Trademark Metals Recycling opens new Florida facility

Trademark Metals Recycling LLC (TMR), Tampa, Florida, has opened its advanced metal recovery facility in Sumter County, Florida.

TMR and Sumter County Economic Development held a ribbon-cutting ceremony last month to open the facility, with dignitaries from the Sumter County Board of County Commissioners, the city of Bushnell, Florida, and other partners in attendance.

The 100,000-square-foot facility encompasses several buildings, and Sumter County says years of planning and cooperation between TMR’s management team, Sumter County Economic Development, SECO Energy and the city of Bushnell went into its development.

TMR invested approximately $150 million in the facility, not including the land purchase. The facility employs 67 staff members across two shifts and works with various contractors to meet its operational needs, Sumter County says. 

The facility will process auto shredder residue (ASR) generated by TMR's internal shredding operations.

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“We are very fortunate to have a partner such as TMR investing in our community,” Vice Chairman Jeffrey A. Bogue says. “The technology that TMR is bringing to this community will create long-term high-paying jobs while providing for sustainability in the recycling industry.”

TMR is a wholly owned subsidiary of The David J. Joseph Co. (DJJ), Cincinnati, which is part of Nucor Corp’s family of companies.

Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Nucor and its affiliates manufacture steel and steel products, with facilities in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Nucor, through DJJ, also brokers ferrous and nonferrous metals, pig iron and hot briquetted iron/direct reduced iron; supplies ferroalloys; and processes ferrous and nonferrous scrap.

This article was updated Nov. 20 to include additional information from TMR.