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Industrial Metal and Catalyst Recyclers Deserve More Green Cred

BY Abendigo Reebs | 04-04-2008 | 1:59 PM
This blog is written by a member of our blogging community and expresses that member's views alone.

I'm kind of a green geek, so I get interested in lots of different
avenues, and one that I've become fascinated with lately is industrial
recycling for spent catalysts and non-ferrous metals.

Founded by Mark Spano in 1978, PM Recovery, Inc is a leading direct
processor, full-service logistics, and materials recovery facilities company for scrap metals and spent catalysts. The company specializes
in reducing the environmental liability and footprint of other
industrial behemoths, such as Exxon-Mobil. These are the kinds of
behind-the-scenes companies that are the true "green" heroes of today.

Specializing in tungsten carbide (W/WC), cobalt (CO), vanadium (V), nickel (NI) and
molybdenum (MO), these guys are basically a logistics company that takes
part in every aspect of the industrial catalyst and metals recycling
process. In other words, they aren't brokers but actual participants in
the systems of industrial recycling, with actual physical secondary
materials recovery plants.

On the catalyst side, you've got industries like aerospace,
electronics, magnet production, medical, mining, automotive and other
applications. And on the metals side, you've got industries like oil
and petroleum, pharmaceutical and industrial gases. And PM Recovery
does it all.