Scrap grade · bought nationwide
Scrap Wire & Cable Buyers
Used, cut, burnt and stripped-out wire priced on recovery value, by the load. We pay upfront and cover the freight and the loading ourselves.
- Paid before pickup
- No sorting required
- Freight and loading covered
- Any gauge, full or partial reels
Quote Scrap Wire & Cable
Send photos of the reel tags and receive a firm number, usually the same day. No obligation.
Funds change hands before a single reel leaves your property. There is no consignment and no waiting on a downstream resale.
You are never asked to sort, measure, strip or re-spool anything. Our team grades the material from photos and our own inspection.
Trucks, forklifts, reel handling and pallet wrapping are billed to us. That cost is already priced into the offer you receive.
Full reels, partial reels, boxed coils, loose cut-offs and several different constructions on one skid are all normal to us.
What we look for in scrap wire & cable
Not everything is resaleable, and we do not pretend otherwise. Demolition takeoff, wire pulled out of conduit in short pieces, burnt cable from a fire loss, cut-offs swept off a jobsite floor and reels of unidentifiable material all price on recovery value instead of resale value.
The honest way to think about this: resale-grade wire is worth multiples of its metal content because someone will install it. Scrap-grade wire is worth its metal content minus the cost of processing it. We buy both, we tell you which category yours falls into, and we do not quote a resale number and then downgrade it when the truck arrives.
For scrap-grade material, volume is what makes a pickup work. A few hundred pounds is better sold to a local yard than freighted anywhere. Several thousand pounds, or scrap-grade wire riding along with resaleable reels on the same load, is worth a call.
| Material | Cut, used, burnt, stripped, unidentifiable |
|---|---|
| Pricing basis | Recovery value, quoted honestly upfront |
| Volume | Works best in thousands of pounds |
| Mixed loads | Scrap grade rides along with resale grade |
| Insulation | Damaged or missing insulation accepted |
| No downgrade | The quoted number is the number paid |
Quote Scrap Wire & Cable
Reel tag photos get the fastest number.
Selling process
Send photos
The reel tags plus one wide shot of the pallet. If the material is still racked, a photo showing the aisle and the dock path helps us plan the loading.
Get a firm offer
Usually same-day. Cash, not contingent on resale.
We remove it
Our crew, our forklift, our freight. You do not lift anything or hire anybody.
You get paid first
Payment lands before anything leaves your property.
Other types we buy
Wire and cable, nothing else
THHN & THWN Wire
The single most common surplus building wire: 12 AWG through 750 MCM, full reels, partials and coils.
XHHW-2 Wire
Cross-linked feeder and service conductor, mostly large gauge on wooden reels.
MC & AC Cable
Metal-clad and armored cable in coils and cartons, including whips and prefab assemblies.
Romex & NM-B Cable
Residential nonmetallic sheathed cable in 250 ft and 1,000 ft coils by the pallet.
SER & SEU Cable
Service entrance and range cable, aluminum and copper, in coils and on reels.
Bare Copper Wire
Soft-drawn and tinned bare copper ground wire, solid and stranded, on reels and in coils.
Tray Cable & Control Cable
TC-ER, VFD and multiconductor control cable off industrial and process jobs.
Aluminum Cable
URD, quadruplex, triplex, MC-AP and large aluminum feeders from utility and service work.
Fire Alarm & Low Voltage Cable
FPLR and FPLP fire alarm cable, plus Cat6, coax and security cable in boxes and on spools.
Welding Cable & Portable Cord
SOOW, SJOOW, welding lead and portable power cord in coils and on reels.
Overstock & Cancelled Order Wire
Distributor overstock, obsolete stock and cancelled-order reels bought by the pallet or truckload.
By size and print line
Jump to your material
Conductor sizes
Manufacturers
- Southwire
- Encore Wire
- Cerrowire
- General Cable
- Service Wire
- Republic Wire
- AFC Cable Systems
- Okonite
- Prysmian
- Nexans
- Houston Wire & Cable
- Belden
- Windy City Wire
- Superior Essex
- Marmon Utility / Hendrix
- Polycab & import brands
States
Scrap Wire & Cable: common questions
Straight answers
Do you buy scrap wire & cable in any condition?
Yes. Damaged or missing insulation accepted We do not require sorting, stripping or re-spooling.
How do you decide what to offer?
Conductor size, metal, insulation type, voltage rating, footage, packaging and the legibility of the print line, weighed against what that specific combination is worth on the resale market right now.
Who handles loading and freight?
We do, at our cost. That includes the truck, the forklift, the reel handling and the pallet wrapping.
How fast can you pick up?
Usually within a week or two of agreeing on a price, and faster if you have a hard deadline like a lease expiration or a warehouse cleanout date.
Selling scrap wire & cable?
One pallet or a full warehouse. Call or text.
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Scrap Wire & Cable anywhere in the United States.