Chile Scrap Metal Recycling

Chile Scrap Metal Recycling—Wires and Cables
Coaxing attractive, high-quality non-ferrous grades from scrap wire and cable has become an important segment of the metals industry of Chile, and Chile focuses on designing the process that will yield the purest grades of copper and aluminum

Pre-work: carefully sorting and then pre-chopping wire can help processors create a high-quality product.
Wire chopping lines with high volume of output and wire choppers with small but steady capacity, which are for cutting wires and cables into small pieces and beginning the separation process of plastic coating from the metal, have gained favor in Chile, because they are sturdy enough to handle large volume of wires and cables while saving wear and tear on the granulators that eventually process the wires and cables. And wire stripping machines have long been available to scrap wires and cables processors in Chile as a way to separate metal from plastic and create marketable materials.

In spite of the advantage of scrap metal recycling, it is not free from the environment problems, so Chile, this country has been developing clean recycling technology that is flexible, efficient, less energy consuming, free from use of harmful substances, minimize waste and emissions and more eco-friendly.

1. Clean Aluminum Stripping
In addition to alloying elements, aluminum scrap often includes lacquers, paints and plastic coatings. Chile scrap metal recycling has used a fluidised bed reactor that can remove such coatings from aluminum scrap containing up to 50% organic material. The aluminum scrap is introduced to a hot fluidised bed of alumina that heats the scrap and oxidises its organic component.
2. Clean Copper Refining
Chilean copper is produced by two processes: concentrators, including mining, crushing, milling, flotation, obtaining concentrates (30-35% Cu), and hydrometallurgical plants, including mining, crushing, heap leaching, solvent extraction and electro winning, obtaining copper cathodes (99.99% Cu). A portion of concentrates are treated in smelters and electro-refineries, obtaining copper cathodes, while other portion is exported to be treated in international smelting and refining plants.
Hydrometallurgical processes using leaching, purification of leach liquor and Electrowinning have hitherto acquired importance only for the processing of large deposits of low grade oxidised copper ores. Direct electro-refining of scrap in sulphate solution using anode support system is environmentally and economically very attractive and processes based on stainless steel or titanium anode system are being developed/used industrially in Chile. Direct electrowinning has been suitable for high quality (>95% Cu) low volume scrap.

Chile Scrap Metal Recycling—E-waste 
Urban mining, a growing industry focused on extracting metals from discarded computers and other electronic waste, is set to grow in Chile with benefits. Chile’s proven expertise in metal smelting is key to the country’s rise in e-waste recycling. The Latin American country produces more than a third of the world’s copper and is a significant extractor and exporter of gold and other metals.
Both copper and gold are used widely in electronics. For many Chileans, recycling e-waste holds a special fascination as they point out Chilean copper or gold may travel across the globe for processing in e-waste, only to end up again Chile as part of the consumer world’s e-waste mountains.
The electronic waste recycling industry in Chile is dominated by one company, Recycla. Companies bring electronic waste directly to the Recycla plant or hire Recycla to collect the e-waste for recycling. And there are local companies to recycle CRT glass, metals and plastic.

Chile Scrap Metal recycling—Auto Waste
The auto recycling market is untapped in South America, all or most part of cars are recycled except the metal, and the estimate is an average of 1 million plus tonnes of scrap metal in Chile alone; this kind of scrap metal recycling has the full backing of Chilean government as well as local companies looking for affordable raw materials; and this kind of recycling has high interest in global markets like Japan, India and China. All of these factors create great opportunities for Chile auto-recycling.
The car recycling plant is heavily dependent on specialized lorries which will be required to collect the scrap cars. The first step after the cars have been collected is to strip them of other materials like plastics, fabrics, leathers, used oil, lubricants and so on. The second step is to shred the metals using a specialized machine that will shred the metal to make the metal ready to be used by foundries.

Difference in In-use Stocks of Metal Worldwide

The continued increase in the use of metals over the 21st century has led to a substantial change from below the ground to above the ground in the form of application in society. As for which changes brought by such shift in society, economy and environment, we have to have a basic understanding of the in-use stocks of metals worldwide.

Copper and aluminum are of vital importance in the development of various industries. The capacity of copper decides the usage of copper, which is widely used for electrical infrastructure in buildings. It is certain that stocks in cities of more-developed countries possess significantly higher amounts in-use stocks per capita than in cities of less developed countries. For instance, the capital of America, the amount of copper in-use stocks per capita is nearly four times higher than in Cape Town, South Africa.

As with the example of copper, differences are in in-use stocks can be seen in the case of aluminum. Japan and America possess the highest in-use stocks and exceed the value of China by 9 and 13 times. Besides, the average values of per capita in-use stocks of aluminum for Europe, Japan and America are more than four times higher than the world average value.

