Trade your recycled metals. We handle the rest.

Inspection, payment, freight, customs and documentation are ours to run and ours to answer for. Wherever the buyer is.

A rail wagon loaded with mixed scrap metal, seen from directly above alongside the track

Four things go wrong in this trade. We take all four off your desk.

What changes is who carries the risk when it happens.

  1. 01 What usually happens

    You ship, then you chase the money.

    Funds are secured before the container moves.

    Payment is placed using escrow, and released against milestones written into the contract.

  2. 02 What usually happens

    The grade is disputed on arrival.

    Grade is fixed at your yard, before loading.

    Independent inspection and assay, agreed by both parties before the container is sealed. The umpire procedure for any dispute is in the contract from day one.

  3. 03 What usually happens

    One trade needs five different providers.

    One contract. One number to call.

    Inspection, freight, customs, payment and documentation are ours to coordinate and ours to answer for.

  4. 04 What usually happens

    You can only sell to the people you already know.

    We bring the buyers you would never be introduced to.

    Qualified buyer relationships beyond your own network, without you opening an office, a bank account or a customs file abroad.

How a trade runs

Five steps, in order, from the first call through to discharge.

  1. 01

    We qualify both sides.

    Company registration, beneficial ownership, sanctions screening and trade licences on every counterparty, before anything is quoted.

  2. 02

    We quote.

    A firm offer against the day’s benchmark, adjusted for grade, packing, location and freight. The offer holds for the period stated on the quote.

  3. 03

    We verify the material.

    Independent inspection and assay at the seller’s yard before loading, with the result agreed by both parties. Method matched to the material.

  4. 04

    Funds are secured.

    Payment is placed in escrow and released against the milestones in the contract.

  5. 05

    We move it.

    Booking, export and import documentation, customs clearance and tracking through to discharge.

Buying or selling, the work is the same

Between an agreed price and a settled trade sits the same work, whichever way the material is moving. We do that work, and we answer for it.

Smelters, manufacturers and refiners

Verified before it ships.
Independent inspection and assay at source, agreed by both parties before the container is sealed.
Payment placed in escrow.
Funds are placed in escrow and released against the milestones written into the contract, so payment follows the material.
Papers that arrive with the material.
Where it came from, who handled it, how it was processed, and the certificates that go with it.
Landed, not just bought.
Booking, customs clearance and documentation run through to your gate, from suppliers you would not reach on your own.

What you get in writing

The first two things a counterparty asks for: a price that holds, and paperwork that stands up to scrutiny.

A firm price, quickly.
We quote against the day’s benchmark and hold the offer firm for a stated window. No auction, no waiting on a chain of brokers.
Documentation that travels with the shipment.
Origin, chain of custody, processing route and the certificates that travel with the shipment, compiled as the trade runs rather than reconstructed afterwards.

Talk to the desk

Send a few lines on what you're buying or selling, and roughly how much. A trader on the desk reads it.

Email

trade@intellicycle.net

The desk replies within one business day.