CASE STUDY
FOUR GENERATIONS OF SALVAGE Allied Salvage Metals grows with savvy equipment acquisitions By SWR Staff
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or four generations, the Weinstein family has been steadily expanding its capabilities to provide recycling services to the lower mainland of British Columbia. The company offers recycling and salvage of ferrous, non-ferrous metals, wire and copper along with a automotive motor-breaking service. Founded by Isadore Weinstein in 1952, Allied Salvage Metals has evolved through several changes in location and equipment. Today, with facilities operating in the cities of Richmond and Squamish, Isadore’s great-grandson Ian Weinstein sees his growing fleet of equipment, which includes material handlers, baler/shears, cranes with grapples and magnets, forklifts, and skid steers among others, as an important turning point in the company’s history. He has been involved in the family business most of his life and now serves as director of operations alongside his father, Arthur.
loader, modified to move scrap. He notes that there were some purpose-built material handlers on the market at the time, but with no dealers or parts inventories stocked in the region, service support proved to be a challenge. Allied has occupied its current Richmond site location since 1991, starting with a small 1.25-acre property, later
doubling it with the purchase of an adjacent property Allied continued to grow steadily through the years. “We have a great crew that makes it happen; to keep the material moving,” Weinstein said. The increasing volumes processed and shipped through the yard drove expansion of the equipment fleet.
Growing capabilities The younger Weinstein recalls that the yard’s material handling needs were given to an old excavator, which was fitted with a boom & stick “that it could hardly handle”. Later, they added a log 28 www.solidwastemag.com
Allied Salvage relies on Sennebogen purpose-built equipment in the tight surroundings of British Columbia’s lower mainland.
