Trades Contractors Can Save Big By Recycling Metal—Here’s How
Learn how trades contractors can save on waste disposal and turn scrap metal into profit with Richmond Steel’s metal recycling services
Alberta’s Energy Transition: Recycling A Coal Mine Into Cash
Richmond Steel transforms decommissioned coal mines into cash through safe, eco-friendly mine reclamation—recovering valuable materials in Alberta’s energy transition.
How a Dragline Excavator in Northern Alberta Was Safely Demolished
Richmond Steel safely demolished a massive dragline excavator, maximizing metal recovery while minimizing environmental impact.
Clean Up, Cash In: How a Boneyard Cleanup Helps Your Bottom Line
Learn how boneyard cleanup can turn cluttered sites into valuable assets, minimize environmental risks, and maximize scrap metal recycling for cost recovery.
How to Mitigate Key Safety Risks: Building Demolition of Mines, Oil & Gas Facilities
Some careers are much riskier than others: stuntman, rodeo, volcano tour guide. Unfortunately, that list of high-risk careers also includes almost every job related to the mining, quarrying, and oil and gas industry. In 2021, the fatal injury rate for the mining industry overall was 14.2 per 100,000 full-time workers. [...]
How Scrap Metal Is Salvaged and Sorted On-Site Using Our Techniques and Heavy Equipment
There are plenty of reasons to demolish an industrial facility: age of the structure, new technologies, changes in industry location. But even though a building is at the end of its life, all of the scrap metal inside is ready to be used again. It just needs to be recovered, [...]
The Valuable Metals & Materials That Can Be Recovered From Your Mine, Refinery or Power Plant
If you’re an archaeologist, you get to jump into tombs and find forgotten treasures. If you’re a geologist, you get to break open geodes and uncover hidden gems. And if you’re Richmond Steel, you get to salvage buildings and recover valuable metals. (We don’t always feel like Indiana Jones, but [...]
Lead Paint Removal: Our Hazardous Waste Disposal & Abatement Process During Demolition
If you lived in the 1800’s, there’s a good chance your bedroom wallpaper would have contained arsenic. Those toxic ink particles and vapors would lazily float through the air, and slowly accumulate inside your body. It wouldn’t have been long before you joined the growing list of mysterious illnesses being [...]
The Role of Scrap Metal Recycling in the Circular Economy
Global demand for metals is surging, driven by their essential role in critical industries such as construction, automotive, and electronics. Given their widespread use and the finite nature of metal resources, sustainable resource management is more crucial than ever. In response to growing concerns about environmental degradation and resource depletion, [...]
Preparing for Your Project: Health & Safety Risks for Demolition Crews
Every demolition site is unique. Sometimes, even twin buildings with the exact same layout will behave and fall in different ways, as their structure or ground conditions might differ slightly. Given this, safe methodologies based on experience can be employed in similar settings. Understanding the common hazards present in demolition [...]