Zinc Recycling Made Simple!
While zinc is not one of the first scrap metals that may commonly spring to mind, it is a great choice for industrial applications that require corrosion-resistant metals. Thanks to its protective layer when in contact with oxygen or moisture, zinc is often used to galvanise other metals such as iron or steel to enhance their corrosion-resistant properties. Also extremely useful for the conduction of electricity, zinc may be found in batteries and other conductive applications.
Here at KAS Metal Trading, we’re a friendly team of scrap metal recycling professionals with over three decades of experience recycling all kinds of metals, including zinc. We source and sell the highest-quality scrap zinc from across the UK, readying it for processing. Visit our Atherton scrap yard to begin weighing-in your scrap metal with KAS today!
Scrap Zinc Recycling Specialists
There are a number of benefits to scrap zinc recycling, with one of the biggest being the conservation of zinc resources and therefore, a reduction in the environmental impact and an increase in overall cost-effectiveness. Zinc is actually known to be one of the strongest non-ferrous metals, alongside aluminium, and is also a vital biological element in human growth and development.
Zinc can not only be used on its own, but also in combination with other ferrous and non-ferrous metals to create alloys such as brass or nickel for example. With such a wide range of uses, it’s no surprise that zinc is always in demand and can be abundantly recycled.
Scrap Zinc Prices
Like most ferrous and non-ferrous metals, scrap zinc prices change on a daily basis and is impacted by a number of environmental and economic factors day-to-day. As is common in the scrap metal recycling industry, the higher the demand for scrap zinc, the steeper the price. When planning on recycling your scrap zinc, it’s important to find a knowledgeable scrap metal merchant who understands the market comprehensively, ensuring you’ll always be receiving the best possible prices.
All our scrap zinc pricing is aligned with the London Metal Exchange (LME), a third-party governing body for the global metal market. As a result, we keep up to date with the variable prices and can confidently reflect this when buying or selling scrap zinc and other important scrap metals.
Scrap Zinc Recycling Grades
Scrap zinc is classified into two main grades, Old Zinc Scrap (post-consumer scrap) and New Zinc Scrap (industrial scrap) with further distinctions based on origin and purity, e.g. die-cast scrap, galvanized steel scrap, and zinc ash & dross.
Old Zinc Scrap
Old zinc scrap refers to zinc-containing materials leftover from demolition, renovation, or end-of-life metal products. For example, old zinc sheets, roofing materials, household products, and galvanized steel scrap. This is the lower grade out of the two, as it is often mixed with other scrap metals and will therefore require refining before the zinc recycling process can begin.
New Zinc Scrap
New Zinc Scrap consists of zinc leftover from manufacturing processes, e.g. from die-casting and galvanizing. This grade is considered to be higher than Old Zinc Scrap as it is cleaner and easier to recycle than old scrap metal.
Sell Your Scrap Zinc With Ease
We’ve spent years honing our weigh-in and metal analysis systems to ensure they are as efficient as possible. This means no extensive wait times to get paid for your scrap zinc, with various payment options available. That’s not to mention, if you bring your scrap zinc to us before 4pm, we can guarantee you a same-day payment! Get in touch using the form below if you’ve got scrap zinc to sell.