How to Build a Scrap Trading Process That Prioritises Safety and Documentation
Scrap trading is a commercial business conducted on industrial sites, and safety and paperwork are usually treated as the two dullest parts of it. They are also the two cheapest forms of insurance a small operator can buy. Injuries end businesses abruptly and disputes end them slowly, and a process that handles both costs an […]
Malaysia’s cable theft and the push to register scrap dealers
Malaysia’s cable theft and its scrap dealer question are arriving together, and the country’s position is the one familiar to every market with a fast-growing network and a slow-moving register. The theft of copper from power and telecommunications infrastructure is a documented operating cost to the utilities, the material is absorbed by a scrap trade […]
How ScrapTrade Helps Sellers Bring Scrap Materials Online
The scrap industry has moved an enormous amount of material on handshakes and phone calls, and it will keep doing so. What’s changed is that those conversations can now start somewhere else as well. And if you’re wondering how the purchases and sales you make online should be tracked, the scrap metal purchase and sales […]
How to Organise Scrap Trading Leads From First Contact to Sale
Paper tickets, whiteboards and a folder of spreadsheets will run a scrap yard for years. The question is how much they’re quietly costing the business in the meantime. If you’re weighing up what a proper inventory system should include, the scrap inventory management software guide on scrap.trade is a useful starting point. A lot gets […]
How to Help Scrap Yards Turn Available Stock Into Buyer Opportunities
You don’t need a yard, a fleet of trucks or a warehouse full of metal to start in this trade, but you do need to understand how it works, and nobody is born knowing that. If you’re working out what a good deal actually looks like, the tips for successful scrap deals on ScrapTrade are […]
How to Match Scrap Yard Inventory With Real Buyer Requirements
There’s no shortage of people in the scrap trade willing to handle your material for you. Working out which of them are actually good at it is the interesting part. Emerging streams are worth knowing about too, and the solar panel scrap and recycling walkthrough is a good example of where the trade is heading. […]
Aluminium Scrap Grades Explained for New Scrap Dealers
There’s a real logic to how the scrap business works, and once it clicks, a lot of the initial uncertainty falls away. If you’re just getting to grips with how this industry works, the scrap trading glossary is a handy reference to keep close by. Another point worth making early: you don’t have to choose […]
Local Scrap Buyers vs International Buyers: Which Is Right for Your Load?
There’s a big difference between selling a bit of scrap from a garage cleanout and supplying commercial quantities to a real buyer. If you’re new to this side of things, selling scrap in bulk is worth understanding properly, and we’ll cover the essentials here. When you first look into bulk scrap, a lot of the […]
How Scrap Can Become Something Completely New
Scrap is a funny thing. Two people can look at the exact same pile and see two completely different things. If this is the kind of thing you wonder about, how different people see scrap is a great place to begin. How a Scrap Dealer Sees It A dealer sees something else again. To a […]