Top-Quality Copper Wire Scrap (99.99%)

This is Grade A bare bright copper wire scrap: bare, uncoated, unalloyed purple copper recovered from second-hand cable and overhead conductor. The wire arrives stranded — bundles of roughly 10 cm diameter twisted from 3 mm single wires — and remelts as essentially pure copper without the slag and fume that lower grades generate. We supply it at a consistent 99.99% Cu.

For a smelter or a rod mill the number that decides the melt is not the headline purity but what else is in the lot. Tin from solder, lacquer from enamelled wire and zinc from brass fittings all move the analysis, and one contaminated bale can put an entire heat out of specification. Clean second-hand conductor that has been stripped rather than burned avoids all three. That is why the grade carries a premium, and why it is worth specifying how the material was recovered rather than only how pure it is said to be.

Recovered copper wire scrap is feedstock rather than a finished product. It is charged into:

• Continuous cast copper rod and wire drawing lines
• Brass and bronze alloy melting
• Refined copper production and anode casting
• Electrical conductor manufacture
• Foundry and ingot-making feedstock

Copper scrap grading rests on two things: how clean the metal is, and how repeatable the analysis is. Bare bright is the top grade on both counts — no coating, no alloying element, no solder, no visible oxidation. The 99.99% figure describes copper content; the absence of coating and alloy is what makes that figure hold lot after lot, and it is what separates Grade A bright scrap from the lower grades a mixed load drifts toward.

When you request a quotation, the details that actually move the price are whether your feeding equipment takes whole stranded bundles or wants the wire chopped, whether light surface oxidation is acceptable to your melt, the packing form your unloading equipment handles, and whether you want the composition certified by an agency you nominate. All four are settled before the container is sealed, not after.

Wire scrap is supplied as whole stranded bundles, strapped or baled to suit the way you unload and charge the furnace. Packing form drives the loaded weight per container, so it is fixed at quotation stage and stated on the packing list rather than assumed.

Every lot ships with a certificate of analysis stating the full chemical composition, produced under an ISO 9001:2015 quality management system. That is more than the headline purity figure: it is the residual elements that decide whether two lots at the same stated purity behave the same way in your process.

You can nominate an independent inspection agency — SGS and BV are the two we handle most often — for pre-shipment sampling, weight verification and container sealing. The report is issued to you rather than to us, and you are equally welcome to send your own representative.

Standard export documentation covers the commercial invoice, packing list, certificate of origin and bill of lading, alongside the chemical composition report. If your market requires an additional declaration, tell us at quotation stage rather than after the container is sealed. See the terms of service for how inspection and claims are handled.