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Aluminium Scrap Buyers in UAE

Convert your commercial and industrial aluminium waste into premium cash flow with 800 Scrap, the leading certified non-ferrous metal recycling specialist in the United Arab Emirates. We purchase architectural extrusions, composite panels (ACP), alloy wheels, industrial turnings, and obsolete structural scrap from demolition sites, fabricators, and manufacturing plants. Our state-of-the-art facilities offer municipality-certified digital weighing, live LME market index tracking, and instant, secure cash or electronic bank settlements. Simplify your waste management with our heavy loader fleet offering same-day skip dispatch across all Emirates.
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About Aluminium Recycling

In the modern industrial landscape of the United Arab Emirates, Aluminium Scrap Recycling represents a critical pillar of sustainable manufacturing and resource conservation. Aluminium is highly valued globally not only for its lightweight structure, high electrical conductivity, and extreme corrosion resistance, but also for its unique metallurgical properties. Unlike many other materials, aluminium possesses infinite recyclability—it can be melted down and repurposed indefinitely without any degradation in its physical properties, tensile strength, or chemical performance.

From an environmental and thermodynamic standpoint, recycling aluminium is incredibly efficient. Secondary smelting (melting scrap aluminium) requires up to 95% less energy than extracting and refining primary aluminium from raw bauxite ore. This massive energy saving translates directly into a dramatic reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and saves scarce landfill volume. By partnering with 800 Scrap, industrial fabricators, MEP contractors, and demolition companies across the UAE can monetize their scrap reserves, achieve compliance with municipal environmental codes, and contribute actively to the UAE Green Agenda and Net Zero 2050 targets.

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Types of Aluminium Scrap We Buy

Aluminium Sheets

Clean, unalloyed aluminium sheets sourced from industrial fabrication offcuts, cladding panels, and vehicle body sheets. Free from paint, iron attachments, or grease, representing an exceptionally high-purity metal category that command premium daily LME pricing.

Aluminium Plates

Heavy-duty aluminium plate scrap derived from structural aircraft components, marine ship building, and machinery foundations. Characterized by thick gauge construction and high alloy purity, typically 5000 or 6000 series, making them ideal for high-yield secondary smelting.

Aluminium Extrusions

High-grade structural extrusions (6063 alloy) salvaged from manufacturing plant waste and architectural sections. These are thoroughly inspected to ensure they are free from zinc, iron bolts, rubber linings, and silicone sealant, optimizing their recycling value.

Aluminium Profiles

Architectural profiles including T-bars, angles, and hollow tubes used extensively in framing and structures. Sorted into clean raw metal, anodized, or painted grades, which are granulated or sheared before being introduced into local melting furnaces.

Aluminium Doors

Obsolete or damaged aluminium doors collected from residential villas, commercial high-rises, and industrial warehouse offices. Dismantled completely by our teams to separate non-metallic elements like glass, rubber gaskets, lock cylinders, and steel hinges.

Aluminium Windows

Salvaged window units from large-scale demolition and renovation projects across the UAE. Our mechanical processing lines crush and sort these frames, removing glass contaminants and structural sealants to isolate pure, recyclable aluminium alloys.

Aluminium Frames

Bulk architectural framing systems recovered from retail shop fronts, office partitions, and curtain wall structures. Representing high-tonnage scrap, these frames are bundled and sheared for rapid processing at our central sorting yards.

Aluminium Partitions

Office fit-out partition systems and glass-framing channels. Sourced from high-rise office demolitions, these lightweight profiles are compressed into high-density bales to ensure efficient shipping and eco-friendly circular smelting.

Aluminium Curtain Wall Scrap

Massive structural curtain wall framing systems dismantled from high-rise facades during modernization programs. These high-volume, structural elements represent prime architectural alloys with excellent metallurgical consistency and high salvage value.

