Alpha Recycling expands to Pennsylvania

Bronx, New York-based Alpha Recycling Inc., which recycles catalytic converters and other scrap metals, has selected Pennsylvania for a new processing center, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf has announced. The new site in Stroudsburg Borough, Monroe County, will create 30 new, full-time jobs.

“The expansion of Alpha Recycling in Stroudsburg presents a welcome opportunity for eastern Pennsylvania and will bring much-needed family-sustaining jobs in a growing industry to Monroe County,” Wolf says. “This project will further cement our commonwealth’s reputation as a great place to do business and will provide Alpha Recycling with access to all the resources it needs to continue growing.”

Alpha Recycling operates processing centers in Bronx and in Trenton, New Jersey. The company, along with its strategic partner Global Refining Group, which has locations in Virginia and Nevada, is one of North America’s largest processors of catalytic converters. Alpha also purchases and processes other scrap metals, such as rims, starters, alternators, AC compressors, batteries, aluminum and copper.

The company located a site in Stroudsburg, owned by Re-Earth of Stroudsburg Inc., that has three 4,000-square-foot buildings. The project includes constructing a 20,000-square-foot addition to one of the three existing structures, along with renovations to all three buildings, according to a news release from Wolf’s office. Funding will help Alpha Recycling purchase necessary equipment and make site development improvements.

Alpha Recycling received a funding proposal from the Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED) for the project. The proposal includes a $100,000 Pennsylvania First grant and $60,000 in Job Creation Tax Credits to be distributed upon creation of the new jobs. The company has committed to investing $4 million into the expansion, according to the news release.

The project was coordinated by the Governor’s Action Team, a group of economic development professionals who report directly to the governor and work with businesses that are considering relocating to or expanding in Pennsylvania.

“We are grateful to Gov. Wolf, the Governor’s Action Team and the hard work of the Monroe County officials who helped in making our expansion a welcoming one,” a company representative of Alpha Recycling says in the news release. “In return, the county has our full commitment in seeing through that the residents have not only good job opportunities but long-term careers. It is our goal to continue expanding so that more opportunities are created above those to which we are already committed.”