Non-Ferrous Metal Recycling
Gerald and Son purchase a wide range of non-ferrous goods. Since non-ferrous materials don’t include iron, using a magnet is the simplest method to determine whether a product is made of aluminum, copper, zinc, lead, or nickel. Iron is most likely present if the magnet remains attached. It’s probably not ferrous if it doesn’t stick.
All metals, including non-ferrous metals, can be recycled repeatedly without losing any of their characteristics. By delivering your non-ferrous materials to Tall Ingots, you can support metal recycling and have a good environmental impact. The list of typical non-ferrous items we now buy is shown below.
Copper
Bright & Shiny
ISRI Term: Millberry
The simple version: The clean copper
wire that is inside the wiring of your house, phones and electrical chords.
Bare
ISRI Term: Candy
The simple version: When your plumber leaves an off-cut of copper
tube behind that has no solder joins or paint.
Burnt
ISRI Term:
Birch Cliff
The simple version: When your plumber leaves behind copper tube that “has” solder joints or paint.
It can also be clean copper wire from a household appliance that has been burnt.
Insulated Cable
Insulated cable
ISRI Term:
Druid
The simple version:
This is the wiring that is in your house, phones
and electrical chords. It is the copper wire with the insulation still on.
Electric Motors
Electric Motors
ISRI Term:
Elmo
The simple version:
The simple version:
Electric motors from any appliance or machine. Excessive attachments will reduce
the price paid for the motor.
Brass
Brass
ISRI-Term ISRI Term:
Honey Grape
The simple version:
This can be taps from your sink, a broken symbol from your drumkit or old plumbing joins from your piping. The easiest way to tell if it’s brass is by grinding a piece and if its yellow then it will be brass.
Brass Turnings
IISRI-Term ISRI Term:
Night
The simple version:
The shavings that come from any type of brass that is machined or turned.
Gunmetal
ISRI-Term ISRI Term:
Ebony
The simple version:
This is brass that has a higher copper content so it will have a deeper colour. Usually valves, pumps and machinery parts.
Car Radiators
ISRI-Term ISRI Term:
Ocean
The simple version:
We will purchase the radiators with the steel attached or removed.
Aluminum
Aluminium Domestic
ISRI-Term ISRI Term:
Taint/Tabor
The simple version:
Old aluminium cladding from a caravan or house that has no steel attached.
Cans
ISRI-Term ISRI Term:
Taldon
The simple version:
Any aluminium drink vessel can be recycled. Just remember that you will need approximately 62 cans to make a kilo.
Extrusion
ISRI-Term ISRI Term:
Tata / Toto
The simple version:
This is the aluminium window framing without the glass or steel attachments. We can still buy the aluminium if it has steel attached however it will be at a reduced rate. It does not matter if the aluminium has been anodised or painted.
Wire
ISRI-Term ISRI Term:
Talon
The simple version:
This is clean aluminium wire that is free of any attachments, steel or paint.
Wheels
IISRI-Term ISRI Term:
Troma
The simple version:
These are the aluminium wheels from your car. We purchase the rims with or without the rims attached however there is a waste levy applied to the disposal of the rubber tyre.
Cast
ISRI-Term ISRI Term:
Tense
The simple version:
Cast aluminium could be cylinders from engines.
Zinc
ISRI-Term ISRI Term:
Saves
The simple version:
Die cast toys, money boxes, car components and sacrificial anodes can be purchased and recycled.
Aluminium Cu Radiators
ISRI-Term ISRI Term:
Talk
The simple version:
Usually the cores from air-conditioning units. We purchase the radiators with or without steel attached however there will be a reduced rate if the steel is still attached.
Lead
Lead
ISRI-Term ISRI Term:
Radio
The simple version:
Sheet lead from roofing, lead wheel weights, old sinkers, lead ingots and even the old lead roof nails have a value.
Used lead acid batteries
ISRI-Term ISRI Term:
Zinc
The simple version:
Old car and motorcycle batteries can be recycled.
Nickel
Stainless Steel
ISRI-Term ISRI Term:
Sabot
The simple version:
Old kitchen sinks, kitchen utencils, piping, plate, nuts & bolts. Many items related to food preparation are made from stainless steel. The easiest way to tell if it has a higher value is to use a magnet. If the magnet doesn’t stick then it will have a higher value than if the item were magnetic.
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- 9 Pine Avenue, North End, Port Elizabeth 6056, South Africa
- +27718348100
- sales@geraldandson.com
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Gerald & Son General Trading
offers a wide range of steel products for all your needs.