Questions we get asked before the first load moves

Tungsten carbide, drill bits, drill rods and other tungsten tooling, carbide inserts, end mills and cutters, tricones, dies and punches, grinding sludge, GET and wear parts, high-speed steel, manganese, stainless steel, titanium, nickel alloys such as Inconel, and tantalum. If you’re not sure whether something on your list belongs on this one, send a photo and ask.

We buy from businesses only. We don’t take jewellery, coins, precious metals for personal sale, household scrap, hazardous or radioactive material, biohazards, general waste, pressure vessels, oils or coolants.

Price is set after the material is sorted and graded on composition, condition, and how much steel or contamination is attached to it. Tungsten and other high value materials are priced against the current market price for that material, scaled for grade and tonnage.

We don’t publish a flat rate, because a flat rate would be wrong for most loads. Two drums of nominally the same material can settle differently on grade and contamination alone. Send photos and a rough weight and you’ll get a figure for what you actually have.

For a qualifying load, there’s no cost for the bin and no cost for the freight to get it to you. It goes out on a backload, a truck that already has freight booked in your direction. The bin is a dedicated container for your material, an IBC pod or one of our skip bins, and it moves out again on your existing backload; we don’t run a skip truck to pick it up.

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. If material still needs sorting or processing, settlement takes longer and the timing depends on the work involved.

Yes, though it costs you. Once different materials are mixed, they’re sorted and priced individually rather than at the rate of whichever material in the pile is worth most. Keep carbide, steel and alloys apart at the source and your return improves. If you can’t, we’ll still take the load and sort it on our end.

For an otherwise acceptable load, excess dirt, wood, plastic, non-complying steel or other non-payable material is deducted from the gross weight. If a one-tonne load contains 150 kg of non-complying material, payment is based on 850 kg. Hazardous or radioactive material, biohazards, pressure vessels, oils, coolants and general waste are not accepted.

No, but it helps. Pre-sorted loads price more accurately and move through the yard faster. If you’re running an ongoing program rather than a one-off clean-out, we can help set up a sorting system on your site so material doesn’t get mixed in the first place.

There is no single published cutoff. Collection and bin decisions are made case by case, based on the customer, location, material and weight. Bins generally go to repeat customers. A one-off bin for drill bits normally needs more than 2,000 kg. Smaller B2B loads can still be brought to Malaga by appointment or quoted individually.

Worn tooling can be hard to tell apart by eye. Tungsten carbide, drill steel and mixed alloys can look similar once they’ve been in service. Our guide to identifying tungsten carbide covers density, spark test, magnet response and visual wear cues you can check yourself. For a confirmed grade, send photos or book a walk-through and we’ll assess it properly before any price is set.

Every load gets a weight record and a batch reference tied to what was sorted and where it went. If you need that formatted for procurement or sustainability reporting, tell us when you book in and we’ll set it up.

Yes. We cover all of Western Australia and arrange each collection directly with the customer rather than running a fixed loop. Metro Perth collections are normally same day or next day. Pilbara and Goldfields jobs are assessed case by case and are generally collected within the same week.

A bin drop means we leave a dedicated container, an IBC pod or skip bin, on your site for you to fill over time; bins are generally set up for repeat customers. A collection is a one-off job once your load is ready. Both run on the same backload freight, so neither costs you for the truck.

XRF is reserved for specific incoming material that warrants specialist identification. Our identification guide covers density, spark, magnet and visual checks, and we assess and grade material as part of quoting your load. If a particular job may need on-site instrument testing, ask and we’ll talk through what’s possible.

Yes. If tooling is proprietary or you’d rather it wasn’t identifiable downstream, tell us before it moves and we’ll talk through how it’s handled.

We can. Every batch is recorded by material, weight and destination, and we can format that reporting to suit an internal audit trail or a specific stakeholder request rather than handing over a generic docket. Ask when you book us in.

Yes, this is a genuine part of what we do for workshops and sites generating worn tooling continuously. We’ll help work out where bins sit and what gets segregated at the point of use, so carbide doesn’t end up in the general steel skip.

Yes. We can run a practical session on site, during a yard visit or as part of shutdown planning: what to look for, what to keep separate, and why sorted metal is worth more than the same metal mixed.