Beginning in January 2004, Federal Autocat introduced a new grading program to give our customers maximum value for the precious metal content in this category of converters! Federal Autocat Recycling employs a proprietary (patent pending) process that recovers the full value of Platinum group metals from "metal substrate" or "foil" converters. We will provide our customers with a comprehensive library of converter sizes and types that will enable accurate grading and profitable purchasing of converters in this category. Our proprietary recovery process is clean, efficient and friendly to the environment. A new category means a new profit stream for our customers.Federal Autocat through its sister company Eastern Catalytic will send you a check for your spent catalytic converter upon the purchase of a new one from Eastern. Upon receipt of your new catalytic converter, enclose the old one into the same packing box with the prepaid postage label we provide. Upon delivery to Eastern, we will grade your returned unit and send you a check in four to six weeks. Soon thereafter we process and refine its PGM and apply them to new converters

Federal Autocat is a distributor for the Northeast of customized lead sheet for our sister company, Mayco.Mayco Inc. is the largest fabricator of lead based products, other than batteries, in the United States. The Company manufactures and sells its lead sheet and other lead products on a nationwide basis to a diverse industrial customer base. MAYCO operates six plants; with the headquarters located in Birmingham, Alabama. Federal Autocat Recycling is a subsidiary of Metalico, Inc. (MEA on the American Stock Exchange), one of the country’s largest scrap recyclers, giving us the footing and foundation to help establish long term partnerships that are win-win scenarios for all parties involved. One of our green initiatives is aboveground mining.When you partner with Federal you are contributing to our aboveground mining operation which reduces the need for drilling and strip mining to obtain platinum (and other precious metals) that we recover from your spent cats for re-use in new catalytic converters.