Scrap Metal Company Relocating

Clean Metal, a metal recycling company that operated in Fairmont, W.V. has relocated its operations from Fairmont, W.V. to Chester, Pa. However, according to Andrew Gongola, a managing partner with the company, the decision to relocate was not due to complaints from residents (as reported in some local press reports). Rather, the move was done to be closer to its one customer.

The company has been in operation for around two years. The company operates unlike many traditional recycling facilities, by servicing one customer, American Ref-Fuel. Additionally, the company will only be providing a handful of segregated products.

The facility, which should be operational at its Chester facility by the middle of October, will have a totally enclosed operation. The facility will be taking in primarily ferrous scrap from the waste-to-energy concern. The move will bring the company close to its supplier. The company extracts ash from the metal. “All my company does is service American Ref-Fuel,” Gongola says.

Clean Metal will resume operations in October in Chester, Pa., adjacent to the American Ref-Fuel facility.

According to Gongola the move makes economic sense to be close to the one supplier, rather than to the steel mills the company will be servicing.

As for press reports that the company moved due to pressure from residents, Gongola says “the local controversy was blown so far out of proportion.”