The Secret to Easier Metal Recycling: Metal Identification

What kind of metal do I have?

This is a question you might ask yourself if you have a bunch of metal you want to scrap. For example, your work place has a bunch of scrap metal that looks a little like steel. How do you figure out what it is? How much is it worth?

To the layman, these are tough questions to answer. To be honest, it can even be hard to those in the metal recycling business. Even if you know that all that scrap is aluminum, what series it? There are thousands of different types of aluminum and each variation dictates how much it’s worth. The metal recycling business can be a very tricky one.

This scenario is the same for all metal types. However, we live in exciting times! New technology that can read the metal type in about 5 seconds has been invented. That knowledge is powerful because once you know what you have, you can find out exactly how much it is worth.

The metal identification technology is an analyzing gun that uses x-rays to ID the metal alloy type. It is completely self contained and safe to use by a trained professional.

Not to toot our own horn but E-Cycle Environmental has this new technology and we offer a service that provides an analysis of the metals you have at your location. After identifying the metal, we provide a detailed report of its chemical composition.

Welcome to the brave new world where you can make phone calls to a scrap yard and tell them exactly what you have! Check out the links below to see it in action!

E-Cycle metal analysis gun demo

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