Barry Hunter Honored by ISRI Chapter

Long-time scrap metals trader Barry Hunter will be presented with the Phoenix Award by the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries Inc. (ISRI).

Hunter, who is currently a partner in Hunter-BenMet Associates, New York, began his career in 1960, working for a Passaic, N.J., scrap company owned by his father and uncle.

He has subsequently worked for Schiavone Bonomo Corp., Jersey City, N.J., and for many years with the Samuel G. Keywell Co. (now known as Keywell LLC), reaching the position of senior vice president at the company’s Elizabeth, N.J., location.

In addition to his 40-year tenure in the scrap industry, Hunter has also assumed leadership roles in many trade organizations. He began his volunteer activities as an officer with the New Jersey Chapter of the Institute of Scrap Iron & Steel (ISIS), which later merged with the National Association of Recycling Industries (NARI) to form ISRI.

Within ISIS and ISRI, Hunter has served as president of the Scrap Metal Research & Education Foundation and as ISRI’s representative to the Bureau of International Recycling (BIR), Brussels.

Hunter has also excelled within BIR, serving for two decades as chairman of the group’s Stainless Steel & Specialty Alloys Committee and as the BIR’s vice-president before being elected as president in 1999. Last year, Hunter was re-elected to a second two-year term as BIR president.

The Phoenix Award will be presented to Hunter at the ISRI Mid-Atlantic Chapter’s fall meeting on Thursday, Nov. 21, in Lafayette Hills, Pa.