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Top 25 Metal scrap compactors based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 568 metal scrap compactors headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 9,036 professional contacts across them, including 2,731 with verified work emails. Houston is the largest hub.
This list covers metal scrap compactors headquartered in the United States, 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 20, 2026.
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 metal scrap compactors based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 829 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “SA Recycling is one of the largest scrap metal recyclers in North America.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 793 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 539 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 411 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 205 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Trademark Metals Recycling, LLC (TMR) is a wholly owned venture of Cincinnati-based, The David J.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 192 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 171 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “PTR Baler and Compactor Company is the recognized source of high quality vertical balers and waste compactors manufactured for safety and long life.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 106 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “WENDT CORPORATION is a world leading integrator and supplier of Automobile Shredding and Non-Ferrous Separation Systems.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 97 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “River Metals Recycling, LLC (RMR) is a wholly owned venture of Cincinnati-based, The David J.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 95 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 94 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “SSI Shredding Systems designs, engineers and manufactures low-speed, high-torque industrial shredders and size reduction systems for a variety of solid waste recycling and scrap…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 70 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Sierra International Machinery is a worldwide leader in selling and supporting of processing equipment to the metal, recycling, and waste industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 69 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “By leveraging our worldwide network, AIM Recycling has become one of the fastest growing recycling companies in the Southern US.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 64 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Marathon Equipment Company is known throughout the world as a leading manufacturer of onsite commercial/industrial trash compactors, balers, and recycling equipment.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 63 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “EL Harvey & Sons is a full-service waste hauling, transfer, and recycling operation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 60 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “AMG Resources is a metal recycling company with operations and sales offices across the United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 55 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Metal Recyclers, Demolition, Metal Sales” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 51 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Western Metals Recycling, LLC (WMR) is a wholly owned venture of Cincinnati-based, The David J.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 48 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ALL RECYCLING INC- DENVER, CO Founded in 1993 All Recycling originally began as a nonferrous recycler, and gradually expanded into ferrous materials.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Williams Patent Crusher & Pulverizer Co.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 45 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Allied Alloys is a full-service scrap metal recycling company headquartered in Houston, TX.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Ecovery is a North American leader of non-ferrous metal processing, primarily focusing on copper and aluminum bearing scrap.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Recycling Equipment Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Louisiana Scrap Metal Recycling offers metal recycling services for you and your business.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 38 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Shine Bros.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 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: metal scrap compactors. 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 metal scrap compactors.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of metal scrap compactors, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name metal scrap compactors. 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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Metal scrap compactors based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 568 companies.
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 metal scrap compactors, 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.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United States whose own description of what they do matches “metal scrap compactors”. 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 metal scrap compactors), 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 metal scrap compactors, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- 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, 2,731 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 20, 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.
Metal scrap compactors by metro
- Metal scrap compactors in Houston25
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 metal scrap compactors, 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 metal scrap compactors are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 568 metal scrap compactors headquartered in the United States 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?
SA Recycling, headquartered in Orange, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most metal scrap compactors?
Houston leads with 25 headquartered companies, followed by Chicago (6) and Dallas (6).
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 2,731 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 568 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 20, 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.
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