Machine Tool Recyclers Inc
2005 Granart Road, Sugar Grove IL 60554 630-964-5030
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Soft carbide scrap (sludge) recycling—how it works:
Day 0: Phone for a price; written confirmation and terms emailed.
Day 1: FedEx truck scheduled for pickup at your convenience; bill of lading and other paperwork emailed or faxed to you.
Day 2 & 3: FedEx picks up and delivers shipment.
Locations west of the Rockies, Canada or Mexico add a day or two. We use FedEx Trade Networks to broker your shipment across the border.
Day 4: Contents weighed and inspected.
Excess oil and coolant removed & weighed
Core samples taken and sent lab for analysis
Day 18: Lab analysis back; check mailed
Day 21: You receive the check in the mail.
Throughout the process, we update you on status.
Soft scrap quality guesstimater
Soft carbide scrap (swarf) recycling—how do you get paid:
Shipping usually brings some of the coolant to the top. We remove this excess top oil before sampling.
When your shipment arrives, core samples are taken and sent to a lab for analysis.
This is the proper way, as the heavier--and thus more valuable--material will have settled to the bottom. When the analysis comes back it might read something like:
12.5% moisture
05.7% cobalt
19.8% other elements
74.5% tungsten
If a drum of your sludge, before analysis, weighed 2,000 lbs, and if—as an example only—our offered price were $10/lb tungsten contained we would pay as follows:
2,000# x 87.5% = 1,750# dry weight
1,750# x 74.5% = 1,304# tungsten contained
1,304# x $10.00 = $13,040 paid*
* typically in 2 or 3 weeks
