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Windsor: Maxwell Zalev of Windsor, Ontario, was recently appointed to the board of directors of the Windsor Port Authority. Mr. Zalev, who began his career as a staff accountant for Coopers and Lybrand, is acting chief executive officer of Windsor Canada Utilities Ltd., and acting general manager of the Windsor Utilities Commission. He holds a bachelor’s degree in commerce and finance from the University of Toronto, an executive M.B.A. from the University of Western Ontario, and attended Harvard University’s negotiation program in 1988 and 1997. Mr. Zalev was formerly president and chief executive officer of Zalev Brothers Limited and has provided extensive financial advice to the many boards and committees on which he has sat during the last 30 years, including, Windsor Canada Utilities Ltd., City of Windsor Audit Committee and the Hotel – Dieu Grace Hospital Committee.
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Zalev Advisors Inc
5880 Riverside Dr E
Windsor, ON N8S 1B3, Canada
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“Out of Sight out of Mind?” Water Main problem known in 1994 and again in 2002
Posted on July 31, 2007 by Chris Schnurr | 15 Comments
Thank goodness Gord Henderson came to our rescue. Truly, I was a little worried because in his Saturday column I was expecting a roasting of Mr. Zalev and Mayor Eddie Francis over their statements that the water main levy had been used to fund the operations of the Windsor Utilities Commission as covered by the A-Channel and Windsor Star.
I was expecting the sewage to hit the fan instead of the benign story of Canada’s penal system.
Motor City Power House – Scrap Industry News
8/6/2001
A willingness to innovate coupled with substantial capital backing has helped Ferrous Processing & Trading Co. emerge as Detroit’s leading scrap processor.
Things are done a little bit differently at Ferrous Processing & Trading Co.
Some of the differences might be considered superficial, such as naming major pieces of equipment after prominent Civil War-era Americans.
But other unique approaches adopted by the Detroit-based scrap company have contributed to its tremendous growth and success in one of America’s largest scrap markets.
Doing things differently is not just a matter of circumstance, according to Ferrous Processing & Trading Co. (FP&T) CEO Jeffrey N. Cole. “Our firm is actuated by intellectual restlessness,” says Cole.
The intellectual restlessness he refers to begins with the story of Cole’s own entry into the scrap recycling industry.
From the Courtroom to the Scrap Yard
While to the casual observer few places may look dirtier and messier than a scrap yard, to Cole the industry represents a cleaner, purer environment than his previous work setting.
Cole is an attorney who practiced in the Detroit area for several years before deciding he wanted to walk away from the daily practice of law. “I was a bit disillusioned with all the technical hair-splitters and liars in the law,” Cole states. “I couldn’t live with the hypocrisy that was required in that profession.”
His disillusionment with the legal world came at the same time he was helping his father-in-law write up a contract to buy out a former partner in a scrap metal business. “He asked me what I was going to do with the rest of my life,” remembers Cole. “Three or four days later I decided to leave the law.”
Cole’s introduction to the scrap metal business came in 1979 with Alport Scrap in southwest Detroit. His initial impressions of the state of the scrap industry were not entirely positive.
“I remember looking out the window at Alport, watching two shears operating in the rain,” recalls Cole. “My thought was that all we were doing was turning long dirty stuff into short dirty stuff. How could you make clean steel with all that substandard content?”
The lack of contracts—or the way they were disregarded if they did exist—also puzzled Cole. “They only lasted as long as they were convenient for one side or the other,” he says, adding that industry-wide the situation has not changed a great deal.
“I also saw management techniques that I wasn’t too sure about,” he says of his early years observing the scrap industry. “I saw things like indifference, greed, and a disregard for talented personnel,” he says.
“What really surprised me was how little technology and acumen had actually manifested itself in this business,” he says of his initial thoughts on the industry.
While he was observing, Cole was also planning and testing out new ideas. Operations at Alport were improved, and in 1985 the company was able to purchase one of its largest competitors and triple its annual tonnage processed.
“Since then, we have grown our company through experimentation and innovation,” says Cole.
