General Info

Acme Refining, established in 1971, is a family-owned business offering services to the scrap metal industry. The company builds its own guaranteed leak-less equipment that include luggers, drums, pallet boxes and sealed roll-off boxes, monitored constantly by an in-house welding division. The firm utilizes its outlying scrap yards as transfer stations where its trucks can move forward with scrap pickups and drop-offs, without retracing their routes. It has expertise in complying with environmental requirements, and offers machinery removal, paper and cardboard recycling, liquid coolant and oil removal, and weld breakdowns of machinery. The firm uses state-of-the-art radiation monitoring system to scan every load of scrap entering its facility. It dumps all steel and aluminum turnings onto cement pads at its nonferrous warehouse. Acme Refining guarantees weight integrity through its scale programs, and is located in Chicago.