Advanced Steel News
21st-century scrap
FORTUNE magazine
The modern era of global commerce began 50 years ago, on April 26, 1956, when trucker-turned-shipper Malcom McLean loaded 58 truck bodies onto an aging tanker in Newark, bound for Houston.
Fiddler Strikes Chord With Metal Gig
Rednova News
The socialist market economy of China’s 1.3 billion population has a voracious appetite for scrap iron. But backhoes can fill only three shipping containers a day. Nathan Frankel, 31, president of Advanced Steel Recovery in Fontana came up with a better way. Frankel developed a conveyor-driven loading machine that has enabled Advanced Steel Recovery to ship about 15,000 metric tons of scrap since it began using the device in April.
Export like the big boys, inventor says
American Metal Market
Advanced Steel Recovery Inc. has teamed with an equipment maker and developed an innovative sea-container loading technology that allows it to export ferrous scrap to offshore steel mills, a market that has been dominated by the big scrap export yards for decades.
Innovative Sea Container Loading Technology
Recycling Today
Advanced Steel Recovery, Inc. today announced the immediate commencement of scrap metal shipments overseas using an innovative sea-container loading technology that dramatically reduces container-loading time to 15 minutes from 4 hours.
Entrepreneur Is Shipping Scrap Metal by the Box
Los Angeles Times
Nathan Frankel devised a machine that could revolutionize the way the material is transported overseas. Now he has to sell it.
First on West Coast to Install Harris Press and Shear’s
We are pleased to announce the successful installation of Harris’ GS-11-E-5, 1100 ton Shear/Baler/Logger at ASR’s 6-acre scrap processing plant in Fontana, CA, making ASR the most technologically advanced and one of the highest capacity facilities in the region.