Scrap metal collection and buying in St Helens
Copper was smelted at Ravenhead in the 1780s. Today we buy scrap copper, cable, stainless and steel from businesses across the borough and collect it from site.
- Licensed dealerA Wigan Council scrap metal site licence, on the public register.
- Paid by bank transferStraight into your account, with a weight and grade record for each load.
- Graded, not lumped inEach metal priced for what it is, not as the cheapest thing in the pile.
- Paperwork doneWaste transfer notes for every collection, so your records stay complete.
St Helens has a longer history with metal than most people realise. Around 1780 the Parys Mine Company built a copper smelter at Ravenhead for Anglesey ore, under Thomas Williams, whom Matthew Boulton called the ‘copper king’. The Vulcan Foundry at Newton-le-Willows, founded in the 1830s, built locomotives for much of its life and closed in 2002, and Earlestown’s Viaduct Foundry became the London and North Western Railway’s wagon works.
The borough is still full of firms that make, fix and fit things in metal. Resilient Contracting buys their copper, cable, brass, aluminium, stainless and steel, collected from your site and graded metal by metal. You are paid by bank transfer, and each purchase is logged with your company’s details, as the Scrap Metal Dealers Act 2013 requires.
What we buy in St Helens
Scrap we buy from St Helens businesses
Cable, copper, brass, stainless, swarf and steel, collected from sites in St Helens and the estates around it, graded and paid by bank transfer.
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Scrap cable
SWA and power cable, copper and aluminium conductor runs, rewire offcuts and whole drums, sorted by type and paid for by bank transfer. Find out more -
Scrap copper
Bright wire, heavy copper, tube, pipe and mixed copper, each grade kept apart so you are paid for what it really is. Find out more -
Scrap stainless steel
Industrial stainless from plant, ducting, tanks and fabrication, sorted by grade so its nickel content counts. Find out more -
Scrap aluminium
Extrusions, sections, sheet, castings and turnings, kept clean and separate from steel and plastics. Find out more -
Scrap brass
Brass fittings, valves, castings and turnings, with steel and plastic parts removed so the brass is not downgraded. Find out more -
Scrap lead
Sheet lead, flashing and pipe from roofing, refurbishment and strip-out work, bought with full ID checks. Find out more -
Swarf recycling
Turnings and chips from lathes and machining centres, bought by metal, drained of coolant and collected in bins or skips. Find out more -
Scrap steel and iron
Structural steel, plate, cast iron, machinery and mixed ferrous scrap from industry, demolition and site clearance. Find out more -
Strip-out and decommissioning scrap
Plant rooms, stainless ducting, steelwork and cable runs from strip-outs and decommissioning, segregated on site and paid for. Find out more -
Scrap metal collection
Cages, bins, bulk bags and roll-on roll-off skips for business and trade scrap, collected, weighed, graded and paid for. Find out more -
Commercial waste brokerage
General waste, recycling, cardboard and the rest of your site’s waste arranged through registered collectors, alongside your scrap. Find out more
Where we collect in and around St Helens
Industrial estates and business areas we cover, including:
- Sutton
- Sherdley Road Industrial Estate
- Sherdley Business Park
- Mere Grange
- Sutton Fold Industrial Park
- Abbotsfield Industrial Park
- Reginald Road Industrial Park
- Bold Industrial Estate
- Parr Industrial Estate
- Pocket Nook
- Chalon Way Industrial Estate
- Rainford Industrial Estate
- Earlestown
- Sankey Valley Industrial Estate
- Garswood
Not on the list? Call 01942 906041 with your postcode.
Sutton, Sherdley and the M62 estates
South of the centre, the Sherdley Road estate and Sherdley Business Park, Mere Grange on the Linkway and Sutton Fold on Lancots Lane sit close to junction 7 of the M62, with the Abbotsfield and Reginald Road parks nearby and Bold Industrial Estate near junction 8. Manufacturers, trade firms and contractors here produce steel offcuts, copper pipe, cable and swarf.
Closer in are Pocket Nook, Parr and the Chalon Way estate, and Rainford Industrial Estate on Mill Lane includes a maker of fabricated metal products. Out east, the Sankey Valley Industrial Estate at Earlestown is a short run from junction 23 of the M6. Demolition in the town centre has been planned around a high recycling target, and smaller jobs deserve the same care: steel, cable and pipework from a strip-out should be sorted and sold.
How it works
From a phone call to money in the bank
Say what the metal is and give us a rough weight or a skip size. A photo or two speeds it up. You will know how it will be priced before anything moves.
Call or send photos
What the metal is, how it is mixed, roughly how much and where it is. A few photos usually tell us most of it.
Collection arranged
A one-off pick-up, or cages, bins or a skip on site so it can be kept apart as it comes out.
Weighed and graded
Each metal is weighed and graded for what it is, so clean copper is not paid as mixed scrap.
Paid by bank transfer
Payment against the weights and grades, with a waste transfer note for the load.
We’re a plumbing and heating firm in Sutton. How should we keep our scrap copper?
Separately, and as clean as you can. Copper pipe with no solder, fittings or insulation is graded higher than pipe with joints, paint or brass still attached. Keep copper cylinders on their own, brass valves and fittings in their own bucket, and steel radiators and boilers apart from both. A couple of lidded drums and a cage make that easy.
We look after maintenance at a large plant in St Helens. Can you take the scrap from a shutdown?
Yes. Shutdowns release a lot of metal in a short time: old pipework, valves, motors, cable, cable tray and steelwork. We can place roll-on roll-off containers and cages before the work starts, agree how each metal is kept apart, and collect as they fill. Anything that held process chemicals or oil must be cleaned or declared first, because contaminated metal may need a specialist route.
How do I get today’s price for my scrap?
Call 01942 906041 or send us a few photos through the quote form with a rough weight or volume. Scrap prices follow the metals markets and change from day to day, so we price on what you actually have at the time, by grade, rather than quoting a figure that could be out of date tomorrow.
How will we be paid? Can you pay cash?
By bank transfer. Paying cash for scrap metal has been illegal in England and Wales since the Scrap Metal Dealers Act 2013, so any dealer still offering cash is breaking the law. You get a record of what was weighed, the grade and the price, so the payment is easy to reconcile in your accounts.
Do you collect from site?
Yes. We arrange collections from business and trade sites, and can leave cages, bins, bulk bags or a roll-on roll-off skip on site so metals are kept apart as they come out. Tell us what you produce and how much, and we will suggest the right set-up and collection frequency.
Nearby areas we cover
We buy and collect scrap across Wigan and the North West.
- Skelmersdale4 miles from our Martland Park site
- Warrington12 miles from our Martland Park site
- WiganOur home town
- Leigh8 miles from our Martland Park site
- Liverpool16 miles from our Martland Park site
- Chorley7 miles from our Martland Park site
- Bolton10 miles from our Martland Park site
- Salford17 miles from our Martland Park site
- Manchester19 miles from our Martland Park site
- Bury16 miles from our Martland Park site
- Preston14 miles from our Martland Park site
Sell your scrap
Sell your scrap in St Helens
Tell us what metal you have at your St Helens site, roughly how much and when it is ready. Photos help. We will come back with how it will be priced and collected.
- Call 01942 906041For today’s price and a collection
- Emailinfo@resilient-contracting.co.uk
- Our siteUnit 11 Otterswood Square, Martland Park, Wigan WN5 0LF