We specialise in the metals a general scrap yard can't grade.
Drill Bits Recyclers is a Western Australian owned and operated business, buying tungsten carbide, drill bits, drill rods and specialty tooling from businesses across the state. Each load is sorted, graded and paid on the metal it actually contains.
How we operate
Specialty metals are the whole business, and that focus is what makes accurate grading possible. A single drum off a workshop bench and a shutdown clearance off a mine site go through the same sorting, the same scale and the same paperwork at the Malaga yard.
Payment is by EFT once the final weight and grading are confirmed. Around 80% of loads that are ready to settle are paid the same day; anything that still needs sorting takes longer. Every quotation states its own expiry, because the material and the market move. The yard works by appointment, so call ahead and we’ll meet you at the gate.
Matteo Burlet.
Founder & Director · Drill Bits Recyclers
Matteo founded Drill Bits Recyclers to focus on tungsten carbide, drill bits and specialty alloys that are often misgraded as mixed scrap.
He is the main point of contact for material questions, quotes and job scoping. Send photos of the material, its location and an approximate quantity so he has something concrete to assess.
What we commit to
Four things you can hold us to on every load.
The metal, the site, the paperwork
and the export.
Most jobs need all four.
Materials we buy
Documentation you can use
Every collection comes with weight and recovery documentation. Here is what the record covers, and what we do and don’t claim.
Sorted material, recorded by batch - Weight recorded
Every collection gets full weight documentation, so the number behind the payment is on file.
- Recovery documented
Every collection also gets recovery documentation that can sit behind your own sustainability reporting.
- Independent research
Furberg, Arvidsson and Molander, Journal of Cleaner Production 209 (2019), found impact reductions of 22 to 100%, depending on the category measured.
- Claim kept in context
The reported range varies by impact category. Drill Bits Recyclers does not claim a reduction figure specific to its own yard.
Sorted material, recorded by batch 
A member of the
Australian Drilling
Industry Association.
Drill Bits Recyclers is listed in the ADIA member directory under Manufacturers and Suppliers, across the blasthole, environmental, geotechnical, HDD, mineral and waterwell sectors.
ADIA is the national association for drilling contractors, suppliers, consultants and regulators. Membership keeps us close to the operators and contractors whose worn tooling we buy and grade.
On Whadjuk Noongar boodja.
Drill Bits Recyclers acknowledges the Whadjuk Noongar people as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which our Malaga depot operates, and pays respect to Elders past, present and emerging.
We also acknowledge the many First Nations communities across the lands we work on, from the Pilbara to the Goldfields, the Kimberley and the Mid West, and recognise their continuing connection to country, waters and culture.
Send photos.
Get an estimate back.
Send photos and a rough weight before you move anything, and you’ll have an assessment to work from.