Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Automotive shredding companies worldwide
RevenueBase identified 2,693 automotive shredding companies worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 21,688 professional contacts across them, including 5,771 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and Houston the largest hub.
This list covers automotive shredding companies worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 30, 2026. Country and city lists for automotive shredding companies follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest automotive shredding companies worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 923 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “American Iron & Metal (AIM) is a family-owned, Canada-based company founded in 1936.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 829 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SA Recycling is one of the largest scrap metal recyclers in North America.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 793 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “OmniSource, LLC is one of North America’s largest metals recyclers, specializing in the collection, processing, and distribution of ferrous and nonferrous scrap.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 539 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sims Metal, division of Sims Limited, is a global metal recycler with operations that encompass the buying, processing and selling of ferrous and non-ferrous metals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 481 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 1986, the Pick-n-Pull chain of self-service auto parts stores is one of the largest recyclers of end-of-life vehicles in the industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 472 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 413 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “About us SA Metal Group (Pty) Ltd is South Africa’s oldest metal recycling company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 411 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Alter Trading Corporation is one of the nation's leading scrap metal recyclers and brokers, with processing centers and offices throughout the central United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 348 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Member of Zore's Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 296 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Fenix Parts is a leading automotive recycler and reseller of original equipment automotive products in the United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 192 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “From the proud heritage of our southeastern Michigan roots, Ferrous Processing & Trading have grown into one of North America’s premier processors, sellers and recyclers of scrap…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 182 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Galloo is one of Europe’s leading recycling firms of ferrous and non-ferrous metals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 154 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “HKS specialises in the recycling of ferrous and non-ferrous metals and electrical scrap to produce high-quality raw materials for metal producers worldwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 154 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Empresa especializada em reciclagem automotiva e comércio de autopeças para caminhões.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 153 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Shred-Tech® specializes in manufacturing complete shredding and recycling solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 146 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “B&R Auto is one of the largest suppliers of recycled OEM automotive parts in the western United States, helping repair shops, dealerships, insurance partners, and vehicle owners…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 118 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The company Lindner, which is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year, has been offering innovative, tried-and-tested shredding solutions for decades.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 108 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Il y a 40 ans, INDRA est née avec une idée simple : faire de ce que d’autres appelaient la fin… un nouveau départ.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 108 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Newell Recycling Southeast is proud to be one of the nation's premier processors of ferrous and non-ferrous scrap metals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 106 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “WENDT CORPORATION is a world leading integrator and supplier of Automobile Shredding and Non-Ferrous Separation Systems.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 105 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “With more than industrial shredders around the globe, UNTHA is a world-renowned manufacturer of robust, innovative and energy efficient industrial shredding technology.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 104 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The German engineering company Lindemann was founded in 1913 and quickly built an excellent internationally reputation as manufacturer and supplier for high-quality metal…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 100 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “LEFORT® is a globally recognized manufacturer of premium scrap metal recycling equipment, specializing in high-performance shears, balers and shredders.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 97 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “River Metals Recycling, LLC (RMR) is a wholly owned venture of Cincinnati-based, The David J.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 95 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sadoff Iron & Metal offers scrap metal recycling of non-ferrous metals and ferrous scrap, auto salvage, electronics recycling, and more from multiple convenient locations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: automotive shredding companies. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names automotive shredding companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of automotive shredding companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name automotive shredding companies. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Automotive shredding companies worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 30, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among automotive shredding companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for automotive shredding companies are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “automotive shredding companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names automotive shredding companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among automotive shredding companies, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 5,771 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 30, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Automotive shredding companies by location
11 lists · largest firstEvery Automotive shredding companies list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Automotive shredding companies based in the United States830
- Automotive shredding companies based in the United Kingdom180
- Automotive shredding companies based in Germany171
- Automotive shredding companies based in Italy141
- Automotive shredding companies based in France119
- Automotive shredding companies based in India106
- Automotive shredding companies based in Australia97
- Automotive shredding companies based in Canada97
- Automotive shredding companies based in the Netherlands81
- Automotive shredding companies based in Belgium30
Cities
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names automotive shredding companies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many automotive shredding companies are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 2,693 automotive shredding companies worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
American Iron & Metal AIM, headquartered in Montreal, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most automotive shredding companies?
The United States leads with 830 companies, followed by the United Kingdom (180) and Germany (171). Every automotive shredding companies list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most automotive shredding companies?
Houston leads with 26 headquartered companies, followed by London (13) and Mumbai (12).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 5,771 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 2,693 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 30, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.