UNIVERSAL RECYCLING COMPANY

Universal Recycling Company (URC) was founded by Alfred Loewenthal in 1937 in Johannesburg as A Loewenthal Metals (ALM) up until 1954 where the company operated in Fordsburg, after which it moved to Industria on the Western side of the city where it still is to this day. In 1976, Alfreds son David Loewenthal join the company. In 1982, ALM installed the first scrap metal shredder in South Africa and In 1988 ALM went into a joint venture with the Cape Gate Group (CG )with a larger ferrous shredder. Universal Recycling Company was formed in 1992... Universal Recycling Company is a scrap metal recycling company, processing and trading non-ferrous scrap metal.