Scrap prices current – metal prices per kg

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Yes, pure copper from copper cable can achieve a higher price than conventional copper cable (incl. Insulation).

Mostly from daily prices paid on the stock exchange. This is then broken down into the region and the providers accordingly and the current daily price for the metal purchase is determined from it. Also crucial are grade, purity and quantity.

Yeah. For each grade there is a quantity scale: The displayed price applies to every quantity, from a certain quantity we pay more. Where the border lies depends on the value of the grade – for copper Millberry, the second stage begins earlier than for iron scrap, because there are already a few kilos of land. The season is on each grade page, and in the shopping cart you can see how much is still missing until the next stage. The reason is simple: Weighing, sorting and calculating costs us about the same amount each process – with larger quantities this is less important, and we give away from that.

Typical: clean, bare copper/alu/brass > clean scrap. Bad, on the other hand, is heavily contaminated scrap metal. Cable is evaluated by copper content. Prices for all metals are relatively stable, but for copper the price is fluctuating. Check out before you sell.

Of course! They can be there directly when weighing and understand it on the scale. In the case of online sales, you will receive the pictures and then receive the weighing slip.

That depends on the weight and condition. A set of four rims weighs about 30 to 60 kilograms depending on the inch size. Multiplying with the daily price for clean alloy rims results in the proceeds – the table above anticipates it for each size. If tyres, balance weights or valves are still attached, the product falls into the lower grade.

Almost always. It takes about two minutes per rim, and the distance between clean and unclean goods is considerable. Balancing weights are usually made of lead or zinc, the valve often carries a steel core – both make a clean rim an unclean one.

You receive payment. Acceptance is free, including for mixed deliveries. Charges apply only to additional services such as collection, priced by distance, or container provision. These charges are agreed before the order and deducted from your payment. There is no charge for self-delivery.

There is no single fixed price. Metal quotations follow the global market and change daily; we review our prices against them every day. Material grade also matters: bright copper wire and a plug cable containing around 30% copper have very different values. Prices for all grades are listed on the Metal Prices page. The final payment is confirmed after certified weighing.

Yeah. Brass is a copper alloy, and its value depends on it: It's clearly above iron scrap. It is best rated without iron screws, plastic handles and seals. Gunmetal contains additional tin and achieves even more. Even a bucket of fittings is worth the way.

Significantly more than iron – how much depends on the alloy. V2A (1,4301, often called Nirosta) is the most common grade; V4A additionally contains molybdenum and is paid higher. A magnet gives only a first hint, the alloys he can't distinguish. Separate both: In the mixture, the whole delivery is evaluated according to the weaker grade.

That depends on what's in it. For iron and steel scrap, weight is the main factor; the kilo price is in the range of less cents. If non-ferrous metal is inserted in it – copper windings, brass fittings, aluminium profiles – the value increases many times. For mixed deliveries, the price is obtained during the evaluation; for larger quantities we call it in advance in the offer.

Steel wheels are iron scrap and are billed at the scrap price – significantly less than aluminium wheels. A magnet distinguishes both in seconds: it adheres to steel, not to aluminium. Do not throw the grades together; a mixture is evaluated according to the weaker portion.

The copper price follows the stock exchange quotation and changes daily – therefore, there is no fixed number, only one daily price. Our verified purchase prices for each copper grade are shown in the table above, each with the date of its last change. What you get specifically depends on the grade: Between a blank Millberry wire and a plug cable with a low conductor content lie in the worlds of proceeds.

The copper price from the news is the listing for pure copper on the stock exchange. Waste copper lies below it: The scrap metal must be sorted, processed and transported, and hardly any delivery is chemically pure. The closer a grade approaches pure copper – for example, bare, insulation-free wire – the less distance to the listing.

Take the daily price of the grade times 100 – the table on this page calculates it for 1, 5, 10, 25, 50 and 100 kilograms. The amount shown shall be the best classification. If insulation, soldering tin or iron is still attached to it, it is evaluated according to the correspondingly lower grade. In the end, the calibrated weighing is decisive.

There is not one copper scrap price, but one per grade. Purity and conductor content are crucial: bare wire, pipes and collecting rails, mixed cables or plugs are classified differently. For each grade, those who separate pure grades get their own price instead of a mixed valuation according to the weakest proportion.

It's on the cross-section. With strong cables with a high conductor content, stripping is almost always expected, with fine plug cables with multiple sheathing rarely – the effort exceeds the difference there. The ladder portion decides which grade will reach at the end – you can read the distance between the grades on the daily price.

One kilogram brings the daily price of its grade – and the span is large: Blankes Millberry stands above, started or painted copper clearly below, cables are calculated according to their conductor share. The table above shows the copper price kg for each grade. It is important to know that for a single kilogram the journey is not worthwhile, because the proceeds for each copper grade are less than the minimum amount of 25 euros per process. It becomes meaningful from several kilograms or together with other scrap metal.

What is written on the weighing slip is the NETTO weight of the grade times daily price – not the gross weight of the scale. Insulation, iron parts, soldering tin and moisture do not pass as copper. Weighing on a calibrated scale, the weighing slip is yours, and will be paid out within 24 hours. You choose the grade yourself at the time of registration; it is calculated according to the actual grade on the scale.

In the case of cables, the copper content in the cross-section, not the weight, decides. A thick earth cable brings much more than an equally heavy roll of thin mantle line per kilogram – the difference lies in the proportion of the conductor alone. Therefore, there are several types of cables instead of one price, staggered by copper content. What grades we distinguish and what they bring today is under Copper cable purchase.

Half a kilo brings half the kilo price of its grade – and is therefore far below the minimum amount of 25 euros per process for each copper grade. This amount is not worth selling as a private sale. Put them to what else is involved: brass, aluminum and stainless steel are billed in the same process, each grade with its own price. So the amount comes together without you driving twice.