Alcoa Announces Top 10 Scrap Aluminum Suppliers

Alcoa has named its “Top Ten North American Scrap Aluminum Suppliers for 2011. The company also has announced the recipient of its "Most Improved" Supplier for 2011. This marks the seventh consecutive year that Alcoa's scrap aluminum purchasing group has compiled a Top Ten list.

The aluminum giant says that key criteria to determine its top suppliers include safety, quality, volume, sustainability and environmental compliance and delivery performance.

In recognizing the top suppliers, Gary Doughty, Alcoa’s North American scrap materials manager, says, "This program has been a vital component of our plan to sustain and grow the flow of scrap aluminum into our locations."

"Alcoa plans to continue with this proven strategy as we look to the future to meet our growing need for scrap aluminum across our North American facilities," Doughty continues.

Alcoa’s top suppliers are the following:
 

•  American Iron and Metal LP Montreal, Ontario

 

•  Atlas Metal & Iron Corp., Denver

 

•  Commercial Metals Co., Dallas

 

•  Jack Engle & Company, Los Angeles

 

•  Omnisource & Omnisource SE Corp., Fort Wayne, Ind., Lyman, S.C.

 

•  PSC Metals Inc., Wooster, Ohio

 

•  Service Aluminum Corp., Baltimore

 

•  Schupan & Sons Inc., Kalamazoo, Mich.

 

•  State Metal Industries, Camden, N.J.

 

•  United Scrap Metal Inc. Cicero, Ill.,

Alcoa also named Sims Metal Management, Chicago, its 2011 North American Scrap Aluminum Purchasing "Most Improved" Supplier.