Just as everything has a price, similarly there is a price for selling and buying scrap, which is called scrap rate. it the percentage of materials or products that end up as waste during the manufacturing process
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General: Electronic scrap is a very inhomogeneous recycling material. In this case, purchase prices are based on the metal contents contained, whereby the respective gold, silver, palladium and copper contents vary from component to component, from PCB to PCB and from chip to chip, which means that we specify sorting criteria for e-scrap price groups in order to calculate fair purchase values. All batteries must be removed. Our purchase prices are automatically adjusted several times a day to the current metal quotations.. For larger quantities of identical PCBs or components from industry, we calculate individual purchase prices based on sample submissions after we have determined the individual metal contents in our laboratory.
Class 1-A PCBs are old PCBs with galvanically gold-plated contacts / connector strips, very many small and densely placed chips, mostly from old mainframe computers / servers. The circuit boards must not be stripped, attachments such as metal sheets, frames and heat sinks are removed.
Class 1-B PCBs are PCBs from computers / industrial equipment which have visible gold-plating and numerous chips / transistors and plug-in contacts containing precious metals. In the case of motherboards / plug-in cards (sound + graphics cards), only old circuit boards manufactured before 2000. Metal sheets and heat sinks are removed, as are batteries.
Class 1-C PCBs are colourful motherboards without attachments from computers (yellow, blue, orange, purple, also green PC motherboards, graphics cards / sound cards manufactured from 2020 onwards / starting from Pentium4 / AMD Athlon PC generation). They also include Class 1-A and 1-B PCBs from which ferrous and aluminium attachments such as metal sheets and heat sinks have not been removed, or from which components containing precious metals such as chips have been removed.
Class 2-A PCBs are PCBs from industrial equipment which, however, unlike class 1 PCBs, have hardly any visible gold contacts. The circuit boards are equipped with small chips containing precious metals, transistors and quartz crystals, but must not contain any components (heat sinks, transformers, capacitors) larger than a thumb. Also included are class 1-C PCBs with attachments.
Class 2-B PCBs are PCBs from industrial equipment which, however, unlike class 1 PCBs, have hardly any visible gold contacts. The circuit boards are equipped with only a few chips containing precious metals, transistors and quartz crystals, and may occasionally contain component attachments such as heat sinks, transformers or relays.
Class 3 PCBs are boards with large components such as capacitors, transformers, heat sinks and only a few components / chips or contacts containing precious metals. They originate mostly from monitors, power supply controls or consumer electronics. They also include class 1-And 2 PCBs if they contain very large / heavy attachments.
Rear walls are the connector strip board of a mainframe computer / server. The price depends on the gold content or whether the contact pins are completely gold-plated or only the tip, on the coating thickness, the weight or thickness of the base plate, and on whether all attachments such as metal frames have been removed.
Computer plugs or PC plugs are connectors with light gold-plated contacts for monitors, printers, internal computer cabling, which have been cut off from the cable or ribbon cable close behind the plug housing.
Info: Special connectors with considerably higher-quality gold plating, such as those used in industry, correspond to Class I PCBs up to and including rear walls in terms of their purchase value.
Gold plugs are connectors with heavily gold-plated contacts / pins, usually with light plastic housings, and mostly from military, aircraft equipment or very old electrical equipment. The gold content in these plugs is significantly higher than in normal PC plugs.
Old group A mobile phonesHandys are standard mobile phones with dial keypad and small display. The circuit boards contain precious metals and other recyclable material. As some of the housings are difficult to open, we also buy them unassembled. Only the battery has to be removed. The cover must be removed to facilitate inspection.
Old Group B Smartphones are mobile phones with touch-sensitive screens and often equipped with digital and video cameras. The components and PCBs contain precious metals that can be recycled. Since the housings are sometimes difficult to open, we also buy smartphones unassembled. Only the battery has to be removed. The cover must be removed to facilitate inspection.
Old laptops / notebooks contain precious metals in the installed components and PCBs that can be recycled. As some of the housings are difficult to open, we also buy them unassembled. Only the battery has to be removed. If possible, the screen should also be removed. There are differences in the purchase price.
Plastic CPU processors with cooling plate from computers / notebooks / industrial computers with attachments like fans or heat sinks / cooling plate. The colour is mostly black, green or brown.
Old optical data storage media are CDs, DVDs and Blu-Ray discs that are no longer used, scratched or no longer readable. The carrier discs are mainly made of polycarbonate, a valuable raw material for the plastics and chemical industry. For this reason, optical data carriers can be recycled and sent for reuse. Only data carriers without sleeves are accepted.
Components / contacts: Other contact materials containing precious metals, contact rivets / punched strips or components such as reed relays, quartz crystals, transistors, resistors. The composition of the precious metals in these materials is too variable to allow the calculation of flat-rate purchase price groups. In this case, the remuneration or the value determination is carried out according to the metal content evaluation.
Non-ferrous metals / special metals: Non-ferrous metals / special metals from the recycling of electronic scrap or as production residues from electronics manufacturers can be, for example, copper, brass, aluminium, tin, lead, tantalum, molybdenum, indium etc.. In this case, daily purchase prices may apply that are strongly dependent on the quantity and purity of the metal type.
Info: As a precious metal recycler and trader, non-ferrous metals are not the main focus of our ESG activities. In the case of non-ferrous metals, from the perspective of transport costs, the best solution may be to sell them to a local scrap dealer.
Predicting production outcomes in manufacturing relies on accurate data that calculates the variables that actually affect things like reliability, performance, and longevity of the product, like the soundness of bonds. There are countless tests to examine every conceivably measurable aspect of production.
Contact angle measurements are sensitive to extremely minute surface energy changes and, therefore, can detect, with ruthless accuracy, how prepared a surface is for adhesion. Every place in a production process where the surface has an opportunity to change in a way that affects adhesion outcomes is called a Critical Control Point (CCP).
When contact angle measurements are taken at each critical control point, manufacturers can be certain they know whether the surfaces of their raw materials are within the tolerances for excellent adhesion, thus guaranteeing the maximum output at a much higher quality level.
Rework for those hundreds of failed parts was taking resources away from producing high-quality parts the first time around. Every cable that is reworked equals one cable that is not being produced. The cycle that is run for the reworked cable is the same cycle run for a new cable. So, each rework represents a double loss in raw materials and doubles the amount of scrap.
The manufacturer conducted rigorous root cause analysis by examining their cleaning and handling process. They enlisted the help of a laboratory, but the data they received was vague and consisted mostly of a verbal report that nothing unusual was found. This dead end left the manufacturer on its own again.
Subsequent Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) efforts led them to begin an initiative to reduce the amount of manual handling each part would go through in order to reduce the risk of contamination. They even went through an exercise to closely monitor temperature and humidity in their facility to see if there was a meaningful impact, but nothing was successful.
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