Huron Valley Steel
1650 West Jefferson , Trenton, Michigan, United States

Since 1961 Huron Valley Steel Corporation has been a technological leader in the recycling industry. Long before recycling became a global concern, Huron Valley Steel was researching and developing systems to increase metal recovery and reduce waste stream volumes. Our many pioneering breakthroughs have made Huron Valley Steel an industry leader in the recovery and recycling of nonferrous metals.Each year Huron Valley Steel processes close to a billion pounds of material from automobile shredder operators. The metals recovered include aluminum, copper, brass, zinc and stainless steel. This metal, which in the past was sent to landfills, provides an economical alternative to extracting and processing metal bearing ores.Headquartered in Trenton, Michigan, Huron Valley Steel operates recovery and recycling facilities in Belleville, Michigan and Anniston, Alabama. We also have a joint-venture operation, HVF West, located in Tucson, Arizona.

Our Mission

"We are motivated by the knowledge that the Earth's resources are finite. We are dedicated to seeking and implementing ways of reclaiming and recycling all that mankind uses and casts aside. We are driven to our task by the conviction that the bounty of this Earth is but a loan...not to be consumed but, rather, to be shared with all future generations."

Metal Recovery & Processing

Globally the largest volume of scrap metal comes from vehicles. Each year more than 12 million vehicles are scrapped in North America alone. Prior to Huron Valley Steel’s development and refinement of automated sortation technologies, most nonferrous metal from automobile shredders was hauled to landfills.Aluminum accounts for approximately 75% of recovered metals at Huron Valley Steel. After processing the aluminum is available to customers as a mixed wrought/cast scrap, as a 3105 sow or as a 380 sow/ingot.The remaining 25% of nonferrous metals recovered are comprised of zinc, brass, copper and stainless steel. Huron Valley Steel has the capability to separate the majority of this mixed heavy metal concentrate into different metal groups but today, due to market conditions, most of the mixed metal concentrate is sold to our customers in the Far East.

Magnetics Division

For nearly 30 years Huron Valley Steel has been designing and manufacturing eddy current separators. Our family of eddy current separators efficiently remove non-ferrous metals from non-metallics at automobile shredders, municipal solid waste incinerators, landfills or any other site where these metals are present. And as one of the world’s largest end-users of eddy current equipment, Huron Valley Steel provides customers unique hands-on expertise in the use and maintenance of eddy current systems.