Huntington Machinery | BUSHELING REMOVAL

Nearly all of the waste and by-product stream from a manufacturing plant could and should be recycled. Every manufacturing plant generates broken or unused machinery, unwanted by-product and metal scrap. Huntington Machinery has developed a busheling removal and recycling program that handles your scrap materials in an efficient, comprehensive way. We abide by all OSHA disposal and hazardous material requirements. Our systems have been designed with the goal of eliminating your cost of managing scrap by turning it into a profitable asset for your organization.

WHAT DRIVES RECYCLING?

For waste materials, the short answer is environmental awareness, regulation and the decreasing availability of landfills. For metal scrap, the solution is much more complex. In this ever changing business climate, we’ve seen it all from plants being shut down, manufacturers facing monumental downturns, companies going bankrupt or taking their business off shore to avoid taxation and U.S. regulation. The reasons are endless. Many plant equipment production items are liquidated and others change hands through outright sales or online auctions.

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 potentially a profitable opportunity to be seized. Take aluminum for example. Producing the metal from bauxite requires enormous amounts of electrical energy. But it’s 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.

WASTE MATERIAL

Waste streams, even if they consist of toxic or hazardous chemicals, have potential market value as long as they are uncontaminated by extraneous material. 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.

You may have several tons of scrap cast iron chips with an expected value in the marketplace… If there is anyone willing to buy it. When a market is relatively illiquid, it can take eons to empty that tank, clear out the chips and make a profit at the same time. Getting rid of clean, uncontaminated metal scrap material can be difficult and extremely time consuming. We take that risk and contract with you to demolish and remove unwanted equipment and metallic 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’s a challenge to unload small lots. Any scrap middleman or broker you use will need to be compensated, usually through some sort of commission. Contract directly with Huntington Machinery and bypass the middlemen fees.