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Slide 21 of 69
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The recycling of brass by melting is a basic essential of the industry. All of the feedstock for the manufacture of billets for extrusion of rod comes from scrap, including
- process scrap such as offcuts from within the mill
- process scrap such as turnings from machine shops
- scrap from brass components being recycled after a long and useful life
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Brass scrap and swarf command high prices because it is easily remelted back to its original state without loss of properties and when costing a brass product the high value of any swarf or scrap produced during manufacture should be taken into account. Likewise when calculating the lifetime cost of a product the ease with which a brass component is recycled at the end of its useful life needs to be taken into account.