From the above, we know that most in-use stocks residue in developed countries, therefore those developing countries should have closely watch about this trend so as not to be controlled by other countries. Meanwhile, metals resources are non-renewable resources; hence adopting coping strategy in time is very necessary. Metal recycling is inevitable way to realize economy’s sustainable development.

Amisy, an expert manufacturer of copper recycling equipments, has 12 years experience of producing copper cable granulator and wire stripping machines. It is certain that we can be your best partner on the way to the kingdom of fortune.

Scrap Copper Wire/Cable Recycling in UK

Metal recovery is a kind of emerging industry in UK. And metal recycling is a £ 5.6 billion UK industry. The industry employs over 8,000 people and makes at a net contribution to UK balance trade. At the same time, UK is the first country in the world promoting the business of recycling scrap metal, and this country has carried out the scrap metal recycling plan in 2002, which had a good effect in the first year’s implement: processing 103 tons of scrap metal and other metal recycling accessories.

Copper scrap is used by both primary and secondary producers, and there are two main kinds of copper scrap for recycling today in UK

1.Clean, unalloyed, and uncoated copper solids, clippings, commutator segments, clean pipe and tubing, etc.

2.Copper wire/cable
---copper bright wire (bare bright wire): thicker than 1/16 of an inch and clean, no corrosion, no insulation.

---the highest grade of copper wire: still has insulation on it; copper content is 55% or higher by weight; does not have any aluminum or steel coating; the inside copper strands are more than 1/16of an inch or at least as thick as a standard pencil lead.

---medium insulated copper wire: copper content is 40%-50% by weight; the inside copper strands need to be more than 1/16 of an inch or at least as thick as a standard pencil lead.

---low copper content copper wire: lowest grade and has about 25%, the least amount of copper; includes computer cables and other heavily insulated wires.

---household copper wiring: it is the electrical wire commonly used in homes and buildings; covered by an outer insulation and contains 2 or 3 individually insulated copper wires inside.


---Christmas lights: use and broken Christmas lights can be recycled for its copper.

Scrap Copper Wire/Cable Stripping Process in UK

Scrap copper wire/cable recovery is a kind of scrap metal recycling with huge number and high recycle rate in UK. And the first step of scrap copper wire/cable recycling process is to separate the copper wire/cable from its insulating layer. And there are four methods:

1.Mechanical separating method
Processing by drum stripping machine: this process method is to deal with the copper wire/cable of the same thickness, and the factory of UK named Wolver Hampton is using this method. The copper wire/cable should be cut into proper segments in the first place and their length should be less than 300 mm, and then these segments are fed into the drum cutter to complete stripping. This process method has high comprehensive utilization level to recycle the copper and plastic from the scrap copper wire/cable; reduced plastic in the copper scrap after process and reduced air pollution when smelting.

Processing by wire stripping machine: it is used to strip thick copper wire/cable.

2.Deep freezing method: it is suitable for the copper wire/cable of various specifications. And it separates the copper from the insulation layer by crushing the fragile insulation layer after freezing.

3.Chemical separating method: this method is adopting a kind of organic solvent to dissolve the insulating layer to get high quality copper wire.

4.Thermal decomposition method: it is to burn off the insulating layer to get the pure copper wire.

A Brief Introduction of Scrap Baling Press

A Brief Introduction of Scrap Baling Press

For different needs, there are two kinds of scrap baling presses,that is hydraulic baler and horizontal baler.

Hydraulic vertical baler is a kind of baling press machine and its material is loaded from the front and compressed from the top down. Vertical baler is smaller compared to the horizontal baling press machine in size and capacity. The material baled by vertical baler need to be manually strapped. There are different kinds of hydraulic vertical balers with the compressing force from 10 tons to 60 tons for you to choose due to different waste materials, such as waste paper, cardboard, cartons, plastic bottles, used clothing, coconut fibers, used beverage containers, fabric scrap, tires, wood shavings and so on.

Horizontal Baling Press Machine is much larger both in size and capacity. The waste material is loaded from the top by conveyor or air cyclone system and compressed from the sides automatically. The horizontal baling press, equipped with PLC and touch screen, is ideal equipment for baling large quantities of recyclable materials and the capacity range can be from 1.5 tons/h to 40 tons/h (waste paper). The recyclable materials such as scrap papers, card boards, carton boxes, plastic films, and other loose materials can be fed into the baling press automatically and continuously, so the utilization of Automatic Horizontal Baling Press Machine can reduce labor cost greatly. On the other hand, these loose materials are compressed into compact tight bales which make them easier to transport and stack.

