RECYCLING ROLE MODELS

摘要

They have been called scrap industry leaders, pioneers, and innovators. They have helped build their father's small scrap business into a thriving third-generation family company of nearly 400 employees at a dozen locations. They have supported their communities and served the scrap industry's associations at the highest levels. For all of this and more, they recently received the first two Lifetime Achievement Awards given by ISRI. They axe brothers Seymour and Stuart Padnos of Louis Padnos Iron & Metal Co. Inc. (Holland, Mich.), and the above distinctions are the natural result of their 116 years of combined experience in and service to the scrap recycling industry. That experience and service dates back to 1946 when the Padnos brothers began working full-time at their family's scrap business. But the beginning of their success story really traces back to their father, Louis Padnos, founder of the company.