Sims Group
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Sims Metal Management is the world’s, as well as North America’s and Australasia’s, largest metals and electronics recycler. Sims Metal Management today has over 250 locations on five continents, and over 6,200 employees.
They recover and recycle end of life and abandoned scrap cars, consumer goods and surplus metal from manufacturing processes and other sources of ferrous and non ferrous scrap metal. As a result of their recycling process they produce fragmented furnace feed for steel works and high grade copper, aluminium and brass for smelting and re-use in manufacturing.
Sims Metal Management has 42 recycling sites throughout the UK. In Newport
Newport
Newport is a city and unitary authority area in Wales. Standing on the banks of the River Usk, it is located about east of Cardiff and is the largest urban area within the historic county boundaries of Monmouthshire and the preserved county of Gwent...
, South Wales
South Wales
South Wales is an area of Wales bordered by England and the Bristol Channel to the east and south, and Mid Wales and West Wales to the north and west. The most densely populated region in the south-west of the United Kingdom, it is home to around 2.1 million people and includes the capital city of...
, they host the world's largest industrial shredder
Industrial shredder
An industrial shredder is a machine used for reducing the size of all kinds of material. Industrial shredders come in many different variations and sizes. Some examples of materials that are commonly shredded are: tires, metals, car wrecks, wood, plastics, and garbage...
for scrap metal
Scrap Metal
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with access by road, rail and sea.
Sims Metal Management’s North American Division and Joint Ventures are located in 21 U.S. states and employs more than 4,400 men and women. The company has a network of 120 Sims Metal Management and Joint Venture facilities across North America.
Sims Recycling Solutions
Sims Recycling Solutions
Sims Recycling Solutions is the world’s largest electrical and electronics recovery and recycling company based in the UK, with operations in 50 locations on five continents. They process 475,000 tonnes of electronic waste each year...
is the brand name for the electronics recycling division, with around 30 operations in the USA, Canada, UK, Belgium, Germany, Sweden, Netherlands, Australia, India, Singapore, South Africa and New Zealand.
History
Sims Group merged with Metal ManagementMetal management
Metal Management was founded in 1983 and re-incorporated in Delaware in June 1986. Metal Management entered the scrap metal recycling industry on April 11, 1996, through its merger with EMCO Recycling Corp.-Overview:...
in 2008, a U.S.-based company, to form the biggest scrap metals company globally, Sims Metal Management Limited.
They have many locations in Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
, Europe
Europe
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, New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
, United Kingdom
United Kingdom
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, and the United States
United States
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