A manufacturing shop is the one scrap customer where the maths is completely predictable. You know what alloy you run, you know roughly how much of it goes on the floor, and you know it will be the same next month. The only question is whether it gets paid as what it is, or as whatever the cheapest thing in the bin is.
What the estate produces
- Machine shops. Steel, stainless and brass turnings, tooling, bar ends.
- Sheet metal and fabrication. Plate drops, laser and punch skeletons, folded offcuts.
- Manufacturers. Production trim, reject parts, jigs, packaging frames.
- Powder coaters and finishers. Hanging gear, racks, rejected work.
- Plant and maintenance. Motors, drives, switchboards, conveyor sections.
Rates
Indicative rates, the same ones on the home page. Metal markets move every week, so ring 0435 805 124 for the exact figure before you load up.
Look at the gap between brass and steel. A shop turning brass all week and tipping the swarf in the steel bin is the most expensive habit in this industry, and it is extremely common.
Single-grade bins are the whole point
If your shop runs one alloy for long stretches, a dedicated bin for it is worth more per kilo than a general bin, and we will quote a standing rate against it. Where production switches between alloys, it is usually still worth two bins: one for the valuable grade and one for everything else.
Setting up an estate site
- A look at what you machine and how fast the bins fill.
- Bins or drums per grade, placed at the machine rather than in a tidy corner.
- Exchange cycle matched to the real fill rate, adjusted after the first few collections.
- Weighed by grade every exchange, figures recorded.
- Paid by EFT on a regular cycle with a statement you can reconcile.