THE FAMILY BUSINESS

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J&B Metals @ The Coalface

Specialising in industrial and commercial scrap metal removal, recycling and disposal, J&B Metals is a family business dating back to humble beginnings in 1998.

Brian and Jenny Bosden started their business on the Central Coast in 1998. Brian was working in new steel sales selling new steel products and he saw a gap in the market.

He wondered what was happening with steel scrap products and site cleanups. So, Brian and Jenny took a chance and started J&B Metals.

“Dad would go around to big companies in the area and do site projects and clean ups.

“After a few years they realised they needed to give their company a permanent presence in the industrial area and so they moved to the Hunter Valley and bought the land here in Mt Thorley that is still our headquarters today,” said Brian and Jenny’s daughter Jess.

“The business started small with a shed, just one excavator and a weighbridge. As they took on more and more work, gradually it grew.

“My husband Scott and I came into the business 12-and-a-half years ago working our way from the bottom up. There are no jobs that we treated as below us or too difficult – we’re out there with the team, grinding, sorting, operating machinery and whatever needs to be done.”

J&B Metals small and dedicated team is like a family. They all genuinely care about each other’s welfare, which means they are all vigilant in providing a safe work environment where unnecessary risks are not accepted.

“Our staff members have been with us for quite a long time which can be hard to come by these days and affords us a level of reliability and dedication to delivering projects that you simply can’t achieve with fast turnover.”

With J&B Metals located right in the heart of coal mining country, Jess expressed the importance of safety. It is key to their business that all the equipment is mine spec and everyone who works for them is certified and qualified to go onto a mine site.

“Because redundant machinery, breakdowns, and bone yards get pushed to the side and forgotten, there tends to be a bit of a grey area as to who is responsible for dealing with them. Frequently the people who end up with the job of cleaning up years of accumulated junk and scrap don’t know where to start. We help to break the job down and guide them through it. I meet with them onsite and run through our process, mapping out the priorities and offering step by step clean up solutions.

“Our current focus is big site cleanups in the mining industry. There are so many redundant trucks and machinery sitting around on sites, taking up room and rusting away. We go to the site and dismantle machinery, cutting out and salvaging parts that the site wants to keep, tidying things up and disposing of metal waste.

J&B Metals
Brian and Jenny Bosden.

“We get machinery down to a manageable size, transport it off site and recycle it appropriately. We generally provide all the machinery for this process, including our 16 tonne forklift, 35 tonne excavator, oxycutters, semi tippers, flattop trucks, everything that we need to do the job.

“We remove and recycle track pads from D10 or D11 dozers, whole dump bodies, tanks, conveyors – anything metal that needs dismantling we can tackle.

“We do clean ups everywhere and are equipped to tackle just about anything.”

In addition to staffed site cleanups, J&B Metals also provides regular metal waste removal with recycling bins. They’re a great way for businesses to keep workshops and carparks trip free and get rid of coils and castings, swarf, brass fittings, mechanical components, computer cables and drill heads.

The site cleanups include removing anything from electrical transformers to large scale plumbing and heating components and construction scrap. J&B Metals have recently also scrapped 996 Liebherr excavators, truck bodies, underground mining machinery and dragline buckets.

The team can also strip decommissioned power lines and remove infrastructure including stainless tanks and washery tanks.

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