Metalico, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in scrap metal recycling business. The company collects and processes ferrous and non-ferrous metals; and collects and processes industrial and obsolete scrap metal into reusable forms, and supplies recycled metals to consumers, including electric arc furnace mills, integrated steel mills, foundries, secondary smelters, aluminum recyclers, and metal brokers. It also acquires and sells unprocessed scrap metals to consumers in the United States and Canada, as well as to exporters and international brokers. The company s ferrous products primarily include sheared, bundled, and shredded scrap metal; and other scrap metal, such as plate and structural, turnings, busheling, and broken cast iron. In addition, it sorts, processes, and packages non-ferrous metals, which include aluminum, copper, stainless steel, brass, nickel-based alloys, and high-temperature alloys; and recycles platinum group metals, platinum, palladium, and rhodium from substrate material retrieved from catalytic converters. Further, the company recycles minor metals, such as molybdenum, tungsten, tantalum, niobium, rhenium, and chrome. Metalico, Inc. was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Cranford, New Jersey. As of September 11, 2015, Metalico Inc. was taken private.