Industrial scrap metal recycling for Brisbane factories and workshops

Industrial scrap metal recycling that pays

Your workshop turns out scrap every day: offcuts, swarf, punchings and reject parts. Forge Recyclers buys industrial scrap metal from factories, fabricators and machine shops across Brisbane, and we collect it from your site. Send photos of your drums and stillages, and we reply with a quote.

Scrap we collect from factories and workshops

• Cutting and fabrication

  Sheet, plate, tube and bar offcuts, and punched skeletons.

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• Stainless work

  Offcuts, sheet trimmings and rejects from stainless fabrication.

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• Aluminium work

  Extrusion drops, sheet offcuts and cast parts.

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• Machining

  Turnings, swarf and chips in steel, aluminium and brass, kept by metal.

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• Maintenance and upgrades

  Old motors, pumps, fans and cable.

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• Clear-outs

  Retired machines, racking, shelving, jigs and worn tooling.

Why manufacturers sell their scrap metal to Forge Recyclers

• Each alloy on its own grade. Keep stainless, aluminium and brass apart, and we price each one on its grade.
• Production keeps running. Our collection service comes to your site, so nobody stops work for a scrap run.
• Mixed streams, one pick-up. Offcuts, swarf, motors and old machines go on the same trip.
• The price before the pick-up. The process starts with photos, and you see the quote before we book.

One-off clean-outs and regular pick-ups

Choose a one-off pick-up for a factory move, a plant upgrade or a yard full of old jigs and racking. Send photos of what's going, with rough sizes for anything big.

If offcuts and swarf fill a drum every week, ask about a regular pick-up. Tell us which metals you produce, roughly how much each month and where the drums sit. We'll talk through timing that fits your production schedule.

How we price factory and workshop scrap

We buy ferrous and non-ferrous scrap metal, and each stream is priced on its own grade. Non-ferrous metals such as copper, brass and aluminium earn the most. Stainless is an iron alloy, so it counts as ferrous, yet it earns far more than mild steel. Grade, weight and the market on the day set the rest. Send photos of each drum for today's price.

Scrap metal recycling from the factory floor

Production scrap recycles well, because it is usually clean and of a known alloy. We pass what we collect to metal recyclers and mills, which melt it down and make new sheet, bar and castings. Metal can make that trip again and again, which means less new mining and less energy. For a manufacturer, it turns a waste stream into income and keeps metal out of landfill. It also clears floor space for the work that pays.

Getting more for your offcuts and swarf

• Set up labelled drums so nobody mixes stainless with mild steel.
• Give each metal's swarf its own drum, and let the cutting fluid drain off.
• Keep painted, coated and plated parts apart from bare offcuts.
• Tell us the alloy if you know it, such as 316 stainless or 6061 aluminium.

For a business with scrap at several sites, see commercial scrap metal collection.