The Structure of Automatic Baling Press Machine

Frame part: machine body, conveyor, shrinking structure, wire strapping device, wire cutting device, hopper, platen, ram guiding device

Hydraulic part: motor, pump, hydraulic valve, hydraulic cylinder, pressure meter, filter, oil tank, etc.

Electric part: air switch, PLC, touch screen, operation control button, relays etc.

Applications of Large Capacity Horizontal Baling Press

1. It can be utilized in logistics, central storages, paper industry, printing plants and large waste recycling stations, etc.

2. It is suitable for baling light-puffy and loose materials such as cotton, wool, waste paper, waste carton, waste paperboard, yarn, tobacco leaf, plastic, cloth, woven bag, knitted velvet, fiber, gunny bag, wool top, hairball, cocoon, silk, hop flower, wheat straw, grass, waste plastic etc.

US Wire and Cable Recycling

The US scrap metal recycling industry which is driven by a recovering US economy, a growing Asian economy, and the growing demand for products manufactured with recycled materials, continues to grow with a value of billions of dollars. Despite the volatile economic activity across the global markets, the outlook for the metal recycling sector remains positive as the demand for scrap metal grows among both domestic and global consumers.

In America, there are also growing concerns over e-waste. In response, electronic manufacturers, regulators and recyclers are looking for more productive ways of separating copper and aluminum from insulation to create new metals by recovering scrap wires/cables.

Wires/Cables Recovery Systems in the United States

Stage1: recover up to 98% of insulated and bare wires

Using a sorting system to recognise fine metal particles with a highly-sensitive electro-magnetic sensor that can also identify insulating polymer coatings made of PVC, PP, PE or rubber with an additional high resolution near infrared sensor.

Stage2: recover up to 95% of insulated wires

The signals from both sensors are analyzed with the help of the newly developed processing technology which delivers high-precision results. This means the insulated copper/aluminum wires/cables can be safely identified and separated with up to 90% of purity.

And to achieve the final separation of metal (copper and aluminum) from the insulation layers, there are several steps included in the process:

1.Material separation: pre-sorting of copper and aluminum from insulated layers and other particles, as well as different grades metals. A number of processors in US has now established systems to get copper or aluminum from their materials. These methods may include dry systems, such as electrostatic separators, and wet separation systems that use shaker tables and cyclones.

2. Shredding: mandated by efficiency reasons in larger plants, but still optional in smaller plants

3. Granulation: usually accomplished in multiple stages

4. Screening: an optional stage that is used before or/and after final to enhance recovery

4. Density separation: where the actual separation and recovery of the copper or aluminum from the insulation occurs, using simple aspiration (an air wash of the insulation away from the metallics) and/or fluidized bed separation

5. Tailing process: various procedures, dedicated to either enhancing metals recovery or to conditioning the tailings for recovery or final disposition.

Wires/Cables Recycling Equipment Spotlights in US

Automated Recycling Products, Inc. (APPI) in America offers three models of wire stripper: the DRM, the smallest; the COMC and the REC. All these three models will strip the plastic insulation from wire diameter of 1/8” to 1 1/8”. And Cumberland offers granulators for recycling, injection molding, extrusion, blow molding and all other polymer industry processes. 

Wire and cable recycling involves the extraction of reclaimable copper and aluminum scrap, so that the resultant clean metal can be resold and reprocessed. The equipment used in that extraction process must be especially efficient to improve the purity of resulting material. To that effect, we, Amisy metal recycling machines, have been working hard to upgrade our equipment to better serve the growing market demand including the US market.

We are now supplying small-sized wire strippers, which is used for removing the insulation layer from various kinds of scrap wires with the diameter of 1 mm-42 mm; different model for different wire diameter: AMS-918A for diameter of 1 mm-25 mm, AMS-918F for diameter of 1 mm-30 mm, AMS-918KA for diameter of 1 mm-35 mm, AMS-918KOB for diameter of 1 mm-42 mm. And large-sized cable stripping machine, which is a heavy-duty stripping machine for high-volume stripping process, AMS-918B for diameter of 2 mm-85 mm, AMS-918B-1 for diameter of 10 mm-165 mm, so this machine supplied by us is mainly employed by large-scale wire/cable stripping business worldwide; also its multi-functions of processing single-core and double-core flat wires at one time contributes a lot to its popularity.

Mini AMS-400 copper wire granulator for household and small-scale recycling business; AMS-400 scrap copper wire granulator, a integrated one, for recovering automotive wires, telephone wires and cables; AMS600 copper/aluminum granulator for wires and cables with diameter that is not more than 20 mm; AMS-800 copper granulator with 99.99% purity rate for large-scale recycling business. They are the other featured wires/cables recycling equipments from us.

