Nonferrous metals, including aluminum, copper, lead, nickel, tin, zinc and others, are among the few materials that do not degrade or lose their chemical or physical properties in the recycling process. As a result, nonferrous metals have the capacity to be recycled an infinite number of times. As society’s awareness of the economic, environmental and energy savings associated with using recycling materials improves, along with the rapid growth in consumer demand for nonferrous metal-bearing products, the critical role of the reservoir of nonferrous metals in use becomes increasingly apparent. In the United States alone, the value of the nonferrous metal scrap industry, including precious and rare metal scrap, approached $50 billion in 2012.
While in terms of volume, nonferrous scrap makes up a relatively small percentage of the total quantity of material recycled in the United States, by value nonferrous metal scrap — including precious metal scrap — accounts for more than half of total U.S. scrap recycling industry earnings. More than 9.5 million metric tons of nonferrous scrap was processed in the United States last year from a wide array of consumer, commercial and industrial sources: everything from copper and precious metal circuitry in electronic devices, to soft-drink containers, automobile batteries and radiators, aluminum siding, airplane parts and more. Nonferrous scrap is then consumed by secondary smelters, refiners, ingot makers, fabricators, foundries and other industrial consumers in the United States and in more than 90 countries worldwide. These consumers rely on nonferrous scrap as a competitive, environmentally preferable and energy efficient input to manufacture brand new products, continuing the nonferrous metals lifecycle.
The Scrap Recycling Industry: Environmental Stewards
The U.S. scrap recycling industry, which employs 138,000 men and women, is also a pivotal player inenvironmental protection, resource conservation, and sustainability.
The scrap recycling industry recycled more than 135 million metric tons of materials in 2011, thereby transforming society’s outdated and obsolete products and materials into useful raw materials needed to produce new products. In doing so, the scrap recycling industry has made great savings in both energy and natural resources and thus has had an extremely positive impact on our environment.
Further, by purchasing products at the end of their life and processing them back into raw materials used in the manufacture of new products, scrap recycling reduces the need for virgin materials, such as iron ore, trees, and other natural resources.
Scrap recycling offers real sustainable solutions for balancing economic growth and environmental stewardship. Scrap recycling stimulates economies from small towns in rural America to major cities to international trade. The result is economic and environmental sustainability for our nation and our world.
Recycling Saves Energy
Recycling reduces greenhouse gas emissions by significantly saving the amount of energy needed to manufacture the products that we buy, build and use. The energy saved by recycling can then be used for more important purposes, such as heating our homes and powering our automobiles. The scrap recycling industry takes the job of environmental steward extremely seriously.
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