Aluminium Composite Panels (ACP)

Aluminium Composite Panels (ACP) widely used in building facades. Consisting of two thin sheets of aluminium bonded to a non-aluminium core, these panels are processed using advanced mechanical delamination to cleanly separate the valuable aluminium layers.

Aluminium Wheels

Automotive alloy wheels sourced from vehicle dismantling yards, garages, and scrap dealers. Free from tires, lead balance weights, and steel valves, these command premium scrap rates due to their high metallurgical grade.

Aluminium Rims

Premium passenger car and commercial truck aluminium wheel rims. Our spectrometers verify the alloy composition, ensuring high-grade silicon-aluminium alloys are isolated for casting into new automotive feedstock.

Aluminium Radiators

Clean, copper-free aluminium radiators sourced from automotive cooling systems, generators, and HVAC condensors. These represent a high-yield alloy group that is highly sought after by secondary refineries for casting.

Aluminium Heat Sinks

Extruded aluminium heat dissipation blocks from heavy computer servers, electrical substations, and power inverters. Features extremely high chemical purity, commanding top-tier valuation due to minimal alloy contamination.

Aluminium Castings

Cast aluminium scrap consisting of vehicle engine blocks, transmission cases, and pump housings. While containing slight oil trace elements, these castings are processed through specialized rotary furnaces to eliminate impurities.

Aluminium Turnings

Machining shavings, chips, and turnings from precision engineering shops and aluminium fabrication companies. We utilize specialized briquetting presses to compact these high-surface-area chips, preventing oxidation during melting.

Aluminium Ingots

Surplus, damaged, or off-spec industrial aluminium ingots from casting plants and foundries. We provide immediate certified weighing and instant cash or electronic payments for bulk industrial ingot surplus.

Aluminium Foil

Clean industrial foil scrap, capacitor foils, and bulk food packaging offcuts. Free from heavy paper linings, organic waste, and plastic laminates, sorted separately to prevent melt loss.

Aluminium Scaffolding

Obsolete, bent, or retired aluminium scaffolding pipes, platforms, and structural couplers from civil construction sites. These robust alloys are sheared and baled for direct secondary smelting.

Aluminium Ladders

Damaged or obsolete industrial and domestic ladders. Dismantled at our yards to remove non-skid rubber feet and steel locking braces, ensuring a clean, unalloyed melt feedstock.

Aluminium Kitchen Equipment

Commercial-grade kitchen cookware, prep tables, and catering trays sourced from hotel renovations and restaurant closures. Free from heavy iron handles, copper bases, or grease build-ups.

Aluminium AC Coils

Mixed aluminium fin-tube heat exchangers and air conditioning coils. Processed through mechanical shredding and air-gravity separators to isolate aluminium fins from other internal metals.

Aluminium Wire (Sub-section)

Electrical conductor (EC) grade aluminium wire scrap, free from steel reinforcements, hair wire, and insulation. Covered strictly as a subsection of our main aluminium pillar rather than a standalone page, ensuring comprehensive, centralized authority.

Aluminium Cable (Sub-section)

Insulated and overhead aluminium power cables, including steel-reinforced ACSR lines. Handled as a vital sub-category within this pillar page, utilizing industrial stripping and granulation to harvest high-purity aluminium conductors.

Specialized Subsection: Aluminium Wire & Cable Recycling

As part of our commitment to maintaining a comprehensive, single-source aluminium pillar page, we cover Aluminium Wire and Aluminium Cable as specialized sub-categories on this page rather than hosting them on separate, thin pages. In modern electrical transmission and distribution networks, aluminium is widely utilized due to its lightweight profile and excellent conductivity-to-weight ratio.

We routinely process overhead transmission lines, insulated power cables, and steel-reinforced ACSR (Aluminium Conductor Steel Reinforced) cables. These complex wiring assemblies are directed through our advanced mechanical stripping and wire granulation lines. The outer rubber or PVC insulation is cleanly granulated, and magnetic separator drums isolate the internal steel reinforcement wires from the high-purity EC-grade (Electrical Conductor) aluminium strands. This ensures 99.9% metal recovery and guarantees top-tier rebates for MEP and electrical utility contractors.

