Mark Chazanow This is Me

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1. 1. Metallic Industries Scrap Metal Recycling

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   Published on: 9/30/2002   Last Visited: 11/7/2006

   Mark Chazanow, the company's 30-year-old president, declined to elaborate on those arrangements. As a new company that has built itself up altering manufacturers' scrap choices, Metallic knows something about how recyclers can scramble for one another's business.
   
   "We're in a very competitive market here in Dallas. The less I say about some things, probably the better for me," Chazanow observed.
   
   The company boosted its visibility recently when it became the winning bidder for five grades of forthcoming October-to-December scrap from Boeing Co. plants in Kansas.
   
   "This was the first time we bid on the big-ticket items with a mind to get them. I really worked on it and we got some aggressive places that wanted the (Boeing) product and wanted to buy it through us."
   
   Chazanow said his yard's nonferrous volume is 800 to 1,200 short tons a month, nearly all of it prompt industrial scrap. "Probably 65 percent of our business is export" via Houston and Long Beach, Calif., he said.
   
   The work of developing new customers is shared between Chazanow and Mark Wayne, an acquaintance who joined Metallic directly out of college two years ago.
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   He handles most of the transportation," Chazanow said.
   
   Chazanow's family is connected to an older Dallas scrap processor, Okon Metals Inc., where he sometimes worked on weekends during his high school years. He also spent five years at Commercial Metals Co., a major Dallas-based operator of scrapyards and steel mini-mills.
   
   Metallic Inc.'s facility, 90,000 square feet of indoor warehouse space, does shearing and baling. More elaborate processing requirements are farmed out.
   
   "Everything (we buy) hits the Dallas facility, gets inventoried and shipped out," Chazanow said.
   
   He said he thinks a second location is inevitable as Metallic expands its activities outside Texas. However, plans for a second location will wait until the economy improves. "I don't see doing it in the immediate future but I do see doing it in the near future," he said.
   
   In mid-2001, the company began going after electronic scrap. "I found out that material was very lucrative so I wanted to get into it." That line of business has a supplier base largely unrelated to Metallic's sources of nonferrous scrap, he said. Most of the electronic material is exported.
   
   Starting a business from scratch is exhausting, according to Chazanow. "The time, commitment, effort--it's endless," he said.
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   Mark Chazanow, co-owner of Metallic, believes the future of the industry will be indoors.
   
   The 90,000-square-foot building in Dallas, valued at $2 million by Chazanow, reduces the environmental hazards of operating a scrapyard. "It eliminates the trapping and treatment of water runoff," he said.
   
   Once rainwater comes in contact with metal, the stormwater must be filtered to protect against groundwater contamination and pollution of nearby waterways. Piles of scrap metal can contain oils and solvents that may be carried away by rainwater if they are not covered or cleaned.
   
   Chazanow believes that many in the industry were not in compliance with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency standards
   
   Metallic deals with nonferrous scrap metals received mainly from industrial generators around the country. It mainly processes and ships aluminum to smelters in the Midwest, but it also exports brass to India and copper to China. Chazanow said that Metallic delivers a better product to those countries because the bundles haven't been subjected to weather corrosion.
   
   Chazanow had five years' scrap metal experience before he teamed up with Seth Davidow, owner and president of Recore, to start Metallic. "Personnel has tripled and profits have quadrupled," Chazanow said. "We're growing every month."