Investments Provide Healthy Returns
Jeff Cole is the first to admit that most good ideas also require follow-up in the form of capital spending. “We have made the investments necessary to generate the profits,” he states.
The history of FP&T (and its predecessor and subsidiary companies) can be marked by multi-million dollar capital investment projects that have helped the company grow to its present size.
Many of the company’s largest pieces of equipment have Civil War-era names attached to them. It is a practice that Cole, a Civil War buff, started in 1986, when the company installed what Cole calls “the first super heavy-duty shredder.” The large shredder was dubbed the “Abraham Lincoln.” Says Cole, “we hoped that, like the Great Emancipator, it would free us of some competitive bonds.”
Cole runs through a list of dates when other major equipment installations took place:
-The “Robert E. Lee” steel granulator was installed in 1988. The granulator—which the company also calls a “nuggetizer”—produces product so fine in quality that it has found an integral place in the secondary steel making and casting activities of a score of FP&T’s customers. The benefits pertain to temperature control, carbon control, and the cost of ferroalloy utilization.
-In 1993, the caster scrap and degassing scrap produced by the nuggetizer had proven so popular that FP&T commissioned a second unit. The “J.L. Chamberlain” was christened to produce more of the premium product. “We created a product that we anticipated consumers of scrap would need,” Cole says of FP&T’s successful nuggetizing operations.
-In 1996, FP&T opened a greenfield shredder site on Strong Street in Detroit that houses a 120″ Newell Mega-Shredder. The “U.S. Grant,” according to Cole, is the highest output producing auto shredder (of high quality product) operating in the nation. The $15 million machine processes 30,000 tons per month of marketable materials.
-This fall, the company is installing its second a Harris 6034 ferrous baler and two electric equilibrium pedestal cranes manufactured by Hawco Manufacturing Co. of Slaughter, La. and the French company Seram. The new baler is the fourth large baler operated by FP&T. The company also operates and additional Harris 6034 and two Harris 4034s.
Available capital for both equipment and acquisitions received a boost in 1997, when Detroit’s Anthony Soave purchased a 50% equity interest in Ferrous Processing and Trading Co. Soave is the former owner of City Management, Michigan’s largest waste hauling firm. When that company was purchased by USA Waste this February, Soave began devoting more time and energy to the other holdings in his Soave Enterprises fold, including FP&T.
Soave Enterprises executive vice president Yale Levin says FP&T is positioned to become the primary—or even exclusive—scrap supplier to several mills within the Detroit region. “By putting the company together the way we have, and consolidating solely within this region, we now have more than enough material so they can use only our scrap at their mill, if they choose,” says Levin. He cites two Great Lakes region mini-mills and two large integrated mills, as well as a large foundry operated by one of the Big Three, as potential sole supplier targets.
And while the company’s name correctly implies that ferrous scrap is the primary commodity it handles, FP&T pays serious attention to the nonferrous side of its business as well. Its recent acquisition of the SLC Recycling site in Warren, Mich. (part of Zalev Metals Inc.) will add to its nonferrous tonnage. The company also continues to install new sorting equipment to maximize its return on nonferrous shred produced by its auto shredders. “FP&T is not content to produce a large tonnage of valuable commodities and then abdicate its ability to fully profit from it,” Cole remarks.
Talent Acquired Along with Capacity
As with all growing scrap companies in the 1990s, acquisition has been part of the FP&T growth strategy. And though Cole makes no secret that he favors operating with a lean staff, he has nonetheless made certain to retain key personnel from acquired companies.
-FP&T executive vice president of sales Fred Bause is a former independent scrap broker who joined up with FP&T in 1993. He initially served as president of the Ferrous Processing Group before the company’s operations were consolidated. He now coordinates all sales to the mills and foundries. One of Bause’s lasting contributions to the company was the research and design of a railroad-shipping terminal that has grown into a key part of FP&T’s transportation network. The company now moves 30,000 tons per month through the terminal, which is equipped with scales, radiation detection equipment, several cranes and several company-owned locomotives.