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Aluminium Scrap Classifications

Aluminium CategoryPrimary Alloy & SourceKey Recycling Characteristics
Architectural Extrusions6063 Alloy • Window & Door Frames, Curtain WallsVery high purity, low iron content, highly sought after by local extruder foundries.
Automotive AlloysA356 Alloy • Wheels, Rims, Engine CastingsHigh silicon and manganese content, excellent mechanical properties when re-melted.
Electrical Conductors1350 Alloy • EC-grade Wire & Insulated Cable99.5%+ pure aluminium, excellent electrical conductivity and highly premium scrap grade.
Commercial Sheet & Siding3000 / 5000 Series • Cladding, Plates, ScaffoldHigh corrosion resistance, slight manganese or magnesium trace, processed via balers.

Industries We Buy From

We manage large-scale commercial aluminium waste asset recovery for a broad range of sectors. Different industries produce distinct configurations of scrap, and our material handling teams are trained to segregate and process each safely:

  • Aluminium Fabrication Companies: Generating high-frequency offcuts, profiles, extrusion remnants, and fine turnings from daily CNC and cutting operations.
  • Construction & Demolition Contractors: Sourcing heavy structural profiles, windows, doors, cladding sheets, AC composite panels, and scaffolding sections.
  • HVAC & Ducting Contractors: Producing aluminium condensors, fin-tubes, heavy-gauge ventilation ducts, and HVAC system frames.
  • Factories & Manufacturing Plants: Contributing obsolete machinery casings, stamping offcuts, casting overflows, and packaging line waste.
  • Marine & Shipyards: Discarding high-performance marine-grade 5000-series structural plates, hull frames, and gangways.
  • Government & Municipal Projects: Supplying retired road signs, light poles, utility infrastructure wires, and architectural window systems from building retrofits.
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Common Sources of Aluminium Scrap

Our yards receive and process aluminium scrap from direct commercial and civic projects. Common sources include:

  • Office & Retail Fit-Outs: Renovation of corporate offices yielding hundreds of kilograms of aluminium partitions, framing channels, and false ceiling grids.
  • Villa & Apartment Renovations: Upgrades replacing old, heavy single-glazed aluminium doors and window frames with modern double-glazed energy-efficient profiles.
  • Industrial Factory Upgrades: Modernization of processing lines resulting in obsolete aluminium conveyor frames, casting molds, and machinery housings.
  • Facade Cladding Replacements: Major replacement projects removing old combustible composite panels (ACP) and installing fire-safe solid aluminium plates.
  • Civil Maintenance Works: Scrap generated from upgrading public scaffolding, temporary work platforms, structural ladders, and municipal installations.

Our Aluminium Recycling Process

Recycling industrial and commercial aluminium scrap requires advanced sorting technologies and strict compliance. At 800 Scrap, we execute a comprehensive circular process:

  1. Secure Collection & Skip Placement: We deploy specialized roll-on/roll-off skips (10m³ to 40m³) and flatbed crane loaders directly to your fabrication facility or construction site.
  2. Precise Digital Weighing: All materials are weighed on certified, municipality-approved digital scales and weigh-bridges, ensuring total transparency.
  3. Alloy Sortation & Spectrometry: We use handheld XRF (X-Ray Fluorescence) spectrometers to instantly verify alloy codes (e.g., distinguishing 6063 from 1000 or 5000 series), maximizing your payout.
  4. Mechanical Preparation: Obstructions like rubber window gaskets, glass residues, iron screws, and insulation foam are mechanically sheared and separated from the aluminium cores.
  5. Compaction & Baling: Light scrap sheets and profiles are compressed in high-powered hydraulic balers into dense blocks, optimizing logistics and furnace charge efficiency.
  6. Smelting & Refining: Clean sorted aluminium is melted in local secondary refineries, where dross is removed, and liquid metal is cast into high-quality ingots for standard industrial manufacturing.
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Aluminium Scrap Valuation Factors

