Market & Metals

Scrap Metal Market Watch: June 2015

Scrap Metal Market Trends Scrap metal prices for crushed auto bodies have finally ceased declining monthly. We’ve seen a increase of 2.67% over the past month, a decline of 43.90% over the past year, and a decline of 52.90% over the past two years. Chart | Scrap Metal Market Trends

Is It Time to Call It “Quits”?

Look, nobody said it would be easy.  You’ve been together a long time and have countless memories.  You’ve gotten each other through the worst times and have been together for some of the best.  You’ve been overheated and revved up.  You’ve steered each other in the right directions, and sometimes got lost together.  Bottom line…no

For Some, It’s Hard to Say “Goodbye”

“I hated saying goodbye to my beloved car. The only thing that made it better was the feeling of knowing that it was going to help WYSO.” – Heather Bailey, Ohio It can be hard to say “goodbye” to a trusty and much-loved vehicle. What makes it easier is knowing that your car will support

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April Showers Bring May Flowers

You’ve heard this old adage before, but it’s really true!  At least the part about May bringing flowers is true.  At least here in our office it’s true. Every Tuesday, clients of the James L. Maher Center, like David Blank in the photo to the right, bring vases of flowers to employees in our office who participate

How to Steel a Bridge

The scrap metal industry at times gets a bad rap, whether it’s criminals trying to extract scrap metal out of an elementary school, or a church, or how about stealing an entire bridge?!  The negative public perception that exists of the scrap metal industry unfortunately isn’t going away even as the price of scrap metal declines and

Honoring Car Talk

My daughter was about 3 years old when we would drive across town on Saturday mornings and listen to Car Talk. I laughed and she enjoyed the fact that it seemed fun even if she didn’t understand it. She is finishing her second year of medical school now and has all of the podcasts so

Honda Civic Tops the 2014 List for UNICEF

Realizing he could support valuable programs and services by making a car donation to charity, a New York man did just that with his 2010 Hybrid Honda Civic in hopes of providing valuable funds for the U.S. Fund for UNICEF’s worthy programs.  What he didn’t realize was his donation would be the organization’s top-grossing vehicle

Chinese Farming Duo Transforms Scrap Metal into Art

Yu Zhilin, a farmer from Hengyang, China has capitalized on the popularity of the Transformers movie franchise in China with the aid of his son, Yu Lingyun. This father/son team, using only their ingenuity(as well as some instructions found while traversing the internet), and scrap auto parts are making waves globally for creating statues of Transformers’ mainstays Optimus Prime and

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In This Business We See the Good in People

Dad always said if you’ve got good news and bad news…finish with the good news. It leaves your listener feeling better. So, here it goes… The bad news is it’s becoming a challenge to remember that most people are good and that the world is a great, beautiful place filled with kind, helpful people. We’re

MA Woman Donates Car to American Cancer Society

A Local Donation A Massachusetts woman recently donated her car to the American Cancer Society in honor of cancer patients everywhere.    A survivor herself, Joanne remembers her personal fight to battle lung cancer.  It started in 2011 with an accidental discovery and unexpected diagnosis, followed by surgery to remove a malignant tumor.   Although it was