Connecticut Metal Industries Opens New Facility

Connecticut Metal Industries, Monroe, Conn., has announced the opening of a new 20,000-square-foot facility in Ansonia, Conn.  

The company, which has been identified with aluminum can and foil recycling for the last 24 years, has expanded to address the growing export markets for these and other nonferrous commodities.

“With the opening of this new facility, we can now receive truckloads of unprocessed and unsorted nonferrous materials and then sort and prepare them for our existing importers throughout Asia,” Tom Mele, president of Connecticut Metal Industries, says. “Of course, we will also continue to buy aluminum foils, laminates and plastic film rolls from recyclers and industrial customers throughout North America.”

Located in the heart of Connecticut’s historical “Brass Valley,” the company will operate entirely indoors in a 100-year-old brass finishing mill alongside the Naugatuck River adjacent to the Ansonia Copper and Brass Mill.

The facility, which Mele says will be fully operational before the end of January, will include baling equipment from Philadelphia Tramrail and Harris Waste Management Inc. The location has been open since the beginning of 2007 and has been receiving and shipping material—primarily flexible packaging from the pharmaceutical industry—since then, he adds.

In addition to its corporate office in Monroe, Connecticut Metal Industries also maintains a recycling facility in Piscataway, N.J. with delivery locations in Memphis and Chicago. The company ships material in and out of the Ports of New York; Newark, N.J.; Philadelphia; and Baltimore.

Connecticut Metal Industries can be reached at (203) 268-5909 and at sales@ctmetal.com for additional information.