How to Sort Scrap Metal

Scrap Metals is generated by the disposal of items that are no longer serviceable or wanted. They are not biodegradable, therefore are well suitable for recycling. However, how to sort them for recycling is still a problem for many people.

The most important circle of sorting scrap metal is to separate ferrous meal from non-ferrous metal. It can be difficult to identify and sort scrap metal since some of them look the same. This is why we should always have a magnet! A magnet will be your good helper in identifying ferrous and non-ferrous metals. Ferrous metal is magnetic, including iron, steel and others; non-ferrous metal are all not magnetic like aluminum, copper and brass. You can put the first into one pile and latter into another pile.

Now let’s go to non-ferrous pile first.Copper, aluminum,brass, gold are all the valuable recyclable materials. Copper is lightweight and reddish in color. It may become greenish over time due to corrosion. In recycling process, it can be classified into three kinds:

Electrical wires. Some metal recyclers accept wire with the insulation on yet at a much lower price compared with wires which has been removed insulation by cable granulator.

Copper tubing. You also had better remove any brass fittings from the tubing, or scrap recycling companies likely offer you a lower price because of labor cost of removing the brass by them.
 

Copper tanks such as special and water heater tanks. These tanks are considered heavy copper and should be removed any attached insulation, covers and fittings.

Aluminum is a lightweight metal with a dull silver color. Sosa cans,lightweight lawn furniture and aluminum wire are considered light aluminum while all other aluminum is considered heavy aluminum. Aluminum wire can be stripped by wire stripping machine. Pure aluminum wire will be given higher price.

Then, let’s come to the pile of ferrous metal. Tin, lead and steel are the main kinds of ferrous metal.Steel is a very solid and strong material that normally will be rust colored if weathed. Lead item will be dark gray in color. Lead is often used for piping, scuba diving weights and fishing plumbs. If you have lead batteries , please put them in another pile as well. Car batteries are a good example. Tin can be bent and will make a cracking sound as you bend it. You can make classification of them according to these characteristics. 

How to Recycle Radiator Scrap?

How to Recycle Radiator Scrap

Radiator is widely used in cars, trucks and other automobiles. Radiators were also once an essential part of a home heating system. In today’ s life, AC radiator is more known by commons. Before discussing how to recycle radiator, let’s have a general knowledge of this three kinds of radiators.

Radiator in older cars were likely made of brass or copper. In newer cars, radiators are typically constructed out of aluminum which is lighter and less expensive. Radiators also have headers or tanks at each end to hold the coolant. These can be made of brass, aluminum or plastic.

Unlike a car radiator, heating radiator is used in your home for heating.It appeared in mid-1980s and fell out of use in the mid-1900s. This kind radiator is always made of cast iron.

The present air conditioner is usually made of compressor, radiator, throttle and evaporator. Gas and fluid are exchanged in radiator, at the same time, the pressure and temperature change. Without radiator, it can’t cool and warm the house. Now radiator is usually made of copper tube and aluminum foil. Both of them have great recyclable value.

Now let’s say how to recycle them. Unless you work on cars yourself, you won’t have chance to see radiator and do not really want to. The best way for you to recycle your radiator is to let your mechanic remove it and recycle it, or recycle your entire car. Radiator in your home should also be recycled at a scrap metal yard.

The recycling of AC radiator is a little complex since the copper tube is covered by aluminum foil. To recycle it, we can use radiator copper&aluminum stripper. Amisy radiator recycling machine can strip the radiator whose copper tube center distance is 19 mm, 21 mm and 25 mm. The scrap radiator fin should be put into the inlet smoothly and the stripped copper pipes and aluminum foil can be discharged automatically. After being separated, the copper tube will keep complete and the aluminum foil will become irregular pieces.

E-waste Recycling in Australia

Electronic waste is one of the fastest growing contributors to Australia’s waste stream. As more and more outdated electronic equipment ends up in landfill, the negative impacts of e-waste on the environment and humans will increase.

Electronic waste can come in many forms including computers, photocopiers, printers, faxes, monitors, batteries and mobile phones.



According to public data on internet, in 2008, there has been an estimated 37 million computers in Australia that were already in landfill or sent to landfill. With over 3 million computers being sold every year, 75% of them will end up in landfill. In 2007/8 16.8 million computers reached their end of life. Of this, only 9% will be recycled. In the following years, this problem will be more serious. Besides, 17 million televisions were either in landfill or sent to landfill in 2008.The growing e-waste continues to be a troublesome problem for the environment.

Some of these items can be highly toxic and environmentally damaging. The following harmful substances can be found in everyday e-waste.

