Metals Recycler Honors Saint-Gobain as Supplier

Ardleigh Minerals Inc., Shaker Heights, Ohio, has presented recognition plaques to Saint-Gobain Ceramics Igniter Products to honor the company’s “green” efforts of recycling diverse materials through Ardleigh.

In late August, Ernie Petrey of Ardleigh visited Saint-Gobain Ceramics Igniter Products’ Milford, N.H., facility and presented Guy R. Morin, operations manager, and Richard F. Hillman Jr., safety and environmental specialist, with plaques to acknowledge the manufacturer’s recycling of byproduct materials in 2005, 2006 and 2007.

 The plaques were presented to Saint-Gobain Ceramics Igniter Products to recognize the Ardleigh Minerals customer as well as to encourage other companies to think about recycling more of their byproduct materials. “By working together with St. Gobain, each year we have been able to identify additional types of material used in their processes that can be recycled,” says Petrey. “We now recycle a wide variety of materials that previously went to the landfill.”

Ardleigh Minerals is a recycler and supplier of raw materials for the metallurgical, ceramic, cement and agriculture industries. “We actively search for a broad assortment of materials that can be recycled or utilized as raw materials in their entirety,” says Petrey. “We found our niche by providing one-stop-recycling services for producers of by-product, off specification and obsolete materials,” he continues. “Our hope is that companies will follow the great example of manufacturers such as Saint-Gobain Ceramics Igniter Products and consider a service such as ours, rather than sending these types of materials to landfills.”

Saint-Gobain Ceramics Igniter Products is a part of Saint-Gobain Ceramics, a business unit of Companie de Saint-Gobain, a multi-national corporation with headquarters in Paris.

Ardleigh Minerals’ corporate offices are near Cleveland with additional sales offices in Charlotte, N.C., and Indianapolis, Ind. More information about Ardleigh Minerals can be found on the Web at www.ardleigh.net.