Catalytic converter recycling company opening Stroudsburg processing center

Alpha Recycling, a New York-based recycler of catalytic converters and other scrap metals, is expanding with a new processing center in Stroudsburg.

The company’s $ 4 million investment in the facility is expected to create 30 new, full-time jobs.

The Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development offered Alpha a $100,000 Pennsylvania First grant and $60,000 in Job Creation Tax Credits to be distributed upon the creation of the new jobs.

Because of growth at its full-scale processing centers in the Bronx, New York and in Trenton, New Jersey, the company needed a third recycling center.

The company located a site in Stroudsburg, owned by Re-Earth of Stroudsburg Inc., that has three 4,000-square-foot buildings.

Alpha will be using the funds from the state to help offset the cost of the construction of a 20,000-square-foot addition to one of the three existing structures on the site. It will be renovating all three buildings, making site development improvements and purchasing necessary equipment.

According to a press release from the governor’s office, Alpha’s proprietary technology allows it to source catalytic converters from suppliers.

After processing catalytic converters, Alpha customers are paid for the reclaimed precious metals and the precious metals are then reused in new catalytic converters of newly manufactured vehicles among other products.

Alpha also purchases and processes other scrap metals such as rims, starters, alternators, AC compressors, batteries, aluminum, copper and other items.