• Lead in cathode ray tubes and solder
• Mercury in switches and housing 
• Arsenic in cathode ray tubes
• Antimony trioxide as flame retardant 
• Selenium in circuit boards
• Cadmium in semiconductors
• Cobalt in steel for magnets

When e-waste is sent to landfill, poisonous substances can leach from decomposing water into the environment.So how to recycle and reuse these e-waste is a pressing problem for Australia. E-waste like telephone wires, household cables, AC radiator are not difficult to recycle. With a copper cable granulator or AC radiator recycling machine, you can easily turn waste into profit.

Let Me Lead You to Know Some Quality Metal Recycling Machines

Metal recycling business is a promising industry compared with other recycling business for metal is widely used and of great value. In the recycling process, if we want to or will expand your business.

What kinds of metal recycling machines do you need? That depends on the main kinds of your scrap.

If you have a large amount of copper wire scrap，such as one ton processing quantity, copper granulator is the best choice. It is used to separate insulation from copper core.It is an all-in-one unit which combines many functions in one machine, including conveying, dust collecting, and separating process. Amisy is a reliable manufacturer of copper cable graulator. It has five models, processing capacity ranging from 100 kg/h to 800 kg/h.

Of course, if your copper wire scrap is thick or without large amount, wire strippers are suitable. Amisy has rich kind of wire stripping machines for sale. The processing diameter ranges from 1 mm to 165 mm. No matter you need manual wire stripping machine or automatic wire stripper, we can offer you.

If you are in global metal scrap trading business, you may also find some metal scraps which are not clean or too large to store, transport, etc. Herein, these machines like metal crushers, metal shredder or scrap baling press is needed. And when they are not in use, you can rent them to others.

Once I ask our manager how I can let our customers our machines are good. Our manage said that we use quality raw material to ensure its life and our design to ensure its processing effect. Welcome to our website to know them http://www.metalrecyclingmachine.com/

Copper Alloy and Their Application

Copper is easily alloyed with other metals. It is generally divided into red copper, bronze, brass and cupronickel. Red Copper Pure copper is in red color, but not all red copper is pure copper, because sometimes people will add some deoxygenation elements.or other elements to improve its quality and function. Its copper content is over 99%, melting point is 1083 ℃ and density is 8.9 g/cm³. It is of high ductility, malleability, thermal and electrical conductivity. However, the light impurities has great effect on thermal and electrical conductivity. Therefore, every year, half amount of red copper will be refined to be pure copper, then used in electrical industry. After these copper wire can’t be used anymore, they are still of high recycling value. Copper cable granulator and wire stripping machines are two popular choices in copper recycling. Red copper is also of good resistance to corrosion in air, sea water, non-oxidative acid, soda, saline solution and multiple organic acid, therefore it is widely used in chemical industry. Bronze Generally speaking, bronze is an alloy of copper and tin. The content of tin is usually above 3%. Compared with red copper, bronze is of high intensity, low melting point, good castability, anti-friction and bright color . It is also harder than iron and pure copper, therefore it is very suitable for casting various utensils, machinery parts, bearing, gear, etc. Bronze is the earliest copper alloy used in history. And from early days, people have known different percentage of copper, tin or other elements like zinc and manganese will meet different purpose. For example, bronze chime has relatively high tin content, thus making a sonorous sound when it is struck. Zinc can improve hardness, so bearing usually contain a spot of zinc. Brass Brass consist of copper and zinc. It is usually used in manufacturing valve, water pipe, internal and external connecting pipe of air conditioner, radiator, etc. Brass can be generally divided into common brass and special brass. Common brass is the alloy of copper and zinc, which has been mentioned above. The content of zinc in brass changes greatly, which lead to the diversification of its tissue at room temperature.,thus causing different function. Special brass is adding some other elements into the common brass. The often-added elements are lead, tin, aluminum,manganese, etc. The purpose of this way is for improving tensile strength and weldability. More information to read at http://www.copper-wire-recycling.com/news/copper_wire/Uses-of-copper-alloy.html

Recycling in Canada

Canada always throw too much. Since 1950, Canadians have consumed as much as all the generations before us combined. By the age of 6 month, the average Canadian has consumed the same amount of resource as the average person in the developing world consumers in a lifetime. Presently, 80% of municipal and industrial solid waste in Canada is disposed of by land filling with the remainder disposed through recycling, resource recovery and incineration. So they need to pay more attention to recycling.

More than that, Canada is not only forced to do recycling, recycling itself also plays an important role in Canadian economy and environment. Research has shown the recycling industry creates 10 times more employment and revenue than the waste industry. An informal survey by CARI of the Canadian recycling industry concluded it directly employs about 34,000 Canadian workers, and indirectly creates jobs for around 85,000 Canadians. Studies from Europe, the U.S. And Canada all show the same results: the recycling industry generates jobs and boosts the economy. Using recycled material helps manufacturers reduce production costs and make them competitive. The industry drives the innovation of new technologies and products, which brings new energy for economic growth. As for environment, we all have common sense on this.

