
Leading provider of scrap metal recycling, scrap iron removal, and scrap handling services for industrial, commercial, and residential customers.
Merkel Metal Recycling Division is the leading scrap metal recycling center in Northeast Missouri. We specialize in scrap metal removal, acting as a reliable scrap metal buyer and offering scrap metal dumpsters to handle jobs of all sizes. Our full service recycling center provides purchasing, sorting, processing, marketing, and trucking of scrap metal for industrial, commercial, and residential customers. We build our business on honesty and integrity, with the utmost commitment to our customers, and a level of expertise which enables us to meet the needs of our industrial and commercial accounts.

Comprehensive Metal Recycling Services in the Tri-State Area by Merkel Metal Recycling Division
Merkel Metal Recycling Division currently services hundreds of customers within a 50 mile radius of Palmyra, Missouri. This includes northeast Missouri, west-central Illinois and southeast Iowa. Our experienced team handles everything from scrap handling to scrap iron processing, ensuring efficient service for all types of metal recycling needs.
Merkel Metal Recycling Division is dedicated to accessing each particular job and/or customer's needs and completing the job in a timely manner to best serve you, the customer. With our innovative equipment and our many resources, we are able to serve the customer’s needs at their locations, whether it be the removal of large amounts of scrap metal or large single items not feasible for transportation as a whole. With our variety of scales, we have the ability to meet the demand of the general-public whether it is 5 lbs. of aluminum cans or a 20 ton semi-trailer load.
MERKEL IS A BUYER OF ALL FERROUS AND NON-FERROUS METALS. PREPARED FORM AND UNPREPARED FORM.
Whether you’re selling small quantities or large loads, our scrap metal recycling team efficiently processes and purchases materials using advanced equipment.
NON-FERROUS METALS
· Aluminum Cans
· Aluminum
· Copper
· Brass
· Stainless Steel
· Die Cast
· Lead. Starters / Alternators
FERROUS METALS
· Scrap Auto Bodies
· Appliances
· Tin
· #2 Steel
· #1 Steel (Plate & Structural)
· Cast Iron (All Types)
· Busheling
· Punchings