ANC Introduces Carbide Scrap Recycling Program May 25, 2005

HOUSTON - American National Carbide (ANC), long-time manufacturer of tungsten carbide products for metalworking, mining and drilling, and wood processing, introduces a carbide scrap recycling program designed to provide an environment-friendly and cost-effective method of disposing hard and soft tungsten carbide scrap.

The recycling program has two aspects: (1) carbide manufacturers can have carbide scrap processed and returned to them as a usable raw material, and (2) carbide users can "redeem" their scrap for credit or cash. "This new program gives our customers a way of minimizing the effect of the current volatility in the tungsten market," says D. Greg Stroud, President. "The net result is that they get raw material or finished products for a lower price, because they are obtaining value from their scrap."

ANC is one of the few carbide manufacturers in the world that also has a comprehensive zinc reclamation process allowing it to convert tungsten carbide scrap into usable raw material. ANC buys a wide variety of "hard scrap," including carbide inserts, drilling compacts and buttons, carbide end mills and drills, wear parts, saw tips, coal mining tips, road construction tips, nozzles, grit, blanks, ball mill and attritor mill media, and other solid carbide scrap. It also purchases "soft scrap," such as grinding sludge (wet or dry), turnings, and grindings, presintered and unsintered carbide parts, grade powder, and powder scrap.

To learn more about ANC's carbide scrap recycling program, click here.