In order to promote recycling, Canada has been perfecting its recycling system and each province also pushes out various recycling programs according to the local situation. People have easy access to these recycling facilities and recycling center. Take Albert for example. Albert has different organizations combined to promote recycling in different fields. The Alberta Recycling Management Authority is one of them. It is responsible for administering the surcharge that has been added to the price of electronics, paint, and tires sold in the province since 205 and the province’s household hazardous waste disposal program. Another separate management authority, the Beverage Container Management Board is responsible for recycling of beverage containers. And The Recycling Council of Alberta is a registered charity which has promoted recycling in Alberta since 1987. Besides these organizations crossing the province, each municipalities of Alberta has convenient curbside facilities. Most of Alberta’s most populous municipalities have blue box, blue bag, or blue bin recycling container programs. As for recycling machines, they also like to purchase some practical machines like copper cable granulator for their recycling career.

A Must-have in Your Scrap Yard

Wire stripping machine is so common that we even will forget it when we talk about wire&cable recycling machines. But no matter for individual or small scrap yard, owning a wire stripping machine is very useful. Why? Because wire stripping machine can process various kinds of wire and cable with high efficiency and good effect like copper wire, aluminum wire, telephone wire, computer wire, PVC wire, fiber,coaxial cable, electronics wire, etc.

Traditionally, in order to separate insulation from metal core, people use wire stripper manually. Today, however, machines has been created to assist this kind of work to make it more effective and quicker. If you search online, you can find thousands of them. Then how does wire stripping machine work? Which of them have good performance?

The important part of wire stripping machine is its blade. Its working principle is making insulation and metal core separated, thus getting copper or aluminum.The blade can be changed according to the diameter and material of wires. Since the hardness of wire is high and working speed or wire stripping machine is fast, the blade usually adopts high-speed steel or tungsten steel and will pass several strict manufacturing processes like heat treatment over HRC 60°before it is born. So when we check whether it is a good wire stripper machine, the blade is a key point.

There are some well known brands in each country. In US, Bluerock Tools is a reliable designer and retailer of wire stripping machine. Its famous model is WS-212, known for 9 channels of cutters with the UL rated starter switch. In China, Amisy wire stripping machine has been popular for many years.

US Trade in Copper and Copper Alloy Scrap

Copper is in short supply. Trade in copper and copper alloy scrap is thriving because copper can be recycled through copper wire granulator or wire stripper.
Copper has good regenerative properties which make it be recycled again. Copper scrap (copper) refers to the copper mental without service life resulting from early copper consumption and savings, so the history of copper consumption directly affects the future for the amount of copper scrap recycling.

Regions Trade Patterns of the Copper Scrap 
The overall characteristics of the global Copper scrap trade are that exports from the developed countries, to Germany, Japan and other industrial production countries, but in America and Europe as well as some other important features. In America, the United States is one of the important transit countries in copper scrap trade. Canada, Mexico and Chile are the main supplier of copper scrap of America. 

As for export situation in 2006, for example, more than half of the copper scrap in these countries are exported to the United States. As the world's biggest exporter of copper scrap, a large share of US Imported from these three countries copper scrap is to export to other countries. 

Germany and Belgium are the main destination for copper scrap export to other European countries. On the one hand, the industrial production of the two countries need a lot of copper scrap, on the other hand, the two countries exports to other countries such as China a large number of copper scrap.

In addition, copper scrap recyclingis affected by many factors, especially the absolute level of copper price. High copper prices can greatly improve the enthusiasm of social copper scrap recycling and can improve the overall recovery of copper scrap to a certain extent. And as the whole society's attention to the economic sustainable development, the recycle of resources is paid attention to the government and the social from all walks of life, all which can help improve the recovery rate of copper scrap and our scrap of copper scrap on the whole.

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A Brief Introduction of Different Cables

There are generally two kinds of cables: armored cable and non-metallic cable, that is, AC cable and NM cable. What are they and their difference?

Armored cable is a type of power-conducting cable that is covered in a metal sheath. In most cases, it consists of a bundle of wires covered in a metal tube, which may be covered in a plastic insulation layer. The various types of metal-covered cable are made in a similar fashion. At the core of the cable is a wire bundle. There are three basic types of metal-covered cable; all are referred to as armored cable.

