Built in Indianapolis.
Grown with intent.
Trinity Metals is a scaled, domestic critical metals recycling platform — copper, aluminum, nickel-based alloys, magnesium, and allied streams. Founded by Wade Conner, privately held, and run with a long-term, relationship-driven posture, with consistent leadership since inception.
A scaled critical metals recycling platform.
Critical Metals Recycling
Trinity recycles the critical metals modern industry depends on — copper, aluminum, nickel-based alloys, magnesium, and allied streams — serving manufacturers, fabricators, and industrial generators domestically and internationally.
Recycling overview→ D-02 CapabilityCapabilities & Infrastructure
Processing capability, certified management systems, R2 / RIOS-certified e-scrap operations, and a logistics desk arranging domestic shipments and export containers from anywhere in the United States.
Our capabilities→The Trinity Metals story, year by year.
From a Kelley School accounting degree and a scrap route at Indiana University to a scaled, domestic critical metals recycling platform — with certified management systems and consistent leadership since inception. Every chapter below is the result of steady reinvestment and a long-term posture in the markets we serve.
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1992 Kelley School of Business
Accounting degree, then Deloitte & Touche in Europe
After graduating from the Kelley School of Business with a degree in Accounting, Wade Conner worked for Deloitte & Touche in Europe.
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1997 Return to Industry
US Controller at Dominion Metal & Refining
Wade returned to the recycling industry in 1997 as the US Controller for Dominion Metal & Refining, based out of Montreal, Canada.
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1997–2001 Credentials
C.P.A. and M.B.A.
Between 1997 and 2001 Wade received his C.P.A. certificate in the State of New York and earned his M.B.A. at the State University of New York.
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2001 August 28
Founded Normet, a Division of TVF, Inc.
Wade left Dominion Metal and founded Normet, a Division of TVF, Inc. on August 28, 2001 for the late Richard D. Hanzel. He served as the Executive Vice President of TVF, Inc. until May 30, 2008.
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2008 June 3
Trinity Metals is founded
Wade founded Trinity Metals on June 3, 2008. On August 28, 2008, Trinity purchased the assets and trade style of Normet from TVF, Inc. All key staff at Normet joined Trinity Metals and the Normet trade style was retired.
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2012 April
HQ at 6400 English Avenue
The expansion of Trinity Metals began in earnest with the purchase and build-out of the company’s headquarters, warehouse, and production facility at 6400 English Avenue, Indianapolis.
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2014 & 2018 Footprint Expansion
Two additional warehouses & production facilities
Trinity followed the HQ build-out with the purchase of two additional warehouses and production facilities in 2014 and 2018, respectively.
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2021 May · U.S. Patent
U.S. patent for reduced environmental impact
In May 2021, Wade received a U.S. patent related to scrap metal processing with reduced environmental impact, and granted Trinity Metals the exclusive production rights without charge.
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2021 September
Indiana Governor’s Award for Environmental Excellence
In September 2021, Wade received the 2021 Indiana Governor’s Award for Environmental Excellence for his U.S. patent and accepted the award on behalf of Trinity Metals.
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2021 December
Trinity Metals Charitable Foundation
In December 2021, the ownership group of Trinity Metals founded the Trinity Metals Charitable Foundation.
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2023 Industry Engagement
Active membership in REMA & International Magnesium Association
Trinity formalized active membership in REMA (the Recycled Materials Association) and the International Magnesium Association — reinforcing engagement with the industry organizations that govern recycling standards globally.
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2024 Platform Expansion
Platform expansion across critical metals
Trinity continued to invest across its critical metals recycling platform — strengthening throughput and counterparty programs across copper, aluminum, nickel-based alloys, magnesium, and allied streams.
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2025 Customer Base
Expanded customer base across metal families
Trinity meaningfully broadened its customer footprint over 2024–2025, adding industrial generators, dealers, and downstream producers across multiple critical metal streams — both domestically and internationally.
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2026 Today
A scaled, domestic critical metals recycler
Trinity operates as a scaled, domestic critical metals recycling platform — copper, aluminum, nickel-based alloys, magnesium, and allied streams — with R2 / RIOS certified e-scrap and an ISO Certified Plant at our Shadeland location, built over more than two decades.
An accountant, an operator, and a patent holder — with a lifelong pull toward the recycling industry.
“We built Trinity Metals to do this work the right way — safer, cleaner, and with craftspeople who take pride in what they produce.”
Wade Conner’s path runs from an IU scrap route and a Kelley School accounting degree, through Deloitte & Touche in Europe, to controller and operator roles that culminated in founding Trinity Metals in 2008. Along the way he earned his C.P.A., his M.B.A., and — in 2021 — a U.S. patent for a lower-impact scrap metal process that he granted to Trinity Metals without charge.
A legitimate, scaled, and highly compliant domestic operator.
R2 / RIOS Certified at our Kitley Avenue e-scrap facility; our Shadeland location is our ISO Certified Plant — ISO 9001 (Quality), ISO 14001 (Environmental), and ISO 45001 (Occupational Health & Safety). Active membership in REMA and the International Magnesium Association.