MKG International earns export award

Princeton, New Jersey-based MGK International Inc. and its Non-Ferrous Business Development Manager Dipan Patel have been recognized by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce with an E-Award for export activities.

“The President’s E-Award for exports [was given] in recognition of the company’s achievement in making significant contributions to an increase in U.S. exports,” Patel says. He calls it “the highest honor given to U.S. exporters.”

The award was presented to Patel by U.S. Department of Commerce Secretary Gina Raimando at a ceremony in July. “This honor is a testament to your hard work exporting your products and services to the global market, and your remarkable resilience during the pandemic,” Raimando said in remarks to the six companies honored.

Raimondo continued, “Today’s E Awards winners contributed to nearly $1.5 billion of exports in goods and services from 2018 through 2021.”

One of the other five winners was Florida-based Montachem International, a plastic and polymers distributor that, among its other business units, “has a program in Haiti to clean up plastics from streets and beaches and recycle them into desks for students,” Raimondo said.

Regarding MKG, she added, “Another E-Award winner that knows a thing or two about recycling is MGK International, which exports scrap metals and polymers.”

On its website, MKG describes itself as part of the Mumbai-based Mehta Trading Co. Group (MTC). Its MGK International business unit was established in July 2007. “During the short span of time, the company has made rapid strides,” the company says. “From a humble beginning we have already achieved a volume of 30,000 tons a month of metal scrap exports to India and the Far East, primarily from the East Coast of the U.S.”