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Metal shredding, baling and shearing services

Shredder

Sims scrap metal sites in the UK have the cabability to shred, bale, shear and use gas powered cutting services to recycle your scrap metal to the highest standards.

View how scrap cars, metal waste and non hazardous white goods such as washing machines are shredded into ferrous metal fragments for the steel industry. Metal waste is loaded by grabs before being flattened, hammered into small fragments and the separated into metals and other materials.

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Bales of scrap metal

Bales of scrap metal

Sims has shears, balers and a number of gas powered cutting services around the UK.

  • Balers produce high quality low residual chemistry bale for critical quality steel specifications
  • Shears produce clean cut grades of ferrous scrap for steel and foundry markets. 

Email or call 0800 008 7223 to find out more. Aternatively use the recycling service finder to help you identify your nearest scrap metal yard with baling, shredding or cutting services facilities.