Industry · 06

Heavy Plant
wear and GET.

Ground-engaging tools, wear plate, undercarriage and mill liners. High-tonnage streams where a small rate difference across a change-out is worth real money.

Change-out schedulingHigh-tonnage streamsPickup across WA
Why tonnage sharpens the rate

At change-out volumes, a few
cents a kilo is a budget line.

GET and liner change-outs move serious tonnage in a short window. At that scale the difference between a blended rate and a properly segregated one stops being academic. We separate the carbide-faced and alloy-rich components from the plain wear steel, assay what warrants it, and price each stream on its own – then schedule collection around the change-out rather than after it.

Plant · WA-wide
What we accept

Plant wear we buy
and a few we leave behind.

  • Bucket teeth & adapters

    Teeth, adapters, lips and shrouds off excavators, loaders and draglines.

  • Wear plate & chute liners

    Wear plate, liner plate and chute liners, hardfaced or plain.

  • Mill liners & media

    Manganese and chrome-alloy mill liners, shell plates, lifter bars, grinding media.

  • Undercarriage

    Track shoes, idlers, rollers, sprockets and chain off tracked plant.

  • Carbide-faced wear parts

    Carbide-faced and hardfaced components where the insert is worth more than the body.

  • Change-out campaigns

    Full change-out campaigns with bins staged and collection scheduled to your window.

Our Process

How It Works

From the change-out schedule to the payment run, every step is built around segregating the streams before the tonnage moves.

Change-out Scheduled

Bins staged before the shut, not after it. Photos and expected tonnage in, indicative rate back in four hours.

Pre-start · Bins staged
Segregate & Assay

Carbide-faced and alloy-rich components separated from plain wear steel, then assayed where the grade warrants it.

100% · By stream
Weigh & Log

Each stream weighed as its own line on a 60-tonne NMI-certified weighbridge, photographed and ticketed against your reference.

60T · NMI-certified
Payment Sent

EFT within 48 hours of you signing the assay, with each stream priced and shown on its own line.

48H · EFT after sign-off
4 hours
to an indicative rate

Send the change-out scope and an expected tonnage and you get an indicative rate back the same shift. Bins are staged on site ahead of the window so the wear parts go straight into the right container as they come off.

  • Indicative rate inside four hours
  • Bins staged ahead of the shut
  • Collection booked to your window
100%
of loads segregated

A change-out bin is rarely one grade. Manganese liners, chrome-alloy plate, hardfaced GET and carbide-faced components all price differently, and a blended bin gets the lowest of them.

  • Carbide and alloy-rich parts split out
  • XRF where the grade warrants it
  • Plain wear steel priced as its own line
60T
NMI-certified weighbridge

At change-out tonnages the ticket is the audit trail. You get a breakdown by weight, stream and grade rather than one campaign total.

  • Third-party calibration certificates on file
  • Itemised weight and grade reports
  • Photographed and ticketed before sort
48 hours
from sign-off to EFT

Once the assay is signed, payment goes out by EFT within two business days. The traceability PDF lands with the funds - weighbridge tickets, stream split, downstream destination.

  • EFT, no chasing invoices
  • Each stream priced on its own line
  • Downstream destination disclosed
Related industries

Shutdown adjacent. Same yard.

Why work with us

Why work with Drill Bits Recyclers.

A pallet of worn teeth or a full mill reline – the commitments are the same.

Weighed
Every stream
NMI-certified 60t weighbridge. Photographed and ticketed before sort.
Segregated
Every change-out
Carbide-faced and alloy-rich parts split from plain wear steel before pricing.
Paid fast
48 hours
EFT within two business days of you signing the assay.
Audited
Every job
One signed PDF per consignment - weights, grades, downstream destination.
ESG & responsible sourcing

Plant wear that counts on your report.

A change-out moves more tonnage in a week than most sites move in a year. Every tonne recovered instead of landfilled displaces primary production, stays in-country, and shows up as a real recovery figure on your Scope 3 disclosure.

~70%
Less embedded CO₂
Recycled alloy steel carries a fraction of the embedded carbon of the ore-to-furnace route - the largest single lever on a change-out's footprint.
vs. virgin material extraction
1 hop
From your site to smelter
Direct downstream offtake to certified smelters and re-rollers - no broker chain, no offshore re-handling, no traceability gap between your gate and the next furnace.
Downstream destination on every PDF
100%
WA-sourced & traceable
Every kilo we handle comes from Australian end-of-life plant. No conflict-mineral exposure on the carbide fraction, no gap in your due-diligence chain.
OECD Due Diligence aligned
Embedded CO₂e per tonne · alloy steel
Cradle-to-gate, indicative ranges from secondary & primary steel LCA studies.
Primary steel iron ore, BF/BOF route
~2.3 t CO₂e
Recycled steel collection, sort, EAF feed
~0.7 t CO₂e

Numbers vary by ore grade, furnace route and electricity mix – cite your own LCA in formal reports. We provide tonnages and downstream destination on every traceability PDF.

Aligned with
NGERNational Greenhouse & Energy Reporting
GRIGlobal Reporting Initiative 306: Waste
ISOISO 14001 Environmental Management
3TGOECD Conflict Minerals Due Diligence
Change-out coming up?

Get paid on the grades you
actually pulled off.

Bins staged before the shut, streams segregated on arrival, payment inside 48 hours of sign-off.

Bins staged ahead of the shut • Streams priced separately • Paid in 48 hours