Parkerbender
Stainless
- Joined
- Dec 19, 2009
- Location
- Kansas City Mo, USA
I have been screwed over by our local scrap guys for the last time I think... I am considering just hanging onto our 6061 until we have a truckload or more and then selling it. Does anyone know of a bigger buyer? One of our guys that came from the aerospace world had mentioned that a former shop he was at was just blowing chips into van bodies and someone would come and pick them up. Have you ever heard of that? We arn't huge but not tiny, probably 2,000 lbs chips a week. Our local guys (well, on the fourth company now...) are still at the same 30 cents they were at when we switched to them a year ago, but they have stopped doing pickup for us so now I get to haul scrap in for the same price as picked up every couple weeks, and now they just let me know that they are going to charge us $15 for boxes and skids because they say they have to buy them for that price. I said, "ok, I'll provide my own then and you can just pay us for the gaylords and skids" obviously they are not interested in doing that...
Anyway, has everyone else seen their scrap price stay the same at $4 aluminum as it was with $1.90 aluminum? Does anyone know who a guy would talk to if they wanted to sell scrap at a more wholesale level?
We are in Kansas City, but I would assume if a guy was selling a truck or two that shipping isn't a huge deal...
Thanks much, and make something!
-Parker
Anyway, has everyone else seen their scrap price stay the same at $4 aluminum as it was with $1.90 aluminum? Does anyone know who a guy would talk to if they wanted to sell scrap at a more wholesale level?
We are in Kansas City, but I would assume if a guy was selling a truck or two that shipping isn't a huge deal...
Thanks much, and make something!
-Parker