How to Standardise Scrap Trading Records Across Your Business
Paper tickets, whiteboards and a folder of spreadsheets will run a scrap yard for years. The question is how much they’re quietly costing the business in the meantime. The scrap inventory management software walkthrough on scrap.trade covers which records are actually worth keeping and why. It’s fair to say that no software fixes a process […]
How to Enter the Scrap Industry Without Buying Trucks or Machinery
You don’t need a yard, a fleet of trucks or a warehouse full of metal to start in this trade, but you do need to understand how it works, and nobody is born knowing that. Getting the structure of a deal right matters more than most beginners expect, and the tips for successful scrap deals […]
How to Build a Network of Scrap Yards, Collectors and Recyclers
Picking a scrap business model and picking the people to work with are two versions of the same problem, and both come down to trusting the right things for the right reasons. Emerging streams are worth knowing about too, and the solar panel scrap and recycling walkthrough is a good example of where the trade […]
How to Approach Scrap Collectors and Small Scrap Yards as a Trader
There’s a real logic to how the scrap business works, and once it clicks, a lot of the initial uncertainty falls away. If you’re just getting to grips with how this industry works, the scrap trading glossary is a handy reference to keep close by. Another point worth making early: you don’t have to choose […]
Does Selling More Scrap Always Mean Getting a Better Price?
There’s a big difference between selling a bit of scrap from a garage cleanout and supplying commercial quantities to a real buyer. If you’re new to this side of things, selling scrap in bulk is worth understanding properly, and we’ll cover the essentials here. When you first look into bulk scrap, a lot of the […]
Understanding Scrap: Why It Looks Different to Different People
Most of us have walked past a pile of scrap at some point and thought nothing of it. But have you ever stopped to wonder what it actually is? If you’ve ever wondered about this, how different people see scrap is actually a really interesting place to start. How a Manufacturer Sees It And then […]