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Supplying metals and plastics to your specifications, with support and guidance from concept to delivery, for more than 40 years.
Recycle your metal
Schupan Industrial Recycling provides scrap management strategies, collection, processing and sales of ferrous and non-ferrous metals for industry and small business.
Asset Management
We’re vertically integrated, recycling & manufacturing veterans. Your risk mitigation is our priority. Your environmental compliance is our promise.
Beverage container processing
Schupan Recycling is the largest independent processor of used beverage containers in the nation. Schupan’s facilities process all aluminum, PET plastic and glass from deposit containers, as well as other recyclables generated from the industry. Its logistics partner, UBCR, LLC, services containers from Michigan’s largest retailers. Both are integral to the success of Michigan’s Bottle Bill.
Materials trading
Are you looking to buy or sell Non-ferrous metal, UBCs or Plastic? With over 50 years in the industry, Schupan knows buying and selling metals & plastics inside and out.
SustainAbility™ services
Your green solutions partner for sustainable event, venue and community programs. We design experiences by creating, collaborating, communicating and cultivating your custom-made event, venue and community SustainAbility™ programs.
Careers
Schupan is a talent-based organization. We believe that selecting individuals based upon their unique talents and abilities results in a workforce where people naturally perform their best, to the benefit of both the individual and the organization.
Improving the communities where we live & work
We believe in investing in the communities where we live and work. To that end, Schupan is actively involved in supporting local education, athletics, cultural and relief programs, as well as national charities working to improve and saving lives.
About us
Not just a scrap yard.
Incorporated in 1968 by Nelson L. Schupan, Schupan & Sons has grown from a 6-person scrap metal recycler to an over-500-employee metals and plastics business specializing in industrial and electronics recycling, fabrication and distribution, beverage container processing and materials trading. The company has 15 locations throughout Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois.
Schupan’s formula for success has been simple: to treat their customers and employees as they would wish to be treated.
Schupan & Sons, Inc. believes in giving back to the communities that provide opportunities for its employees and in building relationships that add value to their customers. Honored with various community-based and national awards, Schupan & Sons, Inc. leads the list of top companies to work for and to do business with.
“Attracting talented, committed people who believe in our mission, and then investing in those people has made all the difference. ‘The team with the best army wins,’” Marc Schupan, CEO of the company, said, “and Schupan has the best army. The key is hiring good people who are committed to our customers and who will continually make improvements.”
As a third-generation, family-owned business, Schupan & Sons, Inc. is poised for long-term success.
On being well-positioned for the future, Marc Schupan said, “For fifty years, this company has anticipated the diverse and changing needs of the metals and plastics business. As Wayne Gretzky, the famous hockey player said, ‘I don’t go where the puck is; I go where it is going to be.’”