The market rate for aluminium scrap is dynamic and changes daily. Our valuation team analyzes several core variables to offer the highest possible rebates for your materials:

  • Alloy Series & Grade: High-purity alloys like clean 6063 extrusions, EC-grade wiring, and 5000-series plates command top market prices compared to lower-purity cast aluminium.
  • Contamination & Attachments: Scrap that is clean of iron bolts, stainless rivets, paint, oil, glass, and plastic gaskets requires less mechanical sorting and receives maximum valuation.
  • Form & Density: Solid plates and heavy-gauge extrusions are simpler to melt with minimal dross loss, resulting in higher rebates than fine turnings or thin foils.
  • Overall Volume & Tonnage: Large industrial deliveries and corporate contracts exceeding several tons qualify for our special commercial bonuses and subsidized transport logistics.
  • LME Index Tracking: Our trading desk monitors the London Metal Exchange hourly, translating global commodity rates fairly to protect our commercial partners.

Why Choose 800 Scrap as Your Aluminium Recycling Partner?

Fair Market LME Payouts

Our commercial quotes are directly connected to live London Metal Exchange rates, ensuring you always get the absolute highest value for your aluminium scrap.

Calibrated Digital Weigh-bridges

We operate fully calibrated, municipal-approved digital platform scales and heavy weigh-bridges to guarantee 100% transparent weighing.

Commercial Skip Bins (10-40m³)

We deploy specialized, heavy-duty scrap skip containers directly to your fabrication yard, factory, or demolition site, swapping them promptly as they fill.

Same-Day Loader Fleet Dispatch

Equipped with heavy-duty flatbeds, knuckle-boom cranes, and loaders, our logistics crew ensures rapid site clearances UAE-wide.

Licensed & Eco-Compliant Partner

We are a fully licensed and environmentally compliant recycling organization, supplying green disposal certificates for corporate ESG audits.

Advanced Alloy Separation

We use handheld XRF spectrometers to identify and sort aluminium alloys on the spot, upgrading mixed scrap into higher-purity premium lines.

Instant Secure Cash Settlements

Get compensated immediately. We settle accounts on-site upon weighing and inspection, offering flexible cash, company cheque, or wire options.

Dedicated Commercial Support

A dedicated recycling manager coordinates your commercial account, managing logistics, skips, and regular billing cycles.

Geographical Service Areas in the UAE

From our central non-ferrous processing hubs, 800 Scrap maintains comprehensive logistics and pickup services across all Seven Emirates of the United Arab Emirates. We regularly dispatch our cranes, trucks, and flatbed loader crews to serve:

  • Dubai: Al Quoz Industrial Areas (1, 2, 3, 4), Ras Al Khor Industrial Area, Jebel Ali Free Zone (JAFZA), Dubai Investment Park (DIP), Dubai Industrial City (DIC).
  • Abu Dhabi: Mussafah Industrial Area, ICAD (Industrial City Abu Dhabi), KEZAD (Khalifa Economic Zones Abu Dhabi), Al Ain Industrial.
  • Sharjah: Sajaa Industrial Area, Hamriyah Free Zone, Industrial Areas 1 to 17.
  • Ajman: Al Jurf Industrial Area, Ajman Free Zone.
  • Ras Al Khaimah: Al Ghail Industrial Zone, RAKEZ, Al Jazirah Al Hamra.
  • Fujairah: Fujairah Free Zone, Port of Fujairah.
  • Umm Al Quwain: UAQ Industrial Area.

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Maximize Your Corporate Salvage Rebates Today

Get a prompt LME-linked quote for your commercial architectural extrusions, composite cladding panels, fabrication turnings, and utility cables. We place skips of all sizes and manage all transport, loading, and municipal documentation. Settle your accounts with instant payments today.