2007) and 5,000 employees. Scholz AG is amongst the leading steel and metal scrap recycling companies in Europe; it is 100% owned by the family of Berndt-Ulrich Scholz. The business has a subsidiary Scholz-Edelstahl GmbH (http://www.scholz- edelstahl.de/), its a steel trading company with a group tonnage of 325,000