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Carbide selling guides
These carbide selling guides lay out each way to sell used carbide, from a tool maker's buyback program to a scrap yard to a buyer like us, so you can compare before you ship. When you want a number of your own, send the quote form with a weight and a few photos.
Where to sell carbide
Every option near you and by mail, and how we buy: ship from any state or pickup in CA, AZ and NV
Manufacturer buyback programs
What the tool makers' recycling programs take, who can use them and how they pay
Kennametal carbide recycling
How Kennametal's program works, who it suits, and the other ways to sell
Sandvik carbide recycling
Sandvik Coromant's buyback, who can use it, and the other ways to sell
Scrap yard or carbide buyer?
What a general scrap yard does with carbide, and when a specialist makes sense
How buyers price carbide
Tungsten content, the market, hard and soft scrap, and what a buyer deducts
Offer comparison calculator
Put two or three offers side by side and see what each pays after shipping and deductions
Choosing a buyer
The questions to ask before you ship a pound, and the warning signs
Getting paid
Cash, checks and transfers, the ID rules for scrap sales, and the records to keep
Machine shops
Setting up a carbide bin, what to keep separate, and how shops sell it
Estate and shop cleanouts
Clearing out a machinist's tools: finding the carbide and selling it
Three groups, one seller's question each
The cards above sit in three groups, and each group answers one question a seller asks.
- Who buys carbide. The places that take it: tool makers' buyback programs (a manufacturer's own scheme for taking back used carbide, on terms it publishes), general scrap yards and specialist carbide buyers. Where to sell carbide puts the whole field on one page.
- How offers work. What a buyer weighs up when it prices a lot, what a deduction (anything a buyer takes off before paying) does to your payout, how to choose a buyer, and how payment and ID rules work. The offer calculator sets up to three offers side by side.
- Who sells carbide. Two guides for the people who most often hold it: machine shops with a steady flow of worn tools, and families clearing out a machinist's tools.
Where a guide gives a number, a rule or a program's terms, that section lists the sources it was written from, and each guide shows the date it was last updated. Where a program or a state law comes with conditions, the guide keeps them in.
Questions people ask
Are these guides written by a carbide buyer?
Yes. Carbide Buyers USA buys carbide, and our own offer sits on each guide beside the other options. Other buyers and programs are described from their own published pages or from neutral sources.
Which guide should I read first?
With carbide in hand and no offers yet, start at where to sell carbide. Holding two or three offers already, go to the offer calculator.
Have carbide to sell?
Tell us what form it is in and about how much it weighs, and add a few photos. Ship it from any state and we pay the shipping, or we pick up anywhere in California, Arizona and Nevada.