Carbide scrap pickup in Arizona

About 192,091 people worked at 6,018 manufacturing establishments in Arizona in 2025, by Arizona Office of Economic Opportunity estimates. The three biggest sectors by employment were aerospace products and parts, semiconductors and other electronic components, and medical equipment and supplies.

Machining aerospace and medical parts wears out cutting tools: solid carbide end mills and drills and boxes of indexable inserts, and we buy both.

The chips have value too. USGS reports that most US titanium metal went into aerospace in 2025, and a 2004 USGS circular puts nickel-base superalloys such as Inconel 718 at about 40 to 50 percent of an aircraft engine's weight. We buy titanium and nickel alloy turnings and solids as well.

Sources: Arizona Commerce Authority: Qualified Facility annual report, CY2025 (April 30, 2026); USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026: titanium; USGS Circular 1196-A-M: superalloy recycling.

Arizona's scrap metal dealer law (ARS 44-1641 onward) does not name carbide, tungsten or titanium in its definitions, and most of its rules turn on the dollar amount and the kind of seller rather than the metal. At each sale the buyer records:

• the date, time and place, a photograph, description and weight of the scrap, and the dollar amount;
• your name, physical description, address, date of birth and signature, with a photocopy of a current driver license, nonoperating identification license, or tribal or US military photo ID;
• a photo or video of you, your right index fingerprint, and the plate of the delivering vehicle.

Sellers must be at least 16 and get a receipt on site for every sale. The buyer keeps the records for two years, the first at the business premises, and reports each purchase electronically to the state within 24 hours, unless it came from an industrial account or another dealer.

Sources: Arizona Revised Statutes 44-1641 (definitions); Arizona Revised Statutes 44-1642 (records, payment, seller age); Arizona Revised Statutes 44-1644 (report and seven-day hold).

1. Send the lot. Fill in the quote form with the kind of carbide, a rough weight and photos taken in good light, or email help@carbidebuyerusa.com, or call (877) 838-9920.
2. Get the quote. We price each lot from its photos, its form and its weight, because a pail of coated inserts and a pail of brazed saw tips are worth different amounts.
3. Give us the address. A Tempe job shop, a ranch shed outside Safford or a garage in Lake Havasu City: we come to it. The pickup page shows the three-state coverage map.
4. Have your ID ready. We pay cash where Arizona law allows it; at or above the dollar line in the payment rules, a check or money order is mailed to the address on your ID.

Keep inserts, round tools and high-speed steel apart; the sorting guide shows how. You can also ship your scrap from anywhere in Arizona, and we pay the shipping.