Talkin Scrap with Scrap University: Barley and Clove

“Talkin’ Scrap” with Nick Snyder in partnership with Scrap University and Brad W. Rudover brings its next episode. We cover “barley” bright and shinny copper, along with MCM and “Clove” our #1 copper chop. Over here United Metals Recycling we take the extra steps to provide an unmatched service for ALL of our customers

Transcription

Today I want to talk to everyone about barley or “bright and shiny” copper. It’s the highest tier of material that we buy from our customers. It has to be wire and it has to be bright and shiny. You can’t have a silver coating, a nickel coating. It can’t have anything of that nature on it. You can see it is like this size right here, which this was a MCM great of insulated copper that someone probably stripped to upgrade. You can also strip the lower gauge stuff too to this right here. This right here is the MCM grade. As you can see on this cut end. If you strip the rest of this off, it is bright and shiny. You can upgrade it pretty easily. However, we do by all our material off percentages, as most scrapyards do, and we happen to granulated this into a number one copper chop. This is roughly 90 to 92 copper. Here is a bowl of our copper chop. It’s number one. This is a little finer graded. Than this MCM that you see here. I didn’t have any available of the thicker material, but it’s a number one

chop, it’s all our number one wire we’re running through a granulator.