Weighed honestly.
Settled in a day.
Ironbay Metals buys ferrous and non-ferrous scrap and handles end-of-life electronics for businesses across the East Bay — on a county-sealed scale, with every grade call written on the ticket, and payment by ACH within one business day.
County-sealed and certified. Gross, tare and net on every ticket.
Called in front of you or photographed at the scale. Downgrades written with the reason.
ACH inside one business day. Check on the spot at the yard.
Two streams, one dock.
Most of our customers have both — a bin of production scrap and a closet of dead equipment. Splitting that across two vendors costs you a second pickup, a second manifest and a second set of paperwork. It does not need to.
Metal
Graded to standard specifications, weighed on a sealed scale, settled at the posted price for the grade it actually is — not the grade it was dropped as.
Electronics & IT assets
Anything with a data-bearing device gets a serialized chain of custody from your dock to the shredder. Marketable equipment is settled back to you; the rest is recycled under a zero-landfill policy.
Four ways we show up.
Scheduled pickup & containers
Roll-offs from 10 to 40 yards, lugger boxes, self-dumping hoppers, gaylords and drums. On a route or on call.
Container sizingIT asset disposition
Sanitization to NIST SP 800-88, serialized certificates of destruction, and a resale credit back to you on anything with life left.
Chain of custodyPlant clearance
Production line teardown, data-hall de-rack, tenant-improvement strip-out. We rig, cut, load and leave the slab swept.
How we scope itYard drop-off
Trade and public. Pull onto the scale, we grade in front of you, you leave with a check or an ACH confirmation.
Hours and directionsFive steps, and you can audit every one.
The complaint we hear about other yards is never the price on the board — it is what happened between the truck arriving and the check clearing. So here is the whole sequence, in order.
Book
Tell us the material and roughly how much. We size the container to what you are actually loading — a 40-yard box half full of steel is a haul you did not need.
Stage
We drop the box and you load at your pace. If you can keep grades separate at the source — copper out of the steel, stainless out of the aluminum — you will see it on the ticket.
Weigh
Gross, tare and net, printed on a scale sealed and certified by the county. You get the tare weight of the empty truck, not a number we remember from last week.
Grade
Graded in front of you at the yard, or photographed at the scale on a pickup. Any downgrade is written on the ticket with the reason. No silent deductions.
Settle
ACH within one business day of the ticket. Check on the spot at the yard. California requires ID and a three-day hold on certain non-ferrous payouts — we tell you before you load, not after.
The docks we know.
Manufacturing & fabrication
Drops, offcuts, turnings and swarf on a scheduled swap so the press never waits on a bin.
Data centers & IT
De-rack, wipe, shred, and a serialized certificate before the lease ends.
Construction & demolition
Rebar, structural, copper and conduit off an active site, sorted before it hits the box.
Property management
Tenant strip-outs and turnover clears on a fixed window, slab left broom-clean.
Electrical & mechanical trades
Wire, motors, transformers and panel take-outs, priced by recovery rather than guessed.
Labs & biotech
Decommissioned instruments with the data drives handled as data, not as metal.
Auto & fleet
Cores, wheels, batteries and converters, priced by serial and assay.
Municipal & utilities
Contract pricing, prevailing-wage crews and the reporting procurement needs.
Every argument we make is on one piece of paper.
You do not have to take any of this on trust. Everything above resolves to a printed ticket, and this is what one looks like — including the parts most yards would rather you did not read.
Not just the net. The tare is the weight of your empty truck, taken that day — not a figure carried over from last month, which is the oldest way to shave a few hundred pounds off every load.
If your #1 arrives with solder on it, this line says so and says why. A blank downgrade line means nothing was taken off. No silent reclassification after you have driven away.
Settled at the posted rate for the grade actually delivered. If the board moved between the quote and the scale, you get whichever is better — and that is written into our account terms, not left to the day.
Sealed and inspected by Alameda County. You can look it up. A yard that will not print the scale it used is telling you something.
Have a bin that needs to go?
Tell us what is in it. We will size the container, quote the grade and book the truck — usually the same day.