Hunter-BenMet Assoc - People - Brief Article

Recycling Today, Nov, 2002

Long-time scrap metals trader Barry Hunter will be presented with the Phoenix Award by the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries Inc. (ISRI).

Hunter, currently a partner in Hunter-BenMet Associates, New York, began his career in 1960, working for a Passaic, NJ., scrap company owned by his father and uncle.

He also has worked for Schiavone Bonomo Corp., Jersey City, NJ., and for the Samuel G. Keywell Co. and its successor firms, reaching the position of senior vice president at its Elizabeth, NJ., location.

Hunter also has assumed leadership roles in many wade organizations, including president of the Scrap Metal Research & Education Foundation and ISRI's representative to the Bureau of International Recycling (BIR), Brussels.

Within BIR Hunter has served as chairman of the Stainless Steel & Specialty Alloys Committee, vice president and president. In 2001Hunter was re-elected to a second two-year term as BIR president.

The Philadelphia Metals Association created the Phoenix Award in the 1950s to recognize an individual's lifetime contributions to the recycling industry. The ISRI Mid-Atlantic Chapter reprised the award last year, acknowledging Stanton A. Moss, Bryn Mawr, Pa.