Ben Weitsman of Rochester to build warehouse

Upstate Shredding - Weitsman Recycling, headquartered in Owego, New York, has broken ground on a new steel warehouse at its Ben Weitsman of Rochester facility in Rochester, New York. Ben Weitsman of Rochester presently operates locations in Binghamton, Owego and Ithaca, New York. The company says the new warehouse will expand its new steel division into Rochester. The ground breaking for the building took place the last week of September, and the company says the building is expected to be open by January 2015.

Adam Weitsman, owner of Upstate Shredding - Weitsman Recycling, says, “We look forward to expanding our new steel business into the Rochester market. Our initiative this year has been on further growing the new steel division companywide and this fits in perfectly with our strategy. We anticipate becoming a major player in the new steel business throughout the Northeast as our footprint for scrap recycling continues to aggressively grow.”

Weitsman continues, “The two complement each other well and we have been pleased with the increase in sales for new steel and look forward to bringing it to Rochester with a brand new 10,000-square-foot warehouse that customers and the Rochester community will be proud of.”

The company says the new steel warehouse will stock and distribute structural, flats and rounds, plate and sheet, bar stock, tubing and pipe in steel, aluminum and stainless. The Rochester location also will saw, cut and shear as well as perform rebar fabrication.

Upstate Shredding - Weitsman Recycling says it will provide delivery service for its customers. Implementation of a new ERP system will tie all new steel locations together in order to keep inventory levels at minimums, which will in turn lower cost to give greater savings to our customers, the company says.

Since acquiring the assets of Genesee Scrap in August 2011, Ben Weitsman of Rochester, a division of Upstate Shredding, says it has grown customer volume more than 10 times.