BX is one of the earliest types of electrical cable developed for both residential and commercial uses in the early part of the 20th century. It is a collection of plastic-coated insulated wires (typically 14- or 12-gauge), bundled together and protected by a ribbon-like metal sheathing. Like any other cable, if the armor is nicked, cut, or shredded, the wires inside can be compromised. BX's armor, while much stronger than NM's vinyl, can still be pierced by a determined and well-placed nail or screw.

When electrical wiring needs extra protection, metal-clad (MC) cable is a great solution, and is often required by electrical codes. Metal-clad cable comes in several varieties, but the type you’ll find at most home centers is three insulated wires (two circuit conductors and a green equipment grounding conductor) protected by a flexible armor usually made from aluminum. MC cable is identified by the gauge of the wire, not the diameter of the armor. The most common sizes are 14 gauge, 12 gauge and 10 gauge. It offers protection from fire, vibration, gnawing pests and physical harm in general.

Hybrid fiber-coaxial (HFC) is a telecommunications industry term for a broadband network that combines optical fiber and coaxial cable. It has been commonly employed globally by cable television operators since the early 1990s …

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Copper Resource’s Distribution and Productivity

Copper Resource’s Distribution
The content of copper in lithosphere is about 0.01%. In some copper mines, the percentage is up to 3%-5%. Copper in nature usually exists in the form of compounds. In 2014, USGS did an evaluation for the global copper ore deposit, finding that the copper content in those explored copper mineral is about 2.1 billion tons and 3.5 billion in pending exploration.

According to the data of USGS in 2015, global copper reserve is about 0.7billion tons. Of them, Chile owns 209 million tons;Australia, 93 million;Peru, 68 million; America, 35 million; Mexico, 38 million; China, 30 million; Russia, 30 million; Indonesia, 25 million; Poland, 26 million, Zambia, 20 million; Congo (gold), 20 million; Canada 11 million; Kazakhstan, 60 million; the rest all countries, 90 million.

From the above data, we can see that copper resource is mainly distributed in those regions, North America, Latin America, and Central Africa. As for countries, copper resource mainly exists in those countries, Chile, America, Zambia, Russia and Peru. Among them, Chile has the richest copper resources, occupying29.86% of the global storage. At the same time, Chile is the world’s largest copper producer and exporter.

Distribution of Copper Resources in China

China is not a country with rich copper resources. Its main producing area is Eastern China, occupying 51.84% of the national total production. Of them, Anhui and Jiangxi Provinces occupy 30%. Yun’ nan and Inner Mongolia are also the main producing areas.

Copper Productivity
According to the USGS ‘s data in 2015, the global copper productivity in 2013 and 2014 is shown in the following table:

Global Copper Productivity （Unit: Thousand Ton)
Nations	2013	2014
United States	1250	1370
Australia	990	1000
Canada	632	680
Chili	5780	5800
China	1600	1620
Congo(gold)	970	1100
Indonesia	504	400
Kazakhstan	446	430
Mexico	480	520
Peru	1380	1400
Poland	429	425
Russia	833	850
Zambia	760	730
Other countries	2200	2400
Global Productivity	18300	18700

Sourced:USGS

According to Peru Business Daily, CRU Consulting released a report, saying Peru is still the third largest copper producer on the world in 2013. The top two countries are Chile and China. American ranks the forth, followed by Australia, Congo, Zambia, Russia, Canada, Indonesia, etc.

Main Copper Production Countries: Chili, Australia, Peru, America, China, Russia, Indonesia, Congo, Zambia,etc.

Main Copper Consumption Countries: America, Japan, German, Russia,China, Italy, Belgium, South Korea, UK.

Main Copper Exporting Countries: Chile,Canada, Peru, Mexico.

Main Copper Importing Countries: America, Japan, France, UK, Italy, Belgium, China.

At present, copper’s supply can meet the need as a whole, but we shouldn’t forget copper is nonrenewable resource. Copper recycling is also necessary for sustainable development. For reaching same quality as refined copper, copper scrap recycling needs suitable and quality machine like copper cable granulator. Hope this page help you know better about copper resource.

How to Set Up Your Scrap Yard?

Scrap metal business has a huge market because recycled and scrap metal is cheaper than pure metals, therefore a wide scope of businesses can benefit from buying these raw materials at a cheaper price. If you are thinking of starting a scrap metal business, you need to know and consider a lot.

First, you need to be able to identify and sort different metals. Buyers will purchase specific metals by weight.So you must can accurately identify your scrap for sale. To do this, a magnet is very useful, which can check the metal’s ferromagnetism. At the same time, you should know the difference of basic metal scrap kinds. For example, iron is ferromagnetic, strong, and lighter than most other metals except for aluminum. Pure copper is slightly pink, while lower grades are a reddish brown.Copper is non-ferromagnetic and slightly heavier than iron. Another point you should also remember is that within these basic categories, there are also many different grades with their own properties.