-Jan Hemme, an FP&T executive vice president, is the former owner of Victor Steel and Circle Metals, a specialty metals processor acquired by FP&T in 1994. His experience in procuring materials for investment quality foundries is utilized in a wider context by Ferrous Processing & Trading. He is now in charge of scrap procurement company-wide.
-Tony Benacquisto, executive vice president of operations, is the former owner of TBS Industries, purchased by FP&T in 1997. In his role, Benacquisto is one of the key people in researching new technology that may benefit the company. “We’re always looking for new equipment. It’s not uncommon for me to jump on a plane to Europe to take a look at a piece of equipment,” he notes. More commonly, however, Benacquisto is shuttling between the different sites in Detroit to gauge the status of processing operations.
-Most recently, Maxwell Zalev of Zalev Brothers Co. in Windsor, Ontario, has been named FP&T’s chief financial officer. Zalev’s years and training as an accountant who has also operated a scrap firm “was something we just didn’t have here,” says Yale Levin.
“I’m continuing in the role of president of the Canadian operations,” says Max Zalev, whose brother Dean will also remain an officer with the company. “The feeling was that the financial and administrative side of the business was something I’ve been involved in throughout my career. It really is a good fit.”
Cole has also procured talent from outside the scrap industry, such as FP&T vice president and quality manager Clarence Watts, who had worked in the quality field with automotive supplier companies. “His task has been to establish a system of experimentation to certify the chemistry and content of our product,” says Cole.
Measuring Quality and Output
Things may be done differently at FP&T, in part, because Cole and other officers do not spend a great deal of time studying the competition. “We’re relatively indifferent to what our competitors do—let them set their own goals,” says Cole.
Establishing internal goals and finding ways to surpass them has led Ferrous Processing & Trading Co. to take several steps that are not widespread within the industry.
The company scrutinizes the chemistry of its outbound scrap, taking samples not from individual bales or shred, but from steel melted within its own melt shop. A small induction electric furnace melts ferrous scrap samples a dozen times each day. According to quality manager Clarence Watts, 100 pounds of processed scrap is selected for each melt. Scrap produced from each major piece of processing equipment in the yard is used in different melts.
Spectrometer readings are then taken from ingots produced in the melt shop. The readings are recorded and tracked and ultimately published in a monthly “Outgoing Quality Report.” The report lists the presence—down to a thousandth of one percent—of 16 different elements in outbound ferrous scrap shipments. Thus, a consuming mill is able to track over time FP&T’s ability to control the copper, nickel, silicon or other residual constituents in its ferrous scrap.
“There are some consumers who are prepared to pay for value,” says Cole of his company’s ability to profit from this information-gathering process. “Having more effective processing equipment and being able to quantifiably add value to the product we handle has been crucial.”
The emphasis on quality measurement may be ahead of its time, according to Yale Levin of Soave Enterprises. “Many of the mills don’t yet know how to use the information,” Levin says of the monthly 75-page Outgoing Quality Report. “I believe that this company and its customers haven’t realized 10% of the benefit they can get from it.”
While growth alone may serve to show that the company’s methods are working, FP&T uses an additional yardstick to measure results. “In 1997, our company was processing about 850 tons a year with about 100 people,” he remarks. “It works out to more than 8,000 tons processed per man-year.”
Recent acquisitions have changed that equation. “Now we’re looking at processing 2.25 million tons this year with 385 people. That works out to about 5,750 tons per man-year. Within the next six months, this firm will be doing the job we’re doing with just under 300 people,” he remarks. “Our goal within 18 months is to reach a figure of 10,000 tons per man year. And we’ll reach that goal.”
A Different Model of Consolidation
Throughout 1997 and 1998, the actions of national consolidating companies drew a great deal of attention. But the momentum built by such coast-to-coast consolidators as Philip Services Inc., Recycling Industries Inc. and Metal Management Inc. has stalled. Philip is attempting to sell off its scrap assets, and the other two companies are to some extent on the defensive to show that their strategies will pan out.
Those who have long held that scrap is a local (or at most, regional) commodity have an ally in Jeff Cole. He calls his method of acquisition “concentric” and states that it is much more workable than what he calls the “dots-on-a-map” strategy.
