AAEQ Manufacturers and Recyclers Changing Name

AAEQ Manufacturers and Recyclers has announced it will be changing its corporate name to A&A Midwest, effective Jan. 1, 2012. According to Scott Stolberg, president and CEO of AAEQ, the company's cores, recycling and auto wrecking divisions will use the new corporate name and be respectively known as A&A Midwest Cores, A&A Midwest Recycling and A&A Midwest Auto Wrecking. The company's two divisions for engine parts and transmission parts will continue as EngineQuest and TransmissionQuest.

“My father and uncle started the company in 1949 as A&A Midwest, signifying their two first names, Aaron and Alex, and Midwest identified their location in Chicago,” Stolberg explains. “As the business grew and diversified, we changed our corporate name to AAEQ, but kept A&A Midwest for our cores business. A lot of customers were confused by our different names and didn't know what to call us. We believe our new structure and corporate name is a better way to organize our business and returns us to our historic roots while identifying our five distinct divisions.”

•        Cores: A&A Midwest Cores
•        Recycling: A&A Midwest Recycling
•        Auto Wrecking: A&A Midwest Auto Wrecking
•        EngineQuest: EQ – EngineQuest
•        TransmissionQuest: TQ – TransmissionQuest

A&A Midwest has operations in both Chicago and Las Vegas. The company also processes end of life vehicles at its auto recycling facility in Blue Island, Ill.