Turning Your Busheling Into an Asset that Improves Your Bottom Line

Nearly every manufacturing plant waste and by-product stream can, and should, be recycled. Every manufacturing plant generates broken or unsude  machinery, unwanted by-product and metal scrap.

 

Huntington Machinery has developed a busheling removal/recycling program, which handles your scrap materials in a highly efficient manner, abiding by all OSHA disposal and hazardious material requirements. Our goal is to help you manage your scrap materials as an asset.... not just a cost of doing business. We have designed systems involving all types of scrap materials and waste handling.

 

Our busheling/recycling services can be performed at virtually any facility. Our perspective as a used plant manufacturing sales broker differs from a firm which offers only metal and machinery waste management consulting services, or only waste hauling. We have dealt with all imaginble circumstances involved in handling and processing industrial scrap and understand the "real world" of efficient production as your key objective.

What Drives Recycling?
For waste materials, the short answer is environmental regulation and the decreasing availability of landfills. For metalic scrap, the answer is more complex. There are the normal events in the business world. Plants close, Tier auto parts suppliers face industry demand down-turns. Scrap buyers go bankrupt or default on contract sales, soft markets do not consume available metal scrap production, metal use technology changes—the reasons are endless. Many plant equipment production items are liquidated through on-site auctions. Others change hands through outright sales or on-line auctions. Just like the clearance rack in the clothing department at the local store, recycling of used machinery saves money.

 

 

Take aluminum, for example. Producing the metal from bauxite requires enormous amounts of electrical energy. But it is possible to obtain equivalent aluminum ingots by reprocessing existing aluminum scrap, a much less energy-intensive approach. In this case, recycling the scrap saves not only the cost of mining and extraction; it reduces energy consumption as well. If you accept the proposition that there is value in scrap and waste material, and you are willing to make some procedural changes in the way you handle it in your plant, there is a potentially profitable opportunity to be seized.

Segregation is Good... When it Comes to Metal Scrap
The old adage is true: If you put a drop of fine wine in a barrel of sewage, you’ve got sewage. And if you put a drop of sewage in a barrel of wine, you’ve still got sewage. Waste streams--even if they consist of toxic or hazardous chemicals--have potential market value only as long as they are uncontaminated by extraneous material.

The idea of ensuring the segregation of the many waste streams in a plant can seem daunting. Look at it this way. In some measure, the

financial performance of your plant is judged superior to the extent it reduces operating costs. Reducing operating cost by simply scaling back on production rates is not a viable solution. There is still an obligation to make scheduled quantities of product and, in terms of raw material, manufacturing takes what it takes. If, on the other hand, you could find low-cost raw material that meets your specifications, it would be wise to purchase it.

Another manufacturing plant may have something it considers to be excess inventory, unwanted by-product or scrap. And the material might fit your needs quite nicely, especially if there is some assurance of a constant supply. But no purchasing department will take a chance by purchasing mixed, contaminated raw material. The same logic that keeps your plant from buying mixed material prevents you from being able to sell it to others.

 

Our Pricing and Service is Negotiable
You may have several tons of scrap cast iron chips with an expected value in the marketplace--if there is anyone willing to buy the lot. When a market is relatively illiquid, it can take some time to empty that tank and clear out the chips and make a profit at the same time. Getting rid of clean, uncontaminated metal scrap material is sometimes difficult--supply and demand in its finest form. We take that risk and contract with you to demolish and remove unwanted equipment and metalic trash.

Regardless of market liquidity, disposal can be like horse trading with its haggling, bargaining and negotiating. Some factors that affect price are purity, quantity, timing and a feeling for what the market will bear. Just as it is harder to dispose of material of lower purity, it is harder to unload small lots.  Any scrap middleman or broker you use will need to be compensated, usually through some sort of commission. Contract direct with Huntinton Machinery and bypass the middlemen fees. When charged with the responsibility to rid your plant of metal waste, broken machinery and scrap we are the logical contractor.

Our fleet of roll-off trucks, fork-lifts and tractors can get the recycling job done.
We can offer you solutions in which scrap is viewed as an asset that impacts and improves your bottom line.
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