Short answer: Furnace-ready scrap is clean, correctly sorted, free of hazardous or sealed items and cut or compacted to a size and density that suit the furnace and its loading equipment, so that it can be charged and melted without extra processing, and the closer your scrap is to that description the less the buyer has to do and the better the price you can expect.
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List Free →Clean
Free of non-metal material, coatings where practical and other metals mixed in.
Right size
Cut or baled to dimensions that the furnace and handling equipment can manage.
Safe
Free of sealed containers, pressure vessels, explosives and radioactive or hazardous items.
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