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Scrap titanium price for offcuts, turnings and worn-out parts
Rather than post a scrap titanium price, we quote each lot, because grade, form and sorting differ from one bin to the next. Send photos and a rough weight; ship it from anywhere in the US and we pay the shipping, or have us pick it up in California, Arizona, Utah or Nevada.
Unalloyed titanium or Ti-6Al-4V: a scale will not tell you
Titanium scrap is either unalloyed titanium or one of its alloys. One alloy shows up in the official record: USGS's 2004 titanium flow study followed the scrap market through prices reported for unprocessed turnings of Ti-6Al-4V.
Weight will not separate the two. NIST's table lists pure titanium at 4.540 g/cm3, and a Lawrence Livermore study assumed 4.43 for Ti-6Al-4V, a gap of about 2.4 percent (0.11 divided by 4.54). Either one weighs a little under 60 percent as much as steel at about 7.8 (MIT course table, 1999), which is why a full bin of titanium feels light for its size.
Paperwork does the sorting instead. USGS says new titanium scrap is usually segregated by material specification and sent back to furnaces, where it is "matched and melted into a product with the desired chemistry". If a job came with a material cert or a drawing that names the grade, keep that job's scrap to that grade and tell us what the cert says.
Sources: USGS Circular 1196-Y (2010); NIST X-ray mass attenuation tables, Table 1; LLNL, OSTI 1491650 (2017); MIT 3.11 metals property table (1999).
Aerospace uses most of the metal and leaves a lot behind
USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 says most US titanium metal went into aerospace in 2025, and the rest into armor, chemical processing, marine hardware, medical implants, power generation and other uses. USGS Professional Paper 1802 (2017) credits titanium's strength-to-weight ratio and corrosion resistance for its place in aerospace, and notes its growing use in hip and knee joints, bone screws and plates, and dental implants.
Aircraft parts use up a lot of metal per part. USGS's flow study put the aerospace buy-to-fly ratio, the material bought for each unit of finished part, at about 5:1 in 2004, so roughly four of every five pounds bought never flew. The same study found that 25,000 of the 45,000 metric tons of titanium in US consumption that year came back as new scrap, more than half.
That is why so much titanium scrap starts life as machining and trimming leftovers rather than as worn-out parts.
Sources: USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026: Titanium; USGS Professional Paper 1802-T (2017); USGS Circular 1196-Y (2010).
Solids in one bin, turnings in another
USGS sorts titanium scrap into scrap metal, castings, wrought products, and turnings or chips, also called swarf, from machining. For selling, that comes down to two kinds of lot: solids (plate drops, bar ends, sheet, castings, rejected parts) and turnings (the curls and chips that come off a lathe or mill).
Keep the two apart. Solids can be checked piece by piece, while a drum of turnings is only as clean as the messiest job that went into it. Give each alloy its own container, drain the cutting fluid out of turnings before you pack them, and keep steel chips, broken inserts and floor sweepings out. Nickel alloy chips off the same machines go in their own drum; see nickel alloys.
Save the worn tooling as well, in a separate bucket. A 2019 study says diffusion is the main gradual wear of cemented carbide when turning titanium at low and medium cutting speeds, so the carbide inserts on titanium jobs wear out and belong in your scrap too. Carbide is the main thing we buy.
Sources: USGS Circular 1196-Y (2010); Materials (Basel) 2019: carbide wear in titanium turning.
No sponge made at home, and 32,000 tons of scrap shipped in
The United States made no titanium sponge metal in 2025, according to USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026. The last domestic sponge plant closed in 2024, and a second one in Henderson, Nevada, with about 12,600 tons a year of capacity, has stood idle from 2020 on. Henderson sits inside our Nevada pickup area.
USGS estimates US imports of titanium scrap at 32,000 tons in 2025, and reports that a Virginia company, with federal funding support, began commercial production of titanium powder from scrap metal in late 2024. Titanium is also on the federal Final 2025 List of Critical Minerals.
USGS withheld its 2025 figures on titanium scrap consumption, and no public number covers your particular bin, so we do not list titanium scrap prices. We quote each lot from its photos, grade, form and weight.
Sources: USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026: Titanium; Federal Register, Final 2025 List of Critical Minerals.
Titanium we take, and the way to sell it to us
- Plate and bar drops, saw cuts and bar ends
- Sheet, strip and stamping skeletons
- Turnings and chips, drained and kept by alloy
- Castings and forgings
- Rejected or obsolete machined parts
- Tube and pipe offcuts
Open the quote form, choose exotic metals, and enter the grade if you know it, a rough weight and some photos. You can also email the same details to help@carbidebuyersusa.com or call (877) 899-5778. Send it from anywhere in the US and we pay the shipping (how to pack a heavy box), or we pick up in any city in California, Arizona, Utah or Nevada. We pay in cash where state law allows; the guide to scrap metal laws covers each state.
Common questions
Where are your titanium scrap prices per pound?
We do not publish them. Titanium scrap value turns on the lot: a pound of sorted solids with a known grade and a pound of mixed turnings are different material, so we quote yours from photos, grade, form and weight instead.
What if I cannot tell unalloyed titanium from Ti-6Al-4V?
Tell us that. Bag the pieces on their own, mark the bag unknown, and send photos with any part numbers or drawings you have. Keep them out of any bin whose grade you do know.
Should titanium turnings be dry before I ship them?
Drain them well and let them sit until the fluid stops running, then pack them in a sealed, lined container so the box carries metal rather than coolant. Tell us what fluid the job used.
Can you pick up titanium from a shop in Utah or Nevada?
Yes. Our pickups cover every city in all four of our states: California, Arizona, Utah and Nevada. From any other state, ship it to us and we pay the shipping.
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Send a few photos and a rough weight. From any state, you ship it and we cover the shipping; in California, Arizona, Utah and Nevada, we drive out to you.