“I’m confident that our model will work, because unlike the dots-on-a-map plans, our assumptions are not devoid of the possibilities of truly consolidating operations,” he states. He also sees it as an advantage that his company is focused on results produced “not to please the investment community, but to compete on the ground, out in the scrap yard.”
FP&T’s “concentric” acquisitions have occurred during the same time it has been investing in equipment to improve its operations internally. The company thus took advantage of the strong ferrous market of the early and mid-1990s to not only purchase new equipment, but also to acquire such companies as Victor Steel, Metal Alloys Corp., TBS Industries, Mason Iron & Metal, and its most recent and largest acquisition—that of Zalev Metals Inc.
Although new to FP&T, Max Zalev adheres to the same logic in regard to consolidation. “This is a regional consolidation, which makes a lot of sense.” He adds that, “with Soave Enterprises, we have a strong and solid financial base. That can’t necessarily be said of a lot of the other consolidators.”
Preparing for Turbulent Times
While FP&T can be pleased with its position in the region, the company’s officers are at the same time grimly realistic concerning the state of scrap and metal markets in the near future.
“American steel makers are being brutally assailed by imported competitive products,” says Cole. “Companies in the scrap processing industry are facing daunting global competition arising out of economies that are in deep distress,” he says of the effects of Asian and eastern European markets.
“Companies should be prepared for some very tough sledding,” adds Cole. “If we’re wrong, we’ll be pleasantly surprised. But if we don’t prepare and we’re faced with these challenges . . . well, I wouldn’t want to be in that position. The need to continue to increase efficiency has never been more intense.
If the track record established by Cole in the previous two decades is any indication, Ferrous Processing and Trading Co. will be among those suitably prepared for turbulence.
The author is editor of Recycling Today.
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Case Studies
Cyr Helps Zalev Build Scrap Metal Processing Plant
Cyr rehabs, installs press, revamps materials handling for steel industry supplier.
R. J. Cyr Co. has made a critical contribution to an iron and steel scrap processing plant that will serve North America’s needs well into the next century. R. J. Cyr Co. updated a cold briquetting press, installed equipment and rehabbed the existing materials handling systems.
Zalev Brothers Limited,Windsor, Ontario, buys steel turnings and cast iron borings, which it presses into briquettes. These are rail shipped to steel mini-mills, integrated steel producers, and foundries in six Canadian provinces, 33 U.S. states, and Mexico.
Late in 1995, ZBL started up a $1 million-plus state-of-the-art cold briquetting plant that delivers a superior product at a competitive price. The plant incorporates numerous features for protecting both workers and the environment, and has significant capacity to expand.
Says President Maxwell Zalev: “By the year 2000, the North American steel industry will increase net annual production capacity by 16 million tons. Eleven million of these tons will come from scrap. We’ll help meet that demand for scrap.”
“Nice problem to have”
Zalev has made briquettes since 1938. Its older facility has five small cold briquetting presses. The firm shipped about 25,000 tons of cold briquettes annually in 1994 and 1995. Additionally, operates a world class hot briquetting plant (its flagship operation) with capacity well in excess of 10,000 tons annually.
“With the new plant, we’ll expand to about 75,000 tons by 1999 and will still have capacity to accommodate future growth,” Zalev stated. “Excess capacity puts us in an excellent position to take advantage of the increased demand for ferrous scrap.”
The new press makes an improved briquette, which has an 8-in. diameter (vs. 4.25-in. for the product from the older presses), measures 7.5-in. thick (vs. 2.5 to 3-in.); and weighs 35 lbs. (vs. 10 lbs.). According to Zalev, the new briquette is denser and easier to handle; there’s also less breakage, and fewer fines.
Every year, ZBL buys about 200,000 tons of steel turnings and cast iron borings, mostly from the auto industry and its suppliers in the Windsor/ Detroit region. This scrap, which contains oil lubricant and some moisture, is trucked to ZBL’s 37-acre headquarters and stored.
Turnings and borings are difficult for mills to handle, but become more usable in briquette form. Briquettes cost less than other grades of scrap, but meet industry needs for iron units. This gives a price advantage.
