Mill Brokerage

Our mill brokerage division has established the relationships and processes needed to help you sell your recycled materials.

We are a scrap metal broker with physical yards and truck chassis. When your scrap is clean enough to skip yard processing, we shop it across mills and place it where the return and the freight make sense. When it needs sorting or shearing first, we still handle it. Brokerage is one lane of a wider scrap management program, not a handoff that leaves you chasing mill paperwork yourself.

This page is for industrial and demolition scrap. Not walk-in retail.

A scrap metal brokerage program starts with your material. We identify the grade, shop it across mills that buy that grade, price it on return plus shipping, pay you, and take a cut. You do not have to build mill accounts, chase buy programs, or guess which consumer wants your cut plate this month. What it is not: a generic “we know someone at a mill” promise, and not a replacement for every load you generate. Mixed, dirty, or post-consumer material still needs a yard. Mill brokerage is for material that is already mill-spec clean, or close enough that processing would only add cost without adding value.

For manufacturers and fabricators running ongoing programs, brokerage often sits alongside industrial and commercial scrap recycling. For tear-downs and liquidations, it sits next to demo and liquidation logistics. Same team. Different path for the material depending on how clean it is.

Two fits show up again and again.

Mid-sized demolition companies. Large national contractors often run brokerage in-house. Mid-sized outfits usually do not. When a job is going to throw five hundred tons of beams that need to be sheared to mill spec, sending that steel through a yard that will just turn around and sell it to a mill leaves money and time on the table. Mill-bound from the start is the cleaner path.

Smaller scrap yards that want competitive buy and fast payment. We are well financed. We can buy at a competitive rate and pay quickly, which matters when your cash is tied up in inventory waiting on a mill settlement cycle you do not control. If you are a plant manager, fabricator, or commercial account generating steady scrap, you may still use brokerage on the clean fractions while the rest of your stream stays on a managed program with a scrap metal dealer relationship for processing contracts. We do both.

The mill relationship is the product.

Mills run monthly buy programs they have to fill. When they hand those orders to sellers they do not know, it is a gamble. They take money off the table for the risk. They also watch unknown sellers closely, which means more rejections and more loads that bounce back after freight is already spent.

We already have history with those mills. Your volume rides with our aggregate volume. That is how a mid-sized demo contractor or a smaller yard gets mill access without spending years proving out every grade and every shipment. You stop having to be the unknown party on the scale ticket. The same logic applies when material is going to a yard instead of a mill. Sending heavy plate and structural to a shredding-focused yard is not their core buy, so they will not be aggressive on it. We send the correct material to the correct home. We have had scenarios where rerouting alone roughly doubled a customer’s scrap return because the grade was never in front of the right consumer.

Mill-direct material is scrap so clean we do not have to process it or sort it. It can go straight to a mill.

Busheling is new production material, not post-consumer scrap. It comes straight from manufacturers. It has not been in circulation as a finished product. Mills want small pieces that fit a furnace easily, and busheling is built for that.

Cut grades are heavier gauge steel: plate, structural, and HMS that fall into a cut grade category because the material is sheared (or torched) down to mill spec. It is not shredded or baled. That physical prep is what makes it mill-ready.

Volume and preparation both move price. Substantial volumes warrant a more aggressive price. Material that arrives ready to consume is worth more because there is no processing left to do. Mixed or contaminated loads are a different conversation. We still buy ferrous and non-ferrous across grades, including exotics when they show up, but those usually need a yard path first.

We are a broker and a yard. The old “third-party broker only” framing understates what we actually run.

We own a full-service yard near Dayton (Xenia, Ohio), bought in 2023, and we have built out trucking and processing infrastructure across Ohio (Cincinnati, Dayton, and Columbus), Kentucky (including Northern Kentucky), and Tennessee.  Our own fleet places containers and pulls loads. Partner yards in the region already have accounts set up, so material goes where the day’s price is best. You get the benefit of more than one home without managing five relationships yourself.

On the mill side, we shop a grade nationally when that is what the return requires. An aluminum grade might have roughly five interested mills. We price on best return and shipping logic, then move it. Out of region, we work through partner yards the same way: place the containers, run the logistics, pay you, settle with the yard, take a cut. Scales we use are certified through the state of Ohio. We are members of the Recycled Materials Association (ReMA). We stay in compliance with environmental laws and regulations. That is the compliance language we stand behind. Nothing more specific.

Settlement math is meant to be readable: the value of the material less the agreed freight rate. That is what you get paid. Industry-standard grade names, not private in-house labels. Photo documentation when a major deduction is on the table. If a grade is wrong, we fight it with proof of what the material actually was.

For demolition work, settlement usually lands on one of three schedules, at your preference:

• Weekly settlement payment
• Monthly payment with transactional reports every week
• Weekly transactional reports with one final payment

Managed accounts get transaction reports on whatever cadence you want. Weekly is common for higher activity. Manufacturers running one to four loads a month often settle monthly. Reporting is part of the program, not an add-on. Loads, weights, and price paid stay visible so your team is not reconstructing a job from memory. We do not invent rates on this page. Markets move. Volume and prep change the number. Call or text and we price the material in front of us.

If you would rather not leave a number in a form that turns into a long song and dance, text us or ask for a call from a rep today. We do not sell your information or hand it to third-party data buyers.

A useful first pass is a short scrap assessment. Tell us:

• What kind of material you are generating
• Ballpark volume (roll-off once a month, once a week, once a day)
• How you currently shuttle material to and from containers
• Whether you want a preset pickup schedule or call-in service
• Facility location

That is enough for us to come back with a real offer. If the fit is mill brokerage, we say so. If the cleaner path is a yard program or a full scrap management setup, we say that too.

Call or text: 513-488-6142

Hours: Mon–Fri 8am–5pm

Office: 3275 Erie Ave, Suite B, Cincinnati, OH 45208

Ask about mill brokerage for clean industrial or demolition scrap, or about a managed program if your stream is mixed. We will tell you which lane fits before we move a single load.