Recore Trading Company was founded in September 1989 by Don Belisle. Don started the business with only a 1982 GMC general logging truck with the log bunkers removed and an open top box bed built for hauling transmissions. Recore’s original business was buying scrap transmissions to be melted down into aluminum sows, and core transmissions to be sold to transmission rebuilders and hard parts dealers but business changed and Recore grew with the times.
It was in 1990 when Don hired his first employee. It wasn’t long after that Recore Trading became the largest recycler of aluminum transmissions in New England. Recore was also buying automotive cores from salvage yards and reselling to rebuilders. In the early days, Recore was located in Auburn, New Hampshire with a rented parking space for the truck and two bays in a pole barn.
The next and possibly one of the most important changes was catalytic converters. Catalytic converters recycling business was in it’s infancy and Recore was there from the beginning.
The business grew again in 1992. Recore moved from the pole barn to a rented 35’ x 35’ building on the same property allowing them to lock up, and a second truck was purchased that year, a 1988 Chevrolet K35 rack body. A year later, Don bought a 50’ x 50’ three bay building at auction. This new building had plenty of outside parking which allowed for growth. The ‘90′s was an exciting time for Recore. Three more employees were added to the business, including a full time office person. Business was moving away from transmissions and cores to catalytic converters and aluminum wheels. In the late 1990′s a local company installed a car shredder. Due to Don’s strong relationship with the company he was able to broker crushed and whole cars for him. The partnership went so well, and business became so busy that Don decided to haul cars that he brokered and he bought his first semi tractor trailer.
In 2006 Recore moved to it’s current location in Derry, New Hampshire at 22 Manchester Road. This location has a huge warehouse, and a large office building and sits on a very busy highway. Business continued to change and grow. In 2008 Recore purchased their roll off container truck and began offering that service as well. The prices of catalytic converters went up sharply that year, bringing a lot of new people into the catalytic converter business. Don researched and installed a state-of-the-art catalytic converter decanning and dust collecting operation. This significant investment has been instrumental in keeping Recore the strongest buyer of catalytic converters in the Northeast.
In 2009 Recore bought a new Overbuilt car crusher and a loader. The car crusher allowed Don to institute a new car crusher program. If a salvage yard does not have it’s own crusher, Recore will loan them theirs for free on the condition they sell the flats and cats to them.
Currently Recore has nine employees, four semi tractor trailers, and many small support trucks to better service the New England area in the decades to come.
