Metal recycling · Alliance, Ohio
Built. Honest. American.
Carpenter Metal Solutions has spent over 40 years buying, trading, selling and melting every grade of ferrous and non-ferrous metal, and showing the people we buy from what their metal is actually worth.
Chapter one · The yard
This is our yard.
Six acres in Alliance, Ohio. You are flying it right now. The wheel is the camera.
Rail on the north line. Ferrous in rows. Non-ferrous under roof. A certified scale at the gate.
Chapter two · The metal
High-temperature alloys are the house specialty.
Inconel, Monel, Hastelloy, high-nickel bearings and buttons. We buy them by chemistry, not by guess, and ship them to the specialty consumers who pay for what they really are.
High-nickel bearing scrap · sorted · Alliance warehouse
Ferrous moves in volume.
Shred feed, heavy melt, plate and structural, turnings. Weighed on certified scales and shipped direct to the mill, which is why the numbers work.
Shred feed · Alliance yard, north rows
Copper, brass, aluminum, every day.
Bare bright to Christmas lights, red brass to radiator ends, sheet to extrusion. Over 200 grades priced daily, posted at the scale and on this site.
Aluminum + mixed non-ferrous · staged for shipment
The specimen drawer.
A few of the 200 grades that cross the scale. Every one photographed in our own yard.
UBC, baledUsed beverage cans · densified on site
1100 fin stockClean production aluminum · crated
Turnings, briquetted380 aluminum · dry, puck-pressed
6061 plate + dropsSheet, plate and clip · palletized
Wire rod, coiledSteel rod · certified heats
The analyzerXRF chemistry on the spot · no guessingChapter three · The deal
We show you what your metal is worth. Then we pay it.
Certified weighing, transparent grading and direct mill shipments mean more of the check ends up with the person who owned the metal. That is the whole model, and it is why our suppliers stay for decades.
| Bare bright copper | $5.18 /lb |
| #1 copper | $5.08 /lb |
| Red brass solids | $4.14 /lb |
| Clean aluminum wheels | $1.09 /lb |
The full board is public: Get today's prices
Chapter four · The people
Metal is the business. People are the company.
No phone tree, no ticket queue. When you call the yard, a person who knows metal picks up, and most of them have been doing this a long time.
Gregg Carpenter Sr.
PresidentIn the commercial side of metal since 1986: scale buyer, smelter president, and every seat between. Founded CMS in 2003. A disabled Naval veteran, and the company is certified veteran-owned.
gcarpenter@carpentermetal.comLisa Carpenter
Corporate SecretaryAn officer of the company and the other half of this family business. Gregg's childhood sweetheart; together they have 4 children and 22 grandchildren, with another on the way.
lisa@carpentermetal.comJason Pihlblad
Commercial ManagerThe industrial face of the company. Runs commercial accounts and scrap programs for manufacturers; if you run a plant and wonder what your scrap is really worth, Jason is your first call.
jason@carpentermetal.comMichael Mulcahy
Plant Operations ManagerRuns the yard. Processing, maintenance and transportation all report through him; if it moves in Alliance, Michael scheduled it.
michael@carpentermetal.comCecilia Martell
Operations Administration ManagerRuns the office day to day, from tickets to paperwork to keeping the whole operation organized. The newest member of the team.
cecilia@carpentermetal.comEric Call
Scale OperatorThe face at the certified scale. Weighs every inbound load and makes sure the ticket says exactly what crossed it.
e.call@carpentermetal.comZach Braho
Non-Ferrous SupervisorRuns the non-ferrous warehouse: copper, brass, aluminum and the specialty alloys, sorted and verified before they ship.
Jimmy Dowdy
Ferrous SupervisorRuns the ferrous side of the yard: the shears, the torch, and the rows of steel headed direct to the mills.
David Dowdy
Lead DriverHeads the truck fleet. Containers placed, swapped and hauled on the schedule the customer was promised.
Chapter five · The word
Why we do this
Our purpose is to honor God by creating an environment where individual men and women may join together to allow our life purposes to change the world through recycling.
That line has been on the wall since the beginning. It is a family company, it runs on straight talk, and it treats the person at the scale the way we would want to be treated.