Nitin Gupta, CEO of India-based Attero, has helped build a company that harvests nonferrous and precious metals from small appliances and electronic scrap. Attero, which intends to export its business model abroad, also has announced a major investment to harvest rare earth elements from the secondary materials it processes.

Kamlesh Jain, board chair and managing director of Jain Metal Group, based in India, oversees a company that converts several types of nonferrous scrap sourced globally into secondary ingots. Jain provides insight into his company’s diverse operations and offers thoughts about the industry’s future in India and beyond.

Talking in mid-April, Jacqueline Lotzkar, president and CEO of CARI, or the Canadian Association of Recycling Industries, discusses taking on this new role and the challenges presented by the shifting trade environment.

Nanci Schuld, co-founder, president and chief operating officer at FE Trading Group LLC, discusses how she started in the industry, her company's mission and the adaptability of industry professionals.

Dhawal Shah of Metco Ventures, Mumbai, has built a nonferrous trading career while also being heavily involved in the BIR and India’s MRAI. He offers his perspective on global trade, India’s vibrant economy, government policies and recycling’s future.

Marcie Rodriguez, CEO of New Braunfels, Texas-based Comal Iron & Metals, is joined by Roger Rodriguez, director of operations, and Johnnie Rodriguez Jr., nonferrous manager, to discuss the family-owned and -operated company's growth over the last 55 years.

Duncan Pitchford, president of Hydro Aluminum Metals, talks about the company's investments in recycled-content aluminum production and more.

Murat Bayram is a Germany-based metals trader with scrap processing company EMR Ltd. and volunteers with several recycling trade associations. He discusses how he got his start in the industry and talks about the opportunities in today’s recycling sector.

Sanjay Mehta, director of the Mumbai-based MTC Group of Cos., discusses his life as a second-generation leader of one of India’s largest recycling companies and his role in the Material Recycling Association of India.

Colin Kelly will become chair of ISRI at this year's annual convention in April. He shares some of the association's priorities and the opportunities and challenges he sees in the recycling sector.