The commodities boom have makes metals and electronics recyclers like Sims Metal Management (NYSE:SMS) more profitable as rawmaterials become more expensive.
Neu was enormously successful in hugely growing the value of the privately held family concern, Hugo Neu, from a simple scrap metal trading business into one of the largest automobile crushing operations in the U.S. He then profited from taking all that crushed metal and made it available for the needs of emerging nations for rawmaterials for their economies.