Machine Tool Recyclers Inc.
4716 Douglas Road, Downers Grove IL 60515 630-964-5030
Inquires: mtri@speakeasy.net
Carbide & HSS Recycling
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If it’s scrap carbide
we buy it.
We buy scrap carbide. We also buy scrap high speed steel.
Payment issued immediately upon receipt of material.
Phone for the latest price 630-964-5030
Ask for Jon or Gene mtri@speakeasy.net
Please don’t forget your scrap high speed steel (HSS)
How to recycle carbide and HSS:
Phone for bid. Please do not send carbide or hss for recycling without phoning first.
Bid confirmed by email. Price guaranteed for one week.
You send the old carbide and/or hss.
Weighted on certified-for-trade scales, checked daily with certified weights.
Payment is issued within 24 hours of receipt of material.
Items must be clean and free of foreign material.
Scrap carbide needs to be separated from the HSS.
Tungsten is one of the densest elements. Pure tungsten is slightly heavier than gold with a specific gravity greater than 19. It has the highest melting point of all elements, 6192 °F and the highest tensile strength at high temperatures. Recovery of tungsten is what makes scrap carbide valuable.
Tungsten is used in super alloys for the aerospace and other high tech industries, e.g. in the turbines of rockets and jet engines; it is the filament in all incandescent light bulbs and used in most fluorescents; it is used in armor plate and armor piercing ammunition; and the cutting tools, pictured above, that are used to machine products from automotive engine blocks to dental drills. Tungsten carbide tooling is critical to mining and drilling as well as road construction. About 65% of USA tungsten consumption is used in the manufacture of new tungsten carbide.
In the classic 1946 Film Noir,“Gilda” the bad guy is going to run the world by establishing a monopoly in tungsten. His theory was that one critical material could provide a lot of leverage, kind of like bending someone’s little finger backwards.
China has approximately 60% of the world’s known tungsten reserves, Russia has 8% and Canada 12% the USA and South America 4% each. Last year China produced 86% of the mined tungsten, world wide.
According to the International Tungsten Industry Association, 70% of the world’s reserves are Scheelite ore and 30% are Wolframite. At the current rate of consumption these reserves will last about 140 years.
China is also the world’s largest tungsten consumer. In 2005, the Chinese Government, in order to conserve its resources and meet increasing domestic demand, limited tungsten production and exports while increasing tungsten imports. These policies spiked the price of tungsten and are expected to continue.
Last year, tungsten recycled from scrap accounted for 31% of tungsten consumption by USA processors and end users. The rest was imported; 43% of the import was from China and 25% from Russia.