ZBL zones off raw materials according to chemistry in its storage yard and performs quality control checks in its onsite lab. Briquette chemistry is precisely controlled.
“Our competitive edge is that we’re registered ISO-9002 and QS-9000,” says Zalev. “Ford has certified us Q1. We’re QE at Chrysler and Q1 at Rouge Steel. No other source beats us on quality.”
“Went straight to Cyr”
We, went straight to R. J. Cyr Co. ,”when it was ready in the autumn of 1994, to start planning the new facility,” says Zalev. “They’re reputable, reliable, and understand our business,” he stated. “They’ve done excellent work for us for many years*, so we have a great deal of confidence in them, and much respect.”
When the project began, ZBL had a Lindemann cold briquetting press in storage. “We purchased that press in England ten years ago at a very advantageous price,” says Zalev. It was nearly new.
To house the Lindemann press, ZBL built a 2,500 sq. ft. addition, which was completed in early 1995. Next, ZBL and R. J.Cyr Co. began the conveyor engineering.
The new plant has above-ground conveyors. “Raised conveyors are easier to run and maintain,” says Zalev. “Wastewater discharge is better, which minimizes environmental impact and, we don’t have anyone working in pits, which improves plant safety.”
“Working from a strong foundation”
According to Randy Cyr, R. J. Cyr Co. President, Zalev had 30-year old materials handling equipment that was “basically in good shape.” “We revamped it to work with the new press – made the bucket elevator taller, lengthened the scraper conveyor, and built chuting between the bucket elevator and the storage hopper.”
The materials handling system is stand-alone. R. J. Cyr Co. reconfigured one of the two bucket conveyors that fed ZBL’s older plant to serve the new press. Now, front end loaders in the storage yard dump raw materials into a receiving hopper. From there, it moves up the bucket conveyor and is chuted into a storage hopper from which the press is fed.
The project was successfully completed “without a major engineering endeavor or critical paths,” Cyr adds. “This required careful management by our engineering shop and field people. But work was completed on time. The plant is up and running – and producing briquettes.”
“You can readily see the differences between our old plant and the new one,” said Zalev. Now, PLCs govern critical processes; controls are state-of-the-art, assuring superior productivity and throughput. Even the lighting is better. The new cold briquetting plant takes us a long way toward our goal of being a world class metal recycler.”
* R. J. Cyr Co. has assisted Zalev Brothers Limited in projects of all types since the early 1960’s.
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BIG BUCKS: DETROIT RECYCLER ACQUIRES ZALEV
By: Jeffrey McCracken
August 03, 1998
DETROIT — Ferrous Processing & Trading Co. has acquired recycler Zalev Metals Inc. in a move that creates one of the largest scrap companies in the Midwest. The deal brings together two privately held recyclers, both with sales near $200 million and strong ties to the automotive and steel industries.
Ferrous Processing is based in Detroit; Zalev in nearby Windsor, Ontario.
The transaction also brings in Detroit businessman Anthony Soave, who will be the majority shareholder of Ferrous Processing.
Soave, who sold his Detroit waste-hauling company, City Management Corp., in January for $750 million, estimates he’s invested more than $100 million in Ferrous since getting involved with the company in 1996.
Ferrous owner Jeff Cole will remain CEO.
Cole is the other major investor in the company. Ferrous projects annual sales in excess of $400 million and will recycle 2.5 million tons of metal scrap annually.
Ferrous, with headquarters in a small office in west Detroit at its 25-acre scrap yard, will move to the offices of Soave Enterprises LLC, near the Detroit riverfront.
“This was an opportunity to buy one of the major scrap yards, and we went for it,” Soave said. “Jeff [Cole] is still running it. It’s just that the scrap business is getting more demands from its customers.
“It needs more capital and more management experience, and that’s where I saw an opportunity,” Soave said.
He said he probably will be named chairman or president of Ferrous, but they haven’t worked out those details. The two firms agreed to the acquisition July 30.
Zalev will retain its name but will be incorporated as a Ferrous subsidiary. Zalev President Max Zalev will remain in his position. His brother, Zalev Chairman Dean Zalev, also remains in his position.
