The Liberty House Group has launched a metal recycling business, Liberty Metal Recycling (LMR), as a major step towards the achievement of its Greensteel vision to create a competitive and sustainable steel sector in the UK.

LMR will develop a network of advanced collection and processing facilities for both ferrous and nonferrous metals across the UK, U.S. and continental Europe, and the new company will be led by two of the most widely experienced and respected figures in the global metal recycling industry.

Tom Bird, previously of SIMS and Van Dalen will head up the UK and U.S. parts of the new enterprise while Matthijs de Jong, formerly with Euro Scrap, TSR Recycling and the Alba Group, will lead the operation in mainland Europe.