North American Recycling

What North American Recycling does

North American Recycling is a privately held scrap metal recycling company headquartered at 16156 NorthSide Blvd. in Nampa, Idaho, operating a single physical processing facility serving the local and regional market. The company purchases ferrous and non-ferrous scrap — aluminum, copper, brass, iron, tin, steel, and scrap automobiles — from two distinct customer pools: walk-in public/residential customers at the Nampa facility and commercial/industrial accounts serviced on-site. Its core product is straightforward commodity buy-and-resale, with revenue earned on the spread between the per-weight price paid to sellers and the price realized from local, national, and international mills, with payment made to sellers immediately upon weighing.

The company's commercial offering is differentiated operationally rather than technologically. It owns and operates its own fleet of trucks and containers — including 20/30/40-yard roll-offs and square bins up to 5,000 lbs — enabling container placement, scheduled pickup, and on-site cleanup and demolition services for manufacturers, construction firms, automotive shops, utilities, agricultural operations, and landowners. Public customers self-transport; commercial accounts are managed through dedicated on-site service. Pricing is transaction-based, variable by metal type, alloy, and contamination level, and not publicly listed; quotes are generated at the facility at point of sale. The technology stack consists of on-site weighing scales, loading docks, the company's own truck fleet, a website with an educational metals guide, a coupons page, and an online bin pickup scheduling form. Loyalty is driven through downloadable coupons and a third-party Recycling Rewards program hosted on the RewardBooth platform.

North American Recycling's go-to-market is sales-led and direct: no third-party distributors, channel partners, or marketplaces are used, and all distribution runs through the owned Nampa facility and owned logistics chain. Marketing is primarily digital and referral, anchored by a content-rich website, an active Facebook presence, coupons, and the rewards program. The company is privately held with no disclosed institutional investors, no parent entity, no M&A activity, and no funding rounds. Its defensibility rests on its owned logistics asset base, direct mill relationships, two-plus decades of local operating history, and commercial account stickiness rather than any disclosed proprietary technology, patents, or AI capability.

Name

North American Recycling

Legal name

North American Recycling

Website

https://northamericanrecycling.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2005

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

North American Recycling is a privately held, single-site scrap metal recycling company in Nampa, Idaho, purchasing ferrous and non-ferrous metals from the public and commercial accounts and reselling to mills via owned trucks and containers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Scrap Metal Recycling

NAICS

Recyclable Material Merchant Wholesalers (42393)

SIC

Wholesale-Metals & Minerals (No Petroleum) (5050)

akta.pro primary industry

Metals Recycling & Processing (Ferrous/Non-Ferrous) (BPALADAF)

akta.pro secondary industries

Scrap Collection, Brokerage & Trading (Dealers, Aggregators, Exporters) (EUAIAJAH), Non-Ferrous Scrap Processing & Recycling (Aluminum, Copper, Brass, Lead, Zinc) (EUAIAJAB)

Keywords

• Scrap metal recycling
• Ferrous metal recycling
• Non-ferrous metal recycling
• Commercial container services
• On-site scrap cleanup

Headquarters

HQ city

Nampa

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Scrap Metal Purchase and Resale: North American Recycling purchases ferrous and non-ferrous scrap metals (Aluminum, Copper, Brass, Iron, Tin, Steel, and Autos) from the public and commercial businesses, then resells processed materials to local, national, and international mills. Revenue is earned through the margin between purchase price paid to sellers and sale price to mills. Payment to sellers is immediate upon weighing.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

North American Recycling purchases ferrous and non-ferrous scrap metals — including Aluminum, Copper, Brass, Iron, Tin, Steel, and scrap automobiles — from both the general public and commercial businesses at its Nampa, Idaho facility. The company processes, weighs, and pays sellers on the spot, then resells the processed metals to local, national, and international mills. It complements purchasing with commercial rolloff and square bin container placement/pickup, on-site cleanup and demolition crews, a Recycling Rewards loyalty program, and downloadable bonus coupons.

Product overview

North American Recycling is a premier scrap metal recycling company operating for 20+ years in Nampa, Idaho. The company offers a unified portfolio of recycling services centered around its core Metal Recycling Services and Commercial Container Services, which are complemented by On-Site Cleanup Services for large-scale projects. Additional value-added offerings include a Recycling Rewards Program for customer loyalty, Coupons for bonus payments, and a Metals Guide educational resource. The company owns and operates its own fleet of trucks and containers, works directly with mills, and provides immediate payment to customers delivering ferrous and non-ferrous metals including aluminum, copper, brass, steel, and scrap automobiles.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Metal Recycling Services Core scrap metal recycling service accepting ferrous and non-ferrous metals (Aluminum, Copper, Brass, Iron, Tin, Steel) and scrap automobiles at the Nampa, Idaho facility. Processes materials with on-site weighing and provides immediate payment to sellers.
• Commercial Container Services

Named customers1 record

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Regional players

• Pacific Steel & Recycling: Pacific Northwest and Mountain West scrap metal recycler with yard and container operations across several states. Highly comparable model and overlapping geography with North American Recycling's Idaho footprint.
• Friedman Recycling: Family-owned scrap metal recycler based in the Southwest U.S. with yards serving commercial, industrial, and public customers. Highly comparable in size, ownership profile, and service mix, but operates in a different regional geography than North American Recycling.

Broad incumbents

• Radius Recycling (formerly Schnitzer Steel): Large, publicly traded ferrous and non-ferrous scrap metal recycler operating yards and shredders across the U.S. and globally. Directly comparable as a metals recycler sourcing from commercial accounts and selling to mills, though at much greater scale and geographic breadth than North American Recycling.
• Sims Metal: Global publicly traded scrap metal recycler with extensive yard and processing operations. Comparable business model of buying ferrous and non-ferrous scrap from commercial and consumer sources and selling to mills, but operating at substantially larger scale.
• European Metal Recycling (EMR Group): Global scrap metal recycler with operations across Europe and the U.S. Comparable business model of ferrous/non-ferrous collection, processing, and mill offtake, but at materially larger scale and international diversification.

Direct peers

• SA Recycling: Major U.S. scrap metal recycler with yards across the West and Southeast, operating the same buy-from-public-and-commercial / sell-to-mills model. Closely comparable in service mix (ferrous, non-ferrous, autos, container services) but with a multi-state footprint.
• Cohen Metals Recycling: Regional U.S. scrap metal recycler running similar yard-based ferrous and non-ferrous processing and container services. Closely comparable operating model and customer mix, though Cohen operates multiple yards across the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic.
• Trademark Metals Recycling: Operates a network of scrap metal recycling yards primarily in Florida, accepting ferrous and non-ferrous metals from the public and commercial accounts. Directly comparable in yard-based operations and container services but concentrated in a different U.S. region.
• OmniSource: Mid-Atlantic and Midwest scrap metal processor handling ferrous, non-ferrous, and end-of-life vehicles, with mill and foundry offtake. Comparable model as a metals aggregator selling into steel mills and foundries, with broader geographic coverage.
• Metalico: U.S. scrap metal recycler with yards and processing facilities focused on ferrous and non-ferrous metals. Similar operating footprint of regional yards serving commercial and walk-in customers and selling to mills and smelters.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/northamericanrecycling
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/north-american-recycling

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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