Runick Metal Recycling

What Runick Metal Recycling does

Runick Metal Recycling is a privately held, single-location scrap metal recycler founded in 2007 and based in Wonewoc, Wisconsin. The company purchases both ferrous (iron, steel) and nonferrous (aluminum, copper, stainless steel, nickel, brass, tin, lead) scrap from area residents, local manufacturers, municipalities, and small businesses, and processes it via sorting, shearing, torching, and baling for resale to steel mills and foundries throughout the Midwest. Its end-of-life vehicle business accepts cars, motorcycles, heavy trucks, semis, and tractors, including non-running units collected via flatbed pickup.

The business operates a direct-to-consumer model centered on a physical yard at W9794 Hwy 33, where customers receive on-site unloading assistance using cranes and forklifts. Adjacent service lines extend the core offering: hauling via tow trucks and specialized clam trucks, dumpster rental, demolition of metal structures such as steel sheds and silos, licensed Freon removal from appliances ($15 fee per unit), and fee-based tire disposal. Pricing is purely transactional, set at prevailing daily scrap-metal market rates with no fixed tiers, subscriptions, or contracts, and the company carries no patents, trademarks, certifications, awards, or disclosed partnerships.

Commercial reach is regional and localized, with no multi-site footprint, no digital platform beyond a basic website and 'Junk Your Car' intake form, and no disclosed revenue, headcount growth, or external capital. The 1-10 employee operation relies on the spread between scrap purchase prices paid to suppliers and resale prices realized from industrial buyers, supplemented by fees on ancillary services, as its sole revenue mechanism.

Name

Runick Metal Recycling

Legal name

Runick Metal Recycling

Website

https://runickmetal.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2007

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Runick Metal Recycling is a privately held, single-yard scrap metal recycler in Wonewoc, Wisconsin that buys ferrous and nonferrous scrap from residents, manufacturers, municipalities, and small businesses, processing it for resale to Midwest steel mills and foundries while offering hauling, demolition, vehicle pickup, and Freon removal as add-on services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Scrap Metal Recycling

NAICS

Materials Recovery Facilities (56292), Waste Collection (56211)

akta.pro primary industry

Scrap Metal & White Goods Aggregation Yards (EUAIABAH)

akta.pro secondary industries

Scrap Collection, Brokerage & Trading (Dealers, Aggregators, Exporters) (EUAIAJAH), Metals Recycling & Processing (Ferrous/Non-Ferrous) (BPALADAF)

Keywords

• Scrap metal recycling
• Ferrous metal buying
• Nonferrous metal buying
• Vehicle pickup recycling
• Metal demolition services

Headquarters

HQ city

Wonewoc

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Supply Chain, Personnel, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Scrap Metal Purchase and Resale: The company purchases scrap metal from area residents, manufacturers, municipalities, and small businesses, then processes it for resale to steel mills and foundries in the Midwest. Revenue is generated through the margin between purchase price paid to sellers and the sale price to industrial consumers.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Runick Metal Recycling purchases ferrous and nonferrous scrap metal from area residents, manufacturers, municipalities, and small businesses in Wisconsin, then processes the material on-site through sorting, shearing, torching, and baling before reselling the output to steel mills and foundries across the Midwest. The company also offers complementary services including hauling, dumpster rental, demolition of metal structures, vehicle pickup, tire disposal, and licensed Freon removal from appliances.

Product overview

Runick Metal Recycling is a single-location metal recycling business founded in 2007, offering a unified scrap metal purchasing and recycling service. Their core offering centers on buying and processing ferrous and nonferrous metals including vehicles, farm machinery, appliances, and various scrap metals. The company provides related services including hauling (via tow trucks and clam trucks), dumpster rental, vehicle pickup, and demolition of metal structures. They process raw scrap through sorting, shearing, torching, and baling before selling to regional steel mills and foundries. The business operates a single facility in Wonewoc, Wisconsin with no modular product architecture or separate product lines.

Differentiator

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Products and services

• Scrap Metal Purchasing and Recycling Core service: purchases ferrous and nonferrous scrap metal from area residents, local manufacturers, municipalities, and small businesses. Metals are processed on-site via sorting, shearing, torching, and baling and sold to steel mills and foundries across the Midwest.
• Vehicle Purchase and Pickup Runick purchases cars, motorcycles, heavy trucks, semis, and tractors (whether running or not) and offers pickup services for vehicles that no longer run, using flatbeds equipped to handle vehicles of all sizes and conditions.
• Hauling Services Hauling of farm machinery, vehicles, and semi trailers using tow trucks and specialized clam trucks with claw-like booms that can load into high-sided boxes.
• Dumpster Services Rental of dumpsters for customers needing temporary containers for scrap metal disposal.
• Demolition Services On-site demolition of metal structures such as steel sheds and silos, with debris then hauled away or processed through the yard's equipment.
• Tire Disposal Tire disposal service offered for a fee alongside scrap metal drop-offs.
• Freon Removal (Appliances) The company is licensed to remove refrigerant from appliances still containing Freon, charging a $15.00 disposal fee for proper environmental handling.

Named customers4 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Emerging players

• Trademark Metals Recycling: Florida-based scrap metal recycler with multiple yards accepting residential, commercial, and industrial ferrous/nonferrous scrap. Similar small-dealer/aggregator model with on-site heavy equipment processing, though operating in a different regional market.

Regional players

• Huron Valley Steel: Michigan-based scrap metal recycler operating yards serving auto and industrial scrap generators in the Upper Midwest. Similar Midwestern geography and processing-oriented model, though larger and more auto-stamping-focused than Runick.

Broad incumbents

• EMR (European Metal Recycling): Global metal recycling group with extensive U.S. yard footprint (including ex-Metalico assets). Establishes the scale benchmark for U.S. scrap aggregation and represents the same downstream markets for recycled ferrous/nonferrous feed.
• Commercial Metals Company (CMC): Vertically integrated steelmaker that also operates scrap metal recycling yards feeding its minimills. Comparable at the off-take side as a buyer of Runick's processed scrap and as a competing yard operator in many U.S. markets.
• Schnitzer Steel Industries: Public, large-scale U.S. metal recycler operating yards across the West and Pacific Northwest, processing ferrous and nonferrous scrap for sale to steel mills. Much larger than Runick but represents the same buyer category for its processed output.

Direct peers

• Sadoff Metals: Wisconsin-based scrap metal recycler and e-waste processor operating multiple yards in the Midwest. Directly comparable to Runick as a regional ferrous/nonferrous aggregator selling to mills, with overlapping Wisconsin geography and similar customer mix of residents, manufacturers, and small businesses.
• Metal Recyclers LLC: Independent scrap metal recycling business purchasing ferrous and nonferrous scrap from public, commercial, and industrial generators. Closely matches Runick's dealer/aggregator model, transaction-based pricing, and yard-based processing/sorting operations.
• Cohen Metals Group: Ohio-headquartered independent ferrous and nonferrous scrap processor with yards across the Midwest. Comparable dealer/aggregator business model with similar downstream off-take to steel mills and foundries.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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