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ELO

A private bidding desk for industrial sellers.

Your scrap is worth more than your recycler pays.

Most plants sell to one local recycler who quietly underpays. Our AI and proprietary outreach software put your material in front of our entire network of bulk buyers at once and make them compete, recovering the $30,000 to $300,000 a year most sellers leave on the table.

$435B

Global scrap metal market

$184B

U.S. recycled materials industry

720M t

Ferrous scrap recycled annually

30000+

Recycling companies worldwide

01 / The Premium

You are not underpaid because your scrap is cheap. You are underpaid because no one is competing for it.

Most industrial material is sold to one local recycler, or listed on a marketplace where the price sinks to the floor. We do the opposite. Our AI builds a priced profile of your material, and our proprietary outreach software puts it in front of every qualified bulk buyer in our network at once. Then it runs a live, competitive bid. Buyers compete, and the price climbs.

One material, two ways to sell it

One buyer

Sets your price

Buyers competing

The price climbs

01

The whole network, at once

Our AI and outreach software put your material in front of every qualified buyer in one move, not one phone call at a time.

02

Competition on every load

Buyers bid against each other. The highest offer wins, not the most convenient one.

03

Your real price in days

The bid runs in days, not months. You stop guessing what your material is worth.

02 / The Benchmark

A few cents a pound is six figures a year.

Your scrap is priced by one buyer who has no reason to pay more. When our outreach software puts the same material in front of our entire buyer network and makes them compete, the winning bid is almost always higher. For most sellers, that gap is $30,000 to $300,000 a year.

You see every bid, the exact price, and the math behind it. The money was always there. You simply could not see the market.

The simplest way to see it

Selling scrap to one recycler is selling your car to the first dealer who makes an offer. We run the auction. We put your material in front of the whole market at once and let them bid it up.

One aluminum stream. Four competing bids. 80,000 lb / month
Your recycler current $0.62 / lb
Buyer A $0.68 / lb
Buyer C faster pickup $0.70 / lb
Buyer B best bid $0.72 / lb

Same material. $0.10 a pound between the buyer you have and the buyer who wants it most.

What ten cents is worth
+$0.10 / lb × 80,000 lb / mo = +$8,000 / mo

+$96,000

Recovered every year, on one stream. Across a plant's streams, the gap runs $30,000 to $300,000 a year.

Before

One recycler sets your price, because you never see the rest of the market.

After

Buyers compete for your material. You set the terms, with the numbers in hand.

03 / The Problem

You are underpaid for two reasons, and neither is your fault.

No one is competing

  • One recycler, chosen years ago, is your entire market.
  • No other buyer is ever asked to beat their price.
  • You cannot see what the rest of the market would pay.
  • Convenience quietly costs more than it saves.

Your scrap is never marketed

  • It goes out as "copper" or "aluminum," not a priced, documented profile.
  • Buyers who would pay a premium never hear about it.
  • Grade, freight, and payment terms are left on the table.
  • The spread stays with the recycler, not with you.

Most recyclers count on both. The single buyer, and the scrap that never gets marketed, are exactly how the discount survives. We fix both. We market your material properly, and we make buyers compete for it.

The same scrap, two buyers

What your one buyer pays

What buyers pay when they compete

+10% to 30%

For most sellers, that gap is $30,000 to $300,000 a year, on the exact same scrap.

Scrap prices vary by 10 to 30% between buyers in the same market. The U.S. scrap industry is so fragmented that no single buyer holds more than 5% of it, and competitive bidding consistently lifts prices by 5 to 20%.

Sources: industry scrap pricing data; IBISWorld; Aberdeen Group reverse-auction research.

04 / The ELO Model

Your scrap, in front of the entire market, in days.

The value is not one buyer introduction. Our AI profiles and prices your material, our outreach software runs it past every qualified buyer at once, and a competitive bid plays out in days. Then it repeats every month.

  1. 01

    Your material, profiled by AI

    Our AI builds a precise, priced profile: type, grade, weight, location, packaging, contamination, and what the live market pays.

  2. 02

    Your profile reaches the whole network

    Our proprietary outreach software puts a blind profile in front of every qualified buyer at once. Your identity stays hidden until a buyer signs an NDA.

  3. 03

    Buyers compete, in days

    Qualified buyers bid against each other on grade, metal value, freight, processing cost, and payment terms. The bid runs in days, not months.

  4. 04

    You take the top bid, in writing

    You see every offer and the math behind it. Each load is documented: grade, weight, price formula, pickup, payment terms, and fee.

  5. 05

    Reporting and benchmarking

    Monthly price benchmarks, bid history, pickup tracking, and payment performance.

  6. 06

    It repeats every month

    The same process runs on your next load, and across your other sites and materials.

05 / Material Streams

Whatever your plant produces, we put it to the bid.

