Scrap Metal Recycling Grades

Recycle Your Ferrous Metal Materials

Ferrous metal is magnetic and derives from iron or contains iron along with other metals such as steel. Materials in the ferrous metal category can be further organized into subcategories. According to specifications as outlined by the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries in 2009, the following is a sample of ferrous scrap metal grades:

• No. 1 heavy melting steel
• No. 1 heavy melting steel, 3 feet x 18 inches
• No. 1 heavy melting steel, 5 feet x 18 inches
• No. 2 heavy melting steel
• No. 2 heavy melting steel
• No. 2 heavy melting steel, 3 feet x 18 inches
• No. 2 heavy melting steel, 5 feet x 18 inches
• No. 1 busheling
• New black sheet clippings
• No. 1 bundles
• No. 2 bundles
• Shredded scrap
• Shredded clippings
• Steel can bundles
• No. 3 bundles
• Incinerator bundles
• Terne plate bundles
• Bundled No. 1 steel
• Bundled No. 2 steel
• Machine shop turnings
• Machine shop turnings and iron borings
• Shoveling turnings
• Shoveling turnings and iron borings
• Iron borings
• Auto slabs
• Briquetted iron borings
• Briquetted steel turnings
• Mill scale

Electric Furnace Casting and Foundry

• Billet, bloom and forge crops
• Bar crops and plate scrap
• Plate and structural steel, 5 feet and under
• Cast steel
• Punchings and plate scrap
• Electric furnace bundles
• Cut structural and plate scrap, 3 feet and under
• Cut structural and plate scrap, 2 feet and under
• Cut structural and plate scrap, 1 foot and under
• Silicon busheling
• Silicon clippings
• Chargeable ingots and ingot butts
• Foundry steel, 2 feet and under
• Foundry steel, 1 foot and under
• Springs and crankshafts
• Alloy-free turnings
• Alloy-free short shoveling steel turnings
• Alloy-free machine shop turnings
• Hard steel cut 30 inches and under
• Chargeable slab crops
• Silicon bundles
• Heavy turnings

Cast Iron

• Cupola cast
• Charging box cast
• Heavy breakable cast
• Hammer block or bases
• Burnt iron
• Mixed cast
• Stove plate, clean cast iron stove
• Clean auto cast
• Unstripped motor blocks
• Drop broken machinery cast
• Clean auto cast, broken, not degreased
• Clean auto cast, degreased
• Malleable
• Broken ingot molds and stools
• Unbroken ingot molds and stools

Railroad Scrap

• Axles, steel
• Spikes, track bolts and nuts, and lock washers, may include rail anchors
• Tie plates
• Rail joints, angle and/or splice bars
• Bolsters and/or truck sides, frames: uncut
• Cast steel, No. 2
• Cast steel, No. 1
• Cast iron, No. 1
• Cast iron, No. 2
• Cast iron, No. 3
• Cast iron, No. 4
• Cast iron brake shoes
• Couplers and/or knuckles
• Frogs and/or switches, uncut
• Railbound manganese frogs and switch points with manganese inserts that have not been cut apart
• Malleable
• Melting steel, railroad No. 1
• Rail, steel No. 1
• Rail, steel No. 2 cropped rail ends
• Rail, steel No. 3
• Sheet scrap, No. 1
• Sheet scrap, No. 2
• Steel, tool
• Steel, manganese
• Steel, spring
• Structural, wrought iron and/or steel uncut
• Tires
• Turnings, No. 1
• Turnings, drillings and/or borings, No. 2
• Wheels, No. 1
• Wheels, No. 3
• Destroyed steel cars
• Destroyed steel car sides and box car roofs

Special Boring

• No. 1 chemical borings
• Briquetted cast iron borings, hot process
• Briquetted cast iron borings, cold process
• Malleable borings
• No. 2 chemical borings

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