The company has purchased a yard from SA Recycling on Joyce Avenue in Columbus, Ohio.
Columbus Metal Recycling, headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, has acquired the 10-acre, rail-served recycling facility at 1283 Joyce Ave. in Columbus from SA Recycling, headquartered in Orange, California. The purchase gives the company four locations in central Ohio.
Originally operated as Joyce Iron & Metal, the property later operated under PSC Metals, which SA Recycling acquired in late 2021.
Columbus Metal Recycling, a family-owned and -operated recycling company, specializes in purchasing, processing, transporting and marketing ferrous and nonferrous scrap metal and also provides electronics recycling, automotive recycling, logistics, transloading, toll processing and brokerage services to industrial, commercial, demolition, dealer and retail customers.
Columbus Metal Recycling says it plans to return the Joyce Avenue site to active operation while expanding its ferrous and nonferrous processing, transloading, toll processing and roll-off container services.
“We plan to make substantial investments in the property, equipment and infrastructure,” says Columbus Metal Recycling CEO Christopher Weber. “Initially, we’ll be relocating our ferrous processing operation to Joyce Avenue and adding automotive recycling, transloading and toll processing. Longer term, the size of the property and rail access give us the opportunity to significantly expand both the volume of material we handle and the types of processing we perform. We’re evaluating several larger-scale processing investments, but we’re not ready to announce anything specific yet.”
Weber adds that Columbus Metal Recycling’s existing ferrous operation, on less than 1 acre, has sorted, processed and shipped more than 4,000 tons per month. “Moving that operation to 10 acres with rail access gives us considerably more capacity and room to grow,” he says. “We haven’t established a public tonnage target for Joyce Avenue yet, but we expect volumes to grow substantially as the facility comes online and we expand its capabilities.”
In addition to the Joyce Avenue site, Columbus Recycling operates another yard under that name (formerly Ohio Drop Off Recycling Center) that focuses on electronics recycling, commercial and retail scrap purchasing and wholesale nonferrous purchasing. Columbus Recycling also operates Masser Metals & Recycling, which it acquired in 2019, serving industrial, commercial, dealer and demolition customers, and Sidney Metal Recycling, a full-service ferrous and nonferrous recycling yard in Sidney, Ohio, that it acquired in 2024, Weber says.