Built to Keep Recycling Operations Running
DeHart Recycling Equipment helps businesses, manufacturers, recyclers, warehouses, municipalities, and industrial operations improve the way they handle recyclable materials.
We provide new equipment, DeHart Certified used equipment, rebuilds, conveyors, parts, installation, preventive maintenance, repairs, and long-term service support. Our goal is simple: help customers choose the right equipment, keep it running, and get more value from their recycling operation.
Sean Justen (L) and Brent Becker (R) of DeHart Recycling
Our Story
DeHart Recycling Equipment Inc. was founded in 1947 by Glen DeHart Sr. The company found its direction in 1974 when Glen DeHart Jr. moved the business into industrial recycling equipment, serving local paper and metal recycling facilities.
Over the years, DeHart expanded from equipment sales into service, installation, rebuilds, parts, accessories, and custom conveyor solutions. In 2003, Sean Justen and John Messerly acquired the business and continued building on DeHart’s reputation for practical solutions, equipment knowledge, and customer support. In 2008, the company moved into a larger 26,000 sq. ft. facility in Hazelwood, Missouri, giving DeHart more room for equipment, rebuilds, service, parts, and continued growth.
In January 2025, Brent Becker acquired DeHart Recycling Equipment with a focus on continuing the company’s long-standing service-first approach while investing in the next stage of growth. Sean Justen continues to serve as President, helping maintain the experience, customer relationships, and equipment knowledge that have defined DeHart for decades.
Today, DeHart continues to serve customers with the same practical approach that built the company: understand the application, recommend the right solution, support the equipment, and stand behind the work.
What Makes DeHart Different
Choosing the right recycling equipment partner matters. Customers need more than a quote. They need someone who understands the equipment, the application, the installation, the service requirements, and the long-term cost of keeping a system running.
At DeHart, we focus on the full life of the equipment. We help customers choose the right machine, install it properly, maintain it, repair it, source parts, and extend its useful life.
Because we understand equipment, service, and material handling, we can help customers solve real-world problems in the field.
Our Mission
Our mission is to help customers improve their recycling operations with reliable equipment, practical guidance, and dependable support.
We believe the right recycling system should help customers reduce waste, recover more value, improve productivity, and operate with less downtime.
Industries We Serve
DeHart supports customers across a wide range of industries, including recycling facilities, manufacturing plants, warehouses, distribution centers, printing companies, packaging companies, document destruction companies, scrap processors, municipalities, retail operations, commercial operations, and industrial facilities.
Let's Maximize Your Recycling Operation.
Whether you are buying your first baler, replacing aging equipment, adding conveyors, rebuilding a machine, or looking for a dependable service partner, DeHart can help.
Contact DeHart Recycling Equipment today to talk about equipment, service, parts, installation, rebuilds, or preventive maintenance.
DeHart offers a full range of recycling equipment and support services, including new and used equipment sales, DeHart Certified used equipment and rebuilds, installation, system integration, preventive maintenance, repairs, upgrades, retrofits, parts, supplies, bale wire, and custom conveyor solutions.
We work with customers who process cardboard, paper, plastics, metals, scrap, packaging materials, documents, and other recyclable materials. Our team helps match the right equipment to the material, volume, facility layout, labor requirements, and long-term operating goals.