From copper to factory offcuts. Each card shows what a year of that stream is typically worth.

Copper

Old cable, manufacturing offcuts, transformer windings, busbars, motors.

$100k to $10M+ annually

Aluminum

Extrusion scrap, frames, machining chips, aerospace and auto offcuts.

$100k to $10M+ annually

Ferrous

Demolition steel, machinery, beams, structural and factory offcuts.

$100k to $20M+ annually

Stainless and Nickel Alloy

Refinery and chemical equipment, aerospace alloys, high nickel grades.

$250k to $10M+ annually

Factory Production Scrap

Recurring offcuts, trimmings, rejects, stamping and cable scrap.

$250k to $50M+ annually

Motors, Transformers, Equipment

Electric motors, transformers, switchgear, pumps, plant machinery.

$100k to $5M+ per project

Specialist streams. Certified partners only.

  • E-waste and circuit boards
  • Lithium-ion and black mass
  • Lead-acid batteries

06 / Why Not a Marketplace

A marketplace lists your material. We sell it for more.

A marketplace helps people find each other. It does not handle the eight things that decide how much you actually get paid.

01

Grade

Marketplace

You post "copper scrap." Buyers cannot price that.

ELO

We write a precise material profile, so serious buyers bid real numbers.

02

Buyer trust

Marketplace

Buyers wade through fake, tiny, and contaminated listings.

ELO

We filter the junk. Buyers see only real, documented material.

03

Confidentiality

Marketplace

Your facility, volume, and current buyer all go public.

ELO

A blind profile. Your identity stays private until an NDA is signed.

04

Logistics

Marketplace

A match, with no bins, no routes, no reliable pickup.

ELO

We weigh the whole deal: price, pickup, bins, and payment speed.

05

Pricing formula

Marketplace

Quotes you cannot compare. Index minus what, after which deductions?

ELO

We turn every bid into one comparable number, after freight and deductions.

06

Your current recycler

Marketplace

Useless once you already have a buyer.

ELO

We show you exactly how much your current recycler is underpaying you.

07

Recurring streams

Marketplace

Built for one-off piles.

ELO

We keep the monthly stream competitive, and rebid it on a schedule.

08

Getting cut out

Marketplace

Reveal the buyer and you can be bypassed.

ELO

We hide your identity until a buyer signs, and we are paid even if they try to deal direct later.

And the fee.

A marketplace takes 5 to 13 percent of a public price. We charge a low fee on the higher price we get you.

07 / For Sellers

For Sellers

The AI Scrap Audit.

Free, and quiet. Tell us what you produce and what you are paid now. Our AI prices it, our outreach software runs it past our entire buyer network, and buyers compete. You see the real top bid, and the money you were leaving behind.

  • An AI-priced profile of exactly what your material is worth
  • Your scrap put in front of our entire buyer network at once
  • A live, competitive bid that runs in days
  • The $30,000 to $300,000 a year you were leaving behind

For Buyers

Qualified, recurring material.

Vetted and documented streams, by material and region, before they reach the open market. Access after you sign.

08 / Standards

Nothing moves without your say.

Every safeguard here is built around you: your identity, your ownership, and the buyers you already work with.

Proof of ownership
Verified before any material moves. No anonymous lots.
Certified electronics partners
R2 and e-Stewards recyclers for data-bearing and electronic assets.
Hazmat-certified partners
Licensed logistics and recyclers for battery and regulated streams.
Confidentiality first
A signed NDA before we share who you are or where you are.
Transaction confirmations
Issued on every load, every month.
We never touch the material
We arrange the sale on your behalf. We do not take title to your scrap or handle it ourselves.

09 / Our Team

We have sat on both sides of the trade.

ELO is run by metals and recycling operators who have priced, graded, shipped, and closed industrial material for decades. We know what your material should clear at, and which buyers will pay the most for it.

Behind every account is a private network of qualified buyers, and a team that does the work: profiling the material, running the bids, handling documentation and pickup, and reporting back every month.

Active across the largest U.S. scrap states

Texas Ohio Pennsylvania California Illinois

We focus on the states that produce the most industrial scrap, and place material with qualified buyers nationwide.

$150M+

In material moved by our desk

100+

Years of combined desk experience

180+

Qualified buyers in our network

40+

Recurring seller accounts

AI Scrap Audit

Find out what your scrap is worth. Our AI proves it.

Tell us about your material. Our AI prices it, our outreach software puts it to our buyer network, and buyers compete. Most sellers find $30,000 to $300,000 a year they were leaving behind. Free, and no obligation.

How the AI audit works

  1. 01

    Our AI profiles your material and prices it against the live market.

  2. 02

    Our outreach software puts a blind profile in front of every qualified buyer at once.

  3. 03

    Buyers compete. The bid runs in days, not months.

  4. 04

    You see the top offer, the math, and exactly what you were leaving behind.