FEMCO signs service agreement with Metso

Global scrap equipment maker Metso has signed a service partner agreement with Pittsburgh-based FEMCO Holdings LLC for that firm’s FEMCO Machine subsidiary to provide service support for its metal recycling equipment throughout North America.

Metso describes FEMCO as a national machine repair, field service and rebuild company that has provided those services to the scrap, demolition and recycling industry for more than 50 years. In addition to its Pittsburgh headquarters, FEMCO has offices and facilities in Atlanta; Indianapolis; Olivehurst, California; Rifle, Colorado; Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania; and Gladewater, Texas.

“As a Metso authorized service provider, FEMCO’s experienced team will bolster service offerings for Metso’s broad metal recycling equipment line of shredders, preshredders, shears, balers, briquetters and loggers,” states Metso in its news release announcing the agreement.

“We’ve had a project-based relationship with FEMCO and quickly recognized how well their expertise, professionalism and high standards fit with our values,” says Mark Haire, vice president of Metal Recycling Americas with Metso. “With a mutual commitment to customer success, this formalized relationship elevates our emergency repair services and expands our lifecycle service programs.”

Comments Brad Kerkhoff, vice president of sales and marketing at FEMCO Machine, “We are very excited about this partnership and the opportunity to align with an industry-leading OEM (original equipment manufacturer) like Metso.”

The two firms say FEMCO’s national footprint of facilities and service equipment will “ensure the right equipment and resources to meet customer field service needs, including 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week emergency response.”

Metso says it maintains the largest installed base of metal recycling equipment in the scrap industry, with installation at both “large multinational scrap yards [and] local family-run scrap yards.” 

FEMCO says it “focuses on every step of maximizing our customer’s uptime, from turnkey project commissioning, 24/7 emergency response, preventive maintenance, inspection and rebuild services and customer OEM and aftermarket parts.”

The firm’s employees have in the past offered advice to Recycling Today readers on ferrous shear maintenance and metals baler maintenance.