Company: SEAH
Filing Date: 2025-07-24
Form Type: DRS
Source: 0001213900-25-067275
Chunk: 79

Company: Seahawk Recycling Holdings, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-07-24
Form: DRS
Chunk 79
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 like aluminum, copper, zinc, and lead, so they can substitute for virgin ore in subsequent manufacturing cycles. The goal is to return these metals to a raw -materialstate without materially degrading their mechanical or chemical properties, enabling them to be reused indefinitely. Main Purpose and Goals of Metal Recycling •Resource conservation: Metals are finite in the Earth’s crust; recycling preserves primary ore reserves. •Energy and carbon savings: Producing secondary metals typically consumes less energy and emits proportionally fewer greenhouse gases than primary production, conforming with the global trend of attaining carbon neutrality •Economic efficiency: Scrap becomes a tradable commodity that lowers input costs, stabilizes supply, and supports domestic manufacturing. •Waste minimization: Diverts end -of -lifeproducts from landfills and curbs the environmental footprint of extraction and beneficiation. •Supply -chainsecurity: By closing material loops, nations and firms reduce exposure to geopolitical risks tied to mining and concentrate production. Source: The Frost & Sullivan Report 57 Value Chain Source: The Frost & Sullivan Report The upstream segment originates with scrap generators across industrial, commercial, and residential sectors. Industrial generators include manufacturing facilities, construction and demolition contractors, and automotive dismantlers who produce process scrap, obsolete equipment, and structural materials. Commercial generators encompass retail businesses, office complexes, and service providers disposing of appliances, Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (“HVAC”) systems, and electronic equipment. Residential sources contribute through municipal collection programs and individual consumers delivering materials to collection points. Primary collectors form the critical first link, including independent scrap dealers, peddlers, and municipal waste management entities who gather materials directly from generators. These collectors interact with scrap yards and metal merchants who aggregate volumes from multiple sources, perform initial sorting by metal type and grade, and prepare materials for sale to processors. The midstream segment encompasses both direct processors and intermediary traders who coordinate metal recovery operations. Direct processors operate scrap processing and metal recovery facilities that transform collected materials into specification -gradecommodities through mechanical processing including shredding, magnetic separation, eddy current systems, and sensor -basedsorting to segregate ferrous from non -ferrousstreams and remove contaminants. Alongside these direct processors, metal trading companies and processing intermediaries play a crucial coordinating role. These firms purchase already sorted or processed scrap materials from suppliers. They maintain relationships with dismantling and demolition contractors, and processing facilities who perform the physical work under service agreements. These intermediaries focus on procurement, quality management, and market development. Their value proposition