Recycling company opening processing center in Monroe County

Alpha Recycling, a catalytic converter and scrap metal recycler, recently selected Monroe County to build a processing center and expand its operations.

Currently, the company has processing centers in New York City and Trenton, N.J. The new facility is necessary to accommodate the company’s growth and allow it to serve additional areas.

The company purchased a site in Stroudsburg Borough that was owned by Re-Earth of Stroudsburg. The site has three 4,000-square-foot buildings.

Alpha Recycling plans to invest $4 million to construct an additional 20,000-square-foot building on the site and renovate the three existing structures. The company also will purchase equipment.

The project is expected to create 30 new, full-time jobs.

The Department of Community and Economic Development submitted a proposal for $60,000 in Job Creation Tax Credits to be distributed upon creating the new jobs and a $100,000 Pennsylvania First grant.

“We are grateful to Governor Wolf, the Governor’s Action Team, and the hard work of the Monroe County officials who helped in making our expansion a welcoming one,” the company said. “In return, the county has our full commitment in seeing through that the residents have not only good job opportunities but long-term careers. It is our goal to continue expanding so that more opportunities are created above those to which we are already committed.”