Nonferrous metals we buy
Get paid on the day's COMEX or LME price for graded copper, brass, aluminium and stainless. Tell us what you have and roughly how much — we'll quote it.
Tell us what you have
Grade, approximate weight, where it is, and a photo if you have one.
We quote off the index
A percentage of the COMEX or LME price on the day we take delivery, less any agreed deduction.
Weigh, grade, pay
You see the index, the percentage and the deduction on every ticket. Paid by check or transfer.
Copper
Bare bright
No. 1 copper wire: bare, uncoated, unalloyed, 16 gauge and heavier. No burnt wire.
No. 1 copper
No. 1 copper wire and No. 1 heavy copper: clean, unalloyed, uncoated clippings, bus bar and tubing.
No. 2 copper
No. 2 copper wire and miscellaneous unalloyed copper — may be soldered, painted or oxidised.
Insulated copper wire
Insulated copper wire scrap, sorted by recovery.
Brass
Yellow brass
Yellow brass scrap: fittings, valves, castings. Free of iron attachments.
Brass rod turnings
Yellow brass rod turnings — clean and dry, from machining.
Aluminium
New production extrusions
One alloy, typically 6063. Butt ends allowed; free of any foreign contamination.
Aluminium wheels
Clean single-piece, unplated auto or truck wheels — no inserts, steel, wheel weights, valve stems or tyres.
Used beverage cans
Baled or densified aluminium UBC, dry and free of foreign material.
Old sheet aluminium
Clean mixed old alloy sheet aluminium.
Stainless
304 stainless
Clean 304 solids and clips, segregated from 316.
316 stainless
Clean 316 solids and clips — segregated and verified.
How we price. Every grade is quoted as a percentage of the published COMEX or LME price on the day material is weighed, less a stated deduction for moisture or attachments. You see exactly how your number was built, on every ticket.
Built for industrial sellers. We buy from plants, fabricators and contractors across Houston — truckload and container quantities, every load weighed, graded and documented.