Ankit Goswami
What are different Nonferrous Scrap Terminology ?
Updated: Dec 2, 2019

When I first started in scrap business, I would find it difficult when veterans in this industry would use certain terminologies. I am still learning nuances of this vast industry every single day. I felt it would be useful if I could share some of the commonly and often used non ferrous scrap terminologies in this blog post. Feel free to add in comments if I missed any. I would love to hear your feedback below. Stay tuned in as I will capture the journey of scrap business in these blog posts with the sole purpose of bringing as much value as possible to the readers about the scrap industry and share knowledge from my daily experiences. If you have any questions, suggestions, something you would like me to cover, let me know in the comments. Thanks.
Aroma – New Nickel Scrap
Barley – No. 1 Copper Wire
Berry – No. 1 Copper Wire
Birch – No. 2 Copper Wire
Burly – Old Nickel Scrap
Candy – No. 1 Heavy Copper
Cliff – No. 2 Copper
Clove – No. 1 Copper Wire Nodules
Cobra – No. 2 Copper Wire Nodules
Cocoa – Copper Wire Nodules
Dandy – New Cupro Nickel Clips and Solids
Daunt – Cupro Nickel Solids
Delta – Soldered Cupro Nickel Solids
Decoy – Cupro Nickel Spinnings, Turnings, Borings
Depth – Miscellaneous Nickel–Copper and Nickel-Copper Iron
Dream – Light Copper
Drink – Refinery Brass
Drove – Copper-Bearing Scrap
Druid – Insulated Copper Wire Scrap
Ebony – Composition or Red Brass
Eland – High Grade-Low Lead Bronze Solids
Elder – Genuine Babbit-Lined Brass Bushings
Elias – High Lead Bronze Solids and Borings
Enerv – Red Brass Composition Turnings
Engel – Machinery or Hard Brass Solids
Erin – Machinery or Hard Brass Borings
Fence – Unlined Standard Red Car Boxes (Clean Journals)
Ferry – Lined Standard Red Car Boxes (Lined Journals)
Grape – Cocks and Faucets
Hitch – New R-Monel Clippings and Solids
Honey – Yellow Brass Scrap
House – New Mixed Monel Solids and Clippings
Ideal – Old Monel Sheet and Solids
Indian – K-Monel Solids
Ivory – Yellow Brass Castings
Junto – Soldered Monel Sheet and Solids
Label – New Brass Clippings
Lace – Brass Shell Cases Without Primers
Lady – Brass Shell Cases With Primers
Lake – Brass Small Arms and Rifle Shells, Clean Fired
Lamb – Brass Small Arms and Rifle Shells, Clean Muffled (Popped)
Lark – Yellow Brass Primer
Lemon – Monel Casting
Lemur – Monel Turnings
Maize – Mixed New Nickel Silver Clippings
Major – New Nickel Silver Clippings and Solids
Malar – New Segregated Nickel Silver Clippings
Malic – Old Nickel Silver
Melon – Brass Pipe
Naggy – Nickel Silver Castings
Niece – Nickel Silver Turnings
Night – Yellow Brass Rod Turnings
Noble – New Yellow Brass Rod Ends
Nomad – Yellow Brass Turnings
Ocean – Mixed Unsweated Auto Radiators
Pales – Admiralty Brass Condenser Tubes
Pallu – Aluminum Brass Condenser Tubes
Palms – Muntz Metal Tubes
Parch – Manganese Bronze Solids
Pekoe – 200 Series Stainless Steel Scrap Solids
Racks – Scrap Lead – Soft
Radio – Mixed Hard/Soft Scrap Lead
Rails – Lead Battery Plates
Rains – Scrap Drained/Dry Whole Intact Lead Batteries
Rakes – Battery Lugs
Ranch – Block Tin
Ranks – Pewter
Raves – High Tin Base Babbit
Relay – Lead Covered Copper Cable
Rents – Lead Dross
Rink – Scrap Wet Whole Intact Lead Batteries
Rono – Scrap Industrial Intact Lead Cells
Roper – Scrap Whole Intact Industrial Lead Batteries
Ropes – Wheel Weights
Roses – Mixed Common Babbit
Sabot – Stainless Steel Scrap
Saves – Old Zinc Die Cast Scrap
Scabs – New Zinc Die Cast Scrap
Scoot – Zinc Die Cast Automotive Grilles
Scope – New Plated Zinc Die Cast Scrap
Score – Old Scrap Zinc
Screen – New Zinc Clippings
Scribe – Crushed Clean Sorted Fragmentizers Die Cast Scrap, as Produced from Automobile Fragmentizers
Scroll – Unsorted Zinc Die Cast Scrap
Scrub – Hot Dip Galvanizers Slab Zinc Dross (Batch Process)
Scull – Zinc Die Cast Slabs or Pigs
Seal – Continuous Line Galvanizing Slab Zinc Top Dross
Seam – Continuous Line Galvanizing Slab Zinc Bottom Dross
Shelf – Prime Zinc Die Cast Dross
Tablet – Clean Aluminum Lithographic Sheets
Tabloid – New, Clean Aluminum Lithographic Sheets
Taboo – Mixed Low Copper Aluminum Clippings and Solids
Taint/Tabor – Clean Mixed Old Alloy Sheet Aluminum
Take – New Aluminum Can Stock
Talap – Old Can Stock
Talcred – Shredded Aluminum Used Beverage Can (UBC) Scrap
Taldack – Densified Aluminum Used Beverage Can (UBC) Scrap
Taldon – Baled Aluminum Used Beverage Can (UBC) Scrap
Taldork – Briquetted Aluminum Used Beverage Can (UBC) Scrap
Tale – Painted Siding
Talent – Coated Scrap
Talk – Aluminum Copper Radiators
Tall – E.C. Aluminum Nodules
Talon – New Pure Aluminum Wire and Cable
Tann – New Mixed Aluminum Wire and Cable
Tarry – Aluminum Pistons
Taste – Old Pure Aluminum Wire and Cable
Tassel – Old Mixed Aluminum Wire and Cable
Teens – Segregated Aluminum Borings and Turnings
Telic – Mixed Aluminum Borings and Turnings
Tense – Mixed Aluminum Casting
Tepid – Wrecked Airplane Sheet Aluminum
Thigh – Aluminum Grindings
Thirl – Aluminum Drosses, Spatters, Spillings, Skimmings and Sweepings
Throb – Sweated Aluminum
Tooth – Segregated New Aluminum Alloy Clippings and Solids
Tough – Mixed New Aluminum Alloy Clippings and Solids
Tread – Segregated New Aluminum Castings, Forgings and Extrusions
Trump – Aluminum Auto Castings
Twang – Insulated Aluminum Wire Scrap
Twist – Aluminum Airplane Castings
Twitch – Fragmentizer Aluminum (From Automobile Shredders)
Ultra – Stainless Steel Turnings
Vaunt – Edison Batteries
Wafer – Magnesium Clips
Walnut – Magnesium Scrap
Wine – Magnesium Engraver Plates
Wood – Magnesium Dockboards
World – Magnesium Turnings
Zorba – Recyclable Concentrates of Shredded Mixed Nonferrous Scrap Metal in Pieces – Derived from Fragmentizers for further Separation of Contained Materials.
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Source: ISRI’s Scrap Specifications Circular 1998, Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries Inc., Website: www.isri.org.
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