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SMS Completes Deal for All Star Metals, All Star Shredding

Published Aug. 15, 2012
By
Sean Griffey
renjith krishnan

Scrap Metal Services, LLC (SMS), a metals recycling company based in Burnham, Ill., has acquired the ship recycling company All Star Metals LLC (ASM) and All Star Shredding LLC (AS), both operating in Brownsville Tex.

The ship recycling company ASM was founded by Nikhil Shah in 2003, while All Star Shredding operates a Newell 98-104 auto shredder, which processes obsolete and industrial scrap. The facility is capable of producing 180,000 of shredded scrap per year. Both companies being acquired are managed by Nikhil, Nirav and Lopa Shah, all of whom will join SMS' management team and co...

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