Marsden Metals and Recycling are a local, family-owned scrap metal recycling company. Founded by Gordon Abernethy who has more than 50 years’ experience in the scrap metal recycling industry. Gordon’s whakapapa is Ngā Puhi, Ngāti Kahu and Ngāti Rua and we are very proud that most of our team whakapapa from Northland iwi. Janine Abernethy joined the MMG team in the early 2000’s and now the next generation of the Abernethy family have joined the MMG team as it grows from strength to strength.
Janine joined the business after a successful career in Education, Advocacy and Health Administration and has led the company through its recent growth.
Bruce has many years of experience in large demolition and deconstruction projects in addition to waste transport logistics and waste management.
Andy W is Marsden Metals Group most experienced team member having been with MMG for over 10 years. Andy has broad expertise across all areas of Metals Recycling, Processing, Health and Safety and team leadership. In addition to managing the Ruakaka yard, Andy leads our export operations and cadetship programme.
The MMG team enjoy the occasional team breakfast or shared lunch for fun. We also attend get-togethers outside of work to do good in our local community. Working at MMG means a competitive wage plus ongoing training, and a collaborative and diverse environment. Many of our team live in Whangarei and travel in our company provided EV car to work in Ruakaka each day.
