About our Company

  • Born in 1997 and adopted by the present management in 2010, Rustivia Metals is now an established dynamic company dealing in ferrous and non-ferrous scrap metals using new technology and methods.

    Rustivia Metals regards recycling as an opportunity to introduce cost effective alternatives to expensive landfill disposal and to promote an impressive environmentally responsible message for customers and employees.
    Our main processing facility is at Germiston where we operate out of 8000 square meters of operating space.


  • Mission statement

  • Providing the best price for each commodity purchased and also to enable the suppliers to sell at their convenience utilising Rustivia Metals efficient scheduling and prompt collection services.

  • Gaining prominence and making a name for itself among varied customers through experience, expertise, and innovations in handling, managing, and buying all types of metal scrap.

  • Recovering, sorting, processing and commercially marketing and managing a considerable percentage of recyclable waste in the Gauteng Province and surrounding regions.

  • Expanding our operational footprint in to all regions of South Africa and large parts of Africa and sharing knowledge and expertise in partnership with corporate and other entitles in Africa and thereby benefit the region as a whole and furthering Africa’s development.

  • Man power and equioment

  • To complement its range of services, Rustivia Metals has skilled and semiskilled workers who possess the expertise to process scrap metals using specialised equipment which the Company has deployed at every step starting from collection to processing and final packaging of the products. Rustivia Metals owns a fleet of skip trucks and crane trucks, 250 collection bins, 5 forklifts, cutting torches, lancing, plasma cutters, bailers and grabbers and weighbridge facilities.

  • Health and safety policy

  • Rustivia Metals ensures that it takes all reasonable and practicable steps to plan for and promote healthy and safe working conditions for our employees and to ensure the health and safety of contractors, customers and the general public who are affected by our work activities. All the workers including staff are provided with safety clothing and gear to ensure their personal safety on the premises.

  • black economic empowerment

  • Rustivia Metals is committed to the State’s cause of empowerment of the previously economically disadvantaged. The Rustivia workforce, which mainly comprises of the previously economically disadvantaged people, is actively involved in the day to day running of the business. The Company endeavours to encourage and promote a positive working culture for its workforce through team building measures.