Anbakam Metals’ President Sivakumar Balasubramanian (l-r) accepts an export achievement award from Congressman Rush Holt and Thomas Mottley, a senior international trade specialist with the U.S. Department Of Commerce on March 31.

EAST BRUNSWICK — A local commodity trading firm has been recognized for its export achievement. Rep. Rush Holt (D-12) presented Sivakumar Balasubramanian, president of Anbakam Metals, with the U.S. Department of Commerce Export Achievement Certificate during a visit to the Tices Lane business on March 31.

This Export Achievement Certificate was created to recognize small and midsize enterprises that have successfully entered the international marketplace for the first time or have successfully entered a new market. The award stresses the importance of exports in the national economy and illustrates the contributions made by exporters to their local communities.

Anbakam Metals is a seven-year-old East Brunswick-based commodities-trading firm that purchases recycled raw materials and exports to countries with developing infrastructure. Anbakam’s niche markets have been focused on the Indian subcontinent region and the Far East.

The firm has helped to create a demand for containerized shipments of metal scrap while supplying jobs amid a gloomy job market. It has used the Department of Commerce’s Gold Key Program to create business opportunities and sales in the Vietnam market.