Carbide inserts, end mills, cutters, taps and reamers, dies and punches, HSS tooling, stainless offcuts and grinding sludge build up in every tool room. We separate each stream at the Malaga yard and price it on its own content.
Used carbide inserts, sorted · Malaga A worn end mill and a worn carbide insert sit side by side in the same tray, and once they go into one bin they get weighed together at the rate set for the cheaper of the two. The carbide is the part that carries the value, and it is the part that disappears first in a mixed load.
We separate a workshop load into carbide, high-speed steel, stainless and the rest at Malaga before anything is priced, so each stream is valued against the current market price for that material. Where a batch genuinely needs its composition confirmed, we reach for the XRF; that check is run on material that warrants it, not on every load.
See how we price carbide inserts, end mills and cutters and high-speed steel tooling, and use our identification guide when a drawer of unmarked tooling turns up during a clean-out.
Whether a bin sits in the workshop is decided case by case, weighing the relationship, location, material and expected weight, and bins are generally set up for repeat customers. A tool room that fills a drum over a quarter can bring the load to the Malaga depot by appointment instead, and a walk-through ahead of a bigger clear-out is free but must be booked, since the team isn’t always at the yard.
Every quotation states its own expiry, usually 24 or 72 hours depending on the material and market conditions. Contamination is handled by weight: if a drum of tooling carries coolant-soaked rag, timber or non-complying steel, that assessed weight comes off the gross rather than the load being knocked back.
Used carbide inserts, sorted · Malaga Carbide, high-speed steel, stainless and unmarked tooling are separated before anything is weighed.
One tray of inserts and a whole tool room clear-out go the same way.
Whether it’s a quarterly drum or a shutdown clear-out, the process at Malaga doesn’t change.
Every load is weighed on our floor scales before it’s priced, so the number you’re paid on matches the number on the docket.
Carbide, high-speed steel and stainless are separated and assessed apart, so each is priced on its own content.
A batch record travels with every load, listing weight, grade and destination for your own reporting.
No cost for the bin, no cost for the freight. It travels back to us on your existing backload run, so we don’t run a truck out for it.
Furberg, Arvidsson and Molander, writing in the Journal of Cleaner Production 209 (2019), found that recycling metal cuts environmental impact by 22 to 100 percent depending on the category. Carbide recovered from a tool room stays in circulation as tungsten.
Weight, grade and destination are logged for every load off your workshop, documentation that sits behind your own reporting without you building the audit trail yourself. We fit around a workshop’s own access and paperwork requirements rather than asking the shop to change how it runs.
Send photos of what has built up in the tool room and we’ll give you an indicative view of what it holds, including how the free bin works.
Malaga, WA · Free bin and freight, on backload · Priced by material content