After you know some about the market, you can start to set up your own scrap yard or recycling center. First, you should find a place. Scrap yards require a lot of space to store and process materials. Different states, countries and municipalities have their own regulations regarding business and the collection and processing of materials. Check with state and city government offices so you can find a place where you can set up the kind of scrap business you want to have. Then you must ensure yourself have all the necessary licenses to open a salvage yard. If need, you also need to do an environmental impact study. They will test and verify the impact of your business on the surrounding ground water and ecosystems.

To keep the normal operation of your scrap yard, many things still wait for you to do. One thing is keeping track of metal prices. Check metal prices regularly to be aware of what to charge and what to pay for scrap. To do this, simply use the internet to search for”commodity trading prices.” Be sure to ask local contacts in case you area sells at a different rates.

Another thing is to invest in equipment and machinery. In order to sort your scrap, you will likely need to break down large items into smaller component parts. Some objects can be easily taken apart with simple tools, while others will require a machine. Take copper wire as an example. Most scrapper choose to strip it or granulate it to get the full copper value. At this moment, you need copper cable granulator or wire stripping machine. For other metal like steel with big volume, you may need scrap baling press while for aluminum cans, you may need metal crusher.

The last but not the least, you need to build network within the industry like building relationships with trucking services, other scrap yards and manufacturers that use recycled materials. The business is all about buying and reselling. Advertising on website and joining some related associates are also very helpful for letting people know your scrap yard and helping you find the buyers.

Of course, there are still many details you should pay attention to, but these are more important. Amisy Metal Recycling Machinery like to grow with you together!

How Do We Assess Present Scrap Metal Market

Whether you are a small-scale scrapper or a large scrapper yard or refinery, prices of scrap metals are always very important. When scrap prices are in downward trend for a long period, recycling rates decrease with the trend and scrap metal firms struggle to make profit. So how to judge the present scrap metal market？

Present Scrap Metal Price Is Stable

Herein, I pay more attention to copper and aluminum scrap. As I observe, the price of copper and aluminum scrap is stable and with a little increase(as shown in the following table).

Scrap Kinds	Price	Change	Change%	Unit
Al/Cu Radiators	1.01	0.01↑	1%	$US/Lb
Al/Cu Radiators/Fe	0.87	0.01↑	1.16%	$US/Lb
Aluminum Radiators	0.44	0.01↑	2.33%	$US/Lb
E.C. Aluminum Wire	0.70	0.02↑	2.94%	$US/Lb
#1 Copper Bare Bright	2.15	0.05↑	2.38%	$US/Lb
#1 Insulated Copper Wire 85% Recovery	1.59	0.03↑	1.92%	$US/Lb
#2 Insulated Copper Wire 50% Recovery	0.78	0.02↑	2.63%	$US / Lb
Copper Radiators	1.35	0.02↑	1.5%	$US / Lb
Cu/Al Radiators /Fe	0.87	0.01↑	1.16%	$US / Lb

Table.1 Parts of Copper and Aluminum price    Sourcing: Scrapmonster

Which Factors Influence Scrap Price

Keeping an eye on the scrap prices certainly can help you, but knowing what determines the current prices is also important because you can better assess the change in prices at your scrap yard. There are several factors affecting the prices of scrap metal commodities through the US and international scenes, that is, market Price, industry demand, quantity, location, time of year and international trading.

Although we ca see market price on LME or other site, it is not an expected price that a customer of a scrap yard would receive. Market prices are determined for commodities at the end of their life cycle.

Different industries such as construction, electronics and package directly affect the commodities market and scrap. If the electronics industry is slow, the demand for copper will go down and usually affect the price of the materials.

Quantity can influence the price to some extent. If a scrap yard hauls and ships more copper scrap than another location, their prices usually will be higher because they need more to keep its operation.

Also along with quantity, the location of the scrap yard has to do with the current prices..Those which is closer to ports will generally be able to pay more money tor materials because of less travel cost.

Just like the markets with the holidays, different times of the year and weather can greatly affect the output of new product. In turn, it will affect the demand and scrap price.

On a global scale, international trade is a large factor influencing scrap prices. Countries like China and India who have a large amounts of imports of scrap metal can affect the scrap prices globally.

Give An Objective Assessment by Yourself

Since we know the present market and the factors affecting scrap price, we can better assess the trend and what to do for future. Now it is a relatively good period for metal scrap market for its trend is up. How can we win a step? If you have adequate capital or ambition, you can buy some machine like copper cable granulator, radiator recycling machine, wire stripping machine,etc., which is good for improving efficiency and decreasing labor cost. With quality machine, accurate analysis and perfect recycling system, you can do better!