Zalev Metals, founded in 1914, is a recycler of ferrous and nonferrous materials.
Zalev has about 220 employees at sites in Detroit, Flint, and Warren, Mich., and Windsor.
“This transaction allows us to combine Windsor and Detroit markets. We’re certainly now the largest in the area and one of the largest scrap companies in North America,” Max Zalev said.
Before the acquisition, Ferrous Processing had about 205 employees at six yards in Detroit and Pontiac..
“Everything is consolidating now. There are demands on the scrap yards to add value,” Soave said. “The steel industry is demanding it. Plus, I like this because it is in the city, and there are a lot of similarities between it and the waste business.”
He sold City Management to Houston-based USA Waste Services Inc., now operating as Waste Management Inc., after its merger last month with the larger company.
The acquisition would allow Ferrous to compete with foreign scrap companies and other competitors, Cole said.
“We think imports will continue to assail us, and we need to be able to effectively compete,” he said. “There are about 2,500 scrap recyclers in the country, and maybe 10 to 12 will dominate. We intend to be one of them.”
Layoffs are unlikely at either company, Cole said. The Zalev family will continue to oversee Zalev Metals from its Windsor office.
The deal was a cash transaction, but the two firms did not disclose the terms.
McCracken is a reporter with Crain’s Detroit Business.
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ZALEV REVS UP IN DETROIT
By: Jean Tarbett
August 11, 1997
WINDSOR, ONTARIO — Zalev Metals Inc., a Windsor-based scrap recycler, has purchased Warren, Mich.-based SLC Recycling Industries Inc. Zalev is trying to boost its activity in the Detroit area and expand through a series of acquisitions.
“There’s tremendous synergy between SLC’s operations in Detroit and Zalev’s nonferrous operations in Windsor,” said Maxwell Zalev, president of the company, which processes both ferrous and nonferrous metals for the steel and automotive industries. “The combination of the two companies make one of the largest nonferrous operations in the Detroit area.”
Zalev declined to give financial details about the acquisition and the companies but said SLC should roughly triple Zalev’s nonferrous operations.
The purchase won’t create many changes for SLC employees, he said. SLC will keep its name and its existing management.
“SLC has an excellent reputation, and we believe the SLC name stands for quality in nonferrous,” Zalev said. “We believe business will continue much in the same way as it has in the past.”
Buying SLC fits into a strategic expansion plan, Zalev said. Zalev Metals still is sifting through its purchasing options but has decided it will not restrict itself to the Windsor-Detroit area for future growth, Zalev said.
Other plans include installing a large shredder and increasing the capacity of a hot-briquette plant in Windsor. Construction of both will begin this fall, Zalev said.
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July/August 1995
Conference Coverage—CARI Extends Its Reach
The Canadian recycling industry’s annual convention provided a brief but dense examination of commodity trends, environmental developments, and association projects.
The range of topics affecting recyclers is ever-broadening, according to speakers at the annual convention of the Canadian Association of Recycling Industries (CARI) (Don Mills, Ontario ), held in June in Ottawa . Among the issues of importance to Canadian recyclers are dramatic shifts in steel production—especially new minimill capacity—and the expected privatization of CN rail, CARI President Maxwell S. Zalev of Zalev Brothers Ltd. (Windsor, Ontario), told the group. And CARI’s newfound “excellent” financial situation puts the association in a good position to help its members deal with these and other issues, such as problems with the federal goods and services value-added tax, use of shredder fluff as daily landfill cover, chlorofluorocarbon ( CFC ) regulations, and the shortage of railroad gondolas for scrap transport, Zalev reported.
CARI is working to expand its visibility and membership, Zalev noted, thanks in part to a government grant that is that is funding a few association projects, namely a public relations video on the role of Canadian recyclers, a paper evaluating the benefits of scrap metal recycling in Canada, and environmental operating guidelines for the industry.
CARI is also benefiting from a government-industry exchange program that will provide public funds to help the association expand its membership and government relations efforts. Len G. Shaw, former director of the resource processing industries branch of the federal Metals & Minerals Directorate ( Ottawa ), has been hired to take on this project.
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