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How Schnitzer Creates Value

Our Inputs: Schnitzer Capital

More than 3,400 employees

Our Outputs: Value Created

  • 90% facilities free of lost time injury
  • 67,000 training hours
  • 15% increase in participation in retirement benefits program
  • 1,700 career development courses completed

Our Inputs: Schnitzer Capital

Operating platform across 25 states, western Canada and Puerto Rico including:

  • 54 metal recycling facilities including:
    • 13 advanced recovery technology systems1
    • 7 metal shredders
    • 7 deepwater ports
    • 22 railcar terminals
  • 51 Pick-n-Pull stores
  • 1 electric arc furnace steel mill

Our Outputs: Value Created

  • 800,000 end-of-life vehicles purchased and recycled
  • 4.6M tons of ferrous metals sold
  • 687M pounds of nonferrous metal sold
  • 465,000 tons of finished steel produced from
    recycled ferrous metals
  • 4.4M recycled auto parts sold

Our Inputs: Schnitzer Capital

Relationships with:

  • 100+ operating communities
  • 4M+ annual retail customers
  • 14,000+ suppliers

Our Outputs: Value Created

Direct and indirect contributions including:

  • 34,000 jobs supported2
  • $2.3B in wages earned2
  • $872M in federal, state, and local tax revenue2

Our Inputs: Schnitzer Capital

  • $1.8B in total assets
  • $180M in recycling business acquisitions
  • $150M in capital expenditures

Our Outputs: Value Created

  • $3.5B revenue
  • $313M adjusted EBITDA3
  • 16.3% Adjusted Return on Capital Employed

1 Includes seven systems completed as of end of fiscal year 2022 and six systems in construction or design.

2 Direct and indirect contributions include our own footprint as well as estimates for our suppliers and re-spending by employees of the U.S. steel industry and U.S. metal recycling industry. Statistics are based on our fiscal 2021 sales volumes of finished steel, recycled ferrous metals, and recycled nonferrous metals, and data sourced from economic impact studies facilitated by the American Iron & Steel Institute (AISI) for the U.S. steel industry and the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, Inc. (ISRI) for the U.S. scrap recycling industry.

3 See use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures in Schnitzer’s FORM 10-K filing.

Chairman & CEO Message How Schnitzer Creates Value Recycled Materials and Circular Economy Supporting Circular Economy Our Operational Footprint Managing ESG at Schnitzer Sustainability Governance and Principles Stakeholder Engagement Sustainability Goals Meeting Demand for Recycled Metals Advanced Recovery Technologies Environmental Management Climate Action Through Emissions Reduction Indirect Emissions Net Zero Carbon Emissions Steel Water Conservation Biodiversity Safety A Conversation with Suresh Rajapakse Culture Benchmarking Diversity Employee Resource Groups Engaging Employees Everyday Ethics & Compliance Training, Education, Development & Recognition Health & Wellness Cultivating Community Supporting Children & Families Engaging Tomorrow’s Workforce Addressing Food Insecurity Environmental Advocacy