Brass Recycling

Our brass recycling service includes recycling of many forms of brass scrap. We offer brass recycling of yellow brass, red brass, rod brass, aluminum brass & forms such as radiatiors, fired bullet shells, valves, water meters etc. We also offer brass recycling of other forms such as shop turnings, solids or cut offs.

Brass Recycling for Your Specific Needs

Our brass recycling services are custom taylored to determine how best to recycle your brass scrap. All of our brass recycling services are suited to your company's brass scrap collecting and brass recycling requirements. We'll analyze your range of brass recycling needs, your volume of brass scrap produced and brass alloy "yellow brass scrap, red brass scrap, rod brass scrap, aluminum brass scrap, etc." Then consider what kind of brass recycling service pays to recycle your brass scrap. Using this data, we can determine how best to process your brass scrap and help you maximize your return from brass recycling.

 

 

Domestic Brass (plumbers brass)

Old Yellow Brass - Old Yellow brass . Yellow brass solids including sheet, rod, tubing, castings, including plated materials. Must be free of aluminum bronze or manganese bronze. equivalent to ISRI code HONEY.

Yellow Brass Turnings - Yellow Brass Turnings. Yellow Brass Turnings shall consist of yellow brass turnings, borings or grindings.ISRI code Nomad is included in this grade

 

 

Plumbers Brass

Clean Brass Wire - Mixed brass wire. Brass Wire shall consist of clean brass wire free of aluminum.

C&F Metals (cocks & faucets) - C&F Metals (cocks & faucets). C&F Metals (cocks & faucets) shall consist of mixed clean red & yellow brass plumbing cocks & faucets, including nickel/chrome plated parts, must be free of zinc die cast & aluminum parts.ISRI code GRAPE is included in this grade.

 Brass

Unclean Auto Radiators - Unclean Auto Radiators. Unclean Auto Rads shall consist of mixed copper/brass automotive radiators with iron frame or supports still intact, (iron not to exceed 4% of total weight), may not include iron finned Rads or aluminum Rads

Aluminum Bronze Solids - Aluminum Bronze Solids. Aluminum Bronze Solids shall consist of aluminum bronze alloy solids with a typical analysis of 78-90% Copper, 8.5-11.5% Aluminum, 1.0-5.0% Iron and may contain up to 5% Nickel.

Irony Brass & Bronze - Irony Brass & Bronze. Irony Brass & Bronze shall consist of brass & bronze solids with a maximum iron content of 10%.

The recycling of brass scrap is a basic essential of the economics of the industry. Brass for extrusion and hot stamping is normally made from a basic melt of scrap of similar composition adjusted by the addition of virgin copper or zinc as required to meet the specification before pouring. The use of brass scrap bought at a significantly lower price than the metal mixture price means that the cost of the fabricated brass is considerably less than it might otherwise be.

The presence in brass of some other elements such as lead is often required to improve machinability so such scrap is frequently acceptable. Besides the common free-machining brasses, there are many others made for special purposes with properties modified to give extra strength, hardness, corrosion resistance or other attributes, so strict segregation of scrap is essential.

Brass scrap arising from machining operations can be economically remelted but should be substantially free from excess lubricant, especially those including organic compounds that cause unacceptable fume during remelting.

When brass is remelted, there is usually some evolution of the more volatile zinc. This is made up in the melt to bring it back within specification. The zinc is evolved as oxide that is drawn off and trapped in a baghouse and recycled for the manufacture of other products.

Brass to be made in to sheet, strip or wire form must be significantly free of harmful impurities in order to retain ductility when cold. It can then be rolled, drawn, deep drawn, swaged, riveted, spun or otherwise cold formed. It is normal therefore to make it substantially from virgin copper and zinc, together with process scrap arising from processing that has been kept clean, carefully segregated and identified.

Copper alloys such as phosphor bronzes, gunmetals, leaded bronzes and aluminium bronzes are normally made to closely controlled specifications in order to ensure fitness for demanding service. They are normally made from ingots of guaranteed composition together with process scrap of the same composition that has been kept carefully segregated. Where scrap has become mixed, or is of unknown composition, it is first remelted by an ingot maker and analysed so that the composition can be suitably adjusted to bring it within grade for an alloy.

Good quality high conductivity copper can be recycled by simple melting and check analysis before casting, either to finished shape or for subsequent fabrication. However, this normally only applies to process scrap arising within a copper works. Where copper has been contaminated and it is required to re-refine it, it is normally remelted and cast to anode shape so that it can be electrolytically refined. If, however, the level of impurities in the cast anode is significant, it is unlikely that the cathode produced will then meet the very high standards required of grade 'A' copper used for the production of fine wires.

Where copper and copper alloy scraps are very contaminated and unsuitable for simple remelting, they can be recycled by other means to recover the copper either as the metal or to give some of the many copper compounds essential for use in industry and agriculture. This is the usual practice for recovery of useable copper in slag, dross or mill scale arising from production processes or from life-expired assemblies of components containing useful quantities of copper