There’s not much gold in a pile of scrap metal these days. Wichita’s scrap dealers are feeling stressed as falling prices for recycled steel, copper and other metals have squashed their margins. It ...

Inflationary worries are here to stay. First it was a fuel price hike because of excise levies and now the metal sector is passing on the burden of a hike in excise duty to customers.

MARIETTA – As the U.S. dollar has gained strength in 2015, scrap metal value has dropped drastically from last year’s export prices. Wares like plate and structural scrap were sold at almost three ...

• Scrap metal: About $60 per ton is what some local scrap yards pay the public for the steel found in items such as stoves and refrigerators, down from about $250 a ton 90 days ago. A scrap yard may ...

While the falling price of copper is bad news for scrap-metal operators, there is a silver lining of sorts. The Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office reports that, because of the low value of the metal, ...