Niagara Metals named Business of the Year by the Niagara USA Chamber

Niagara USA Chamber, an organization of businesses in the Niagara County, N.Y., area, has named Niagara Metals, a Niagara Falls, N.Y., scrap metal recycling firm, its Business of the Year for 2010. The award was announced at a meeting on Feb. 27.

In accepting the award, Todd Levin, owner of the company, recognized the company’s staff for its success. “I am totally honored, but we aren’t close to where we want to be,” Levin said. “We have so much further we want to go and couldn’t go there without the great staff we have.”

In honoring Niagara Metals, the organization notes that various submissions touched on a number of positive steps the company has taken since opening its first scrap yard, including creating more than a dozen jobs in the area without government grants or loans; refurbishing blighted property into a fully functioning business; recycling more than 3 million pounds of ferrous and nonferrous metals; using local contractors and vendors; reconstructing a CSX rail siding, which resulted in a switch from the use of 250 truck shipments a month to 100 rail car loads a month; and contributing to various charities in the area.

The company, which has been in business for around four years, is seeking to expand its operations. As part of its expansion plan, the company is looking to open a feeder yard in Royalton, N.Y., which the company hopes will be the first of several feeder yards the company will be opening over the next several years in Western New York.