US Scrap Wire and Cables Recycle

The US scrap metal recycling industry which is driven by a

recovering US economy, a growing Asian economy, and the growing
demand

for

products

manufactured

with

recycled

materials,

continues to grow with a value of billions of dollars. Despite the

volatile economic activity across the global markets, the outlook for
the metal recycling sector remains positive as the demand for scrap
metal grows among both domestic and global consumers.

In America, there are also growing concerns over e-waste. In

response, electronic manufacturers, regulators and recyclers are
looking for more productive ways of separating copper and
aluminum from insulation to create new metals by recovering scrap
wires/cables.

Wires/Cables Recovery Systems in the United States

Stage1: recover up to 98% of insulated and bare wires

Using a sorting system to recognise fine metal particles with a
highly-sensitive electro-magnetic sensor that can also identify
insulating polymer coatings made of PVC, PP, PE or rubber with an
additional high resolution near infrared sensor.
Stage2: recover up to 95% of insulated wires
The signals from both sensors are analyzed with the help of the
newly

developed

precision

results.

processing
This

technology

means

the

which

insulated

delivers

high-

copper/aluminum

wires/cables can be safely identified and separated with up to 90%

of purity.

And to achieve the final separation of metal (copper and aluminum)

from the insulation layers, there are several steps included in the
process:
1.Material separation: pre-sorting of copper and aluminum from
insulated layers and other particles, as well as different grades
metals. A number of processors in US has now established systems
to get copper or aluminum from their materials. These methods
may include dry systems, such as electrostatic separators, and wet
separation systems that use shaker tables and cyclones.
2. Shredding: mandated by efficiency reasons in larger plants, but
still optional in smaller plants
3. Granulation: usually accomplished in multiple stages
4. Screening: an optional stage that is used before or/and after final
to enhance recovery
4. Density separation: where the actual separation and recovery of
the copper or aluminum from the insulation occurs, using simple
aspiration (an air wash of the insulation away from the metallics)

and/or fluidized bed separation

5.

Tailing

process:

various

procedures,

dedicated

to

either

enhancing metals recovery or to conditioning the tailings for

recovery or final disposition.

Metal Recycling Rates in the United States

#1 Bare Bright Wire
#1 Copper Tubing/Flashing
Brass (Plumbing, Pipe)
Insulated Copper Wire (Cat 5/6)
Insulated Cable
Aluminum/Copper Coil (Clean)
Car Batteries
Sheet Aluminum (Windows/Pans)
Steel

$2.80/lb.
$2.60/lb.
$1.60 /lb.
$0.90 /lb.
$1.85 /lb.
$1.20 /lb.
$0.26-$0.29 /lb.
$0.45 /lb.
$0.065-0.12/lb.

Wires/Cables Recycling Equipment Spotlights in US

Automated Recycling Products, Inc. (APPI) in America offers three
models of wire stripper: the DRM, the smallest; the COMC and the

REC. All these three models will strip the plastic insulation from wire
diameter of 1/8 to 1 1/8. And Cumberland offers granulators for
recycling, injection molding, extrusion, blow molding and all other
polymer industry processes.

Wire and cable recycling involves the extraction of reclaimable

copper and aluminum scrap, so that the resultant clean metal can
be resold and reprocessed. The equipment used in that extraction
process must be especially efficient to improve the purity of
resulting material. To that effect, we, Amisy metal recycling
machines, have been working hard to upgrade our equipment to
better serve the growing market demand including the US market.

We are now supplying small-sized wire stripping machine, which is

used for removing the insulation layer from various kinds of scrap
wires with the diameter of 1mm-42mm; different model for
different wire diameter: AMS-918A for diameter of 1mm-25mm,
AMS-918F for diameter of 1mm-30mm, AMS-918KA for diameter of
1mm-35mm, AMS-918KOB for diameter of 1mm-42mm. And largesized cable stripping machine, which is a heavy-duty stripping
machine for high-volume stripping process, AMS-918B for diameter
of 2mm-85mm, AMS-918B-1 for diameter of 10mm-165mm, so this
machine

supplied

by

us

is

mainly

employed

by

large-scale

wire/cable stripping business worldwide; also its multi-functions of

processing single-core and double-core flat wires at one time
contributes a lot to its popularity.

Mini AMS400 copper wire granulator for household and small-scale

recycling

business;

AMS400

scrap

copper

wire

granulator, a

integrated one, for recovering automotive wires, telephone wires

and cables; AMS600 copper/aluminum granulator for wires and
cables with diameter that is not more than 20mm; AMS800 copper
granulator

with

99.99%

purity rate

for

large-scale

recycling

business. They are the other featured wires/cables recycling

equipments from us.
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our

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