A dismantler or yard rarely produces one material. Converters accumulate in one corner, hybrid packs in another, copper and aluminium somewhere else. Sold separately, each pile is small: three buyers, three sets of terms, three minimum quantities, and three separate export procedures for material that came off the same vehicles.
What follows is what that changes in practice, and where it does not help.
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Consolidating shipment does not mean consolidating valuation. Converters are assayed as converters, battery packs as battery packs, non-ferrous by grade. Nothing is blended across streams and nothing is settled at an average.
This is the question worth asking any buyer who offers to take several materials at once: is each stream priced on its own measured content, and does the settlement document show them separately? If the answer is one figure for everything, consolidation is costing the seller rather than saving them anything.
Split across three buyers, each lot is a third of the size and may fall under the threshold that gets serious terms. Combined, the same material clears it.
Collection, freight and consolidation happen once, and the cost is carried by the whole load rather than by each part of it.
Export paperwork, customs and any dangerous goods declaration are prepared once for the consignment, not repeated per material and per destination.
Spent converters are not dangerous goods. Nickel-metal hydride packs are not regulated by sea under 100 kg gross per cargo transport unit, and are UN3496 Class 9 above it. Lithium-ion is different again, which is why it is not accepted. Getting these wrong is what delays consignments at the port.
The same sampling discipline applies to every stream, so results from one shipment can be compared with the next rather than read against three different methods.
If you produce one material only, and in quantities a local buyer will take at a fair price, consolidation adds nothing. The same is true of small mixed volumes where handling and freight outweigh the difference between a per-piece price and a measured one.
Consolidating is worth it when several streams accumulate steadily, when at least one of them is above the category average and deserves measurement, or when export paperwork is the reason material has been sitting in the yard rather than being sold.
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Recohub buys catalytic converters, nickel-metal hydride hybrid batteries, lead-acid batteries, electronic waste and non-ferrous metals, including copper, aluminium, brass, insulated wire, electric motors and alloy mixes, under one arrangement, in one shipment with one set of export documentation. Each stream is assayed and settled on its own measured content; nothing is blended or settled at an average. Lithium-ion batteries are not accepted.
Recohub processes both streams for metal recovery: catalytic converters for platinum, palladium and rhodium, and nickel-metal hydride hybrid packs for nickel, cobalt, manganese, aluminium and rare earth elements. Both are sampled and assayed before settlement, and exported material is also inspected by independent assay houses including Metralis, Alex Stewart International, Alfred H Knight and RC Inspection. Recohub handles NiMH chemistry only; lithium-ion batteries are not accepted.
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