Mark Baker Core Supply

1927

Mark Baker Core Supply was originally called Franklin Unit.

It was started in 1927 in Philadelphia by Lou and Rose Baker as a scrap metal recycling business and eventually a starter and generator rebuilding operation. Franklin Unit also supplied cores to other rebuilders

1946

Harry Baker joined Franklin Unit in 1946 to 'help out' and consequently ran the company for the next 55 years.

He still acts as a consultant to Mark Baker Core Supply.

1974

In 1974, Mark Baker began working at Franklin for a summer resulting in the creation of his own company, Mark Baker Core Supply. Franklin Unit was, of course, his first client.

1980

Brian Baker joined in 1980. Over the next 35 years, the company morphed from strictly collecting and selling cores into a combination scrap and core supplying operation.

2010-11

Currently, the business is a de facto service business, our clients being auto dismantlers, metal recyclers and other producers of auto cores and scrap. We provide a full service to auto dismantlers and non-ferrous scrap yards - handling their cores and their scrap products. Mark Baker Core Supply is located in Pennsauken New Jersey, only a few miles from the original location of Franklin Unit.