CMC lands carrier business - Scrap Industry News - Brief Article

Recycling Today, Oct, 2003

Commercial Metals Co. (CMC), Dallas, has entered into a multi-year contact with heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) equipment maker Carrier Corp., Farmington, Conn., to handle scrap generated at the company's U.S. manufacturing plants.

"For the past few years, CMC has handled the disposition of scrap generated by several of Carrier's manufacturing facilities," notes Larry Olschwanger, a vice president with CMC's Secondary Metals Processing Division. "We are pleased that their confidence in our service and capabilities resulted in the expansion of our scrap program to include their domestic operations."

Carrier Corp., a division of conglomerate United Technologies Corp., has 108 manufacturing plants on six continents worldwide, according to its Web site. In the U.S., Carrier has plants in several states, including Indiana, New York, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas.

Commercial Metals Co. operates more than 40 scrap metal recycling facilities, as well as four electric arc furnace steel mills and several other industrial facilities.