Our clients are often unaware of all of the different types of material that we trade in. We have formulated a new list showing all of the items that we are now purchasing:

Precious Metals

• Gold
• Silver
• Platinum
• Palladium
• Rhodium
• Iridium
• Ruthenium

Solders

• Tinmans Solder
• Plumbers Solder
• 60/40
• 63/37
• Whitemetal
• Pewter (Hollow & Counter)
• Drosses
• Pastes
• SAC Alloys
• All other grades of tin/lead alloys

High Value Metals

• Tungsten
• Cobalt
• Nickel
• Titanium
• Tantalum
• Molybdenum
• Indium
• Mercury
• Catalytic Converters
• Nickel Alloys (Alnico, Brightray, Cupro/Nickel, Hastalloy, Inconel, Monel, Nickel Silver, Nimonic, Stellite, Waspalloy)

Computer Scrap

• Computer Boards
• Graphics Cards, PCI Cards, Video Cards, Sound Cards etc
• Memory (RAM)
• Processor Chips
• P2 Chips (Slot 1) Cards
• Hard Drives
• Hard Drive Boards
• IC’s
• Connectors

Other Electronic Scrap

• Any Printed Circuit Boards (MOD, Console Boards, Telecom Boards etc)
• All Precious Metal Containing Components

Contact us for the latest prices

Tel: 01279 423743

Tantalum

 Tantalum is a rare, hard, blue-gray, lustrous transition metal that is highly corrosion resistant. It is part of the refractory metals group, which are widely used as minor component in alloys.

Ta Wedding Band

The chemical inertness of tantalum makes it a valuable substance for laboratory equipment and a substitute for platinum, but its main use today is in tantalum capacitors in electronic equipment such as mobile phones, DVD players, video game systems and computers.

AWA Refiners Ltd are buyers of tantalum and tantalum alloys.

Please contact our buying tel for the latest price.

TEL : 01279 423743

X Box Circuit Board

AWA Refiners Ltd are buyers of computer console circuit boards including:

 X Box circuit boards (PCB’s)

 Playstation circuit boards (PCB’s)

and any other circuit boards from electronic equipment.

Playstation Circuit Board

AWA Refiners will value and offer competitive rates for scrap printed circuit boards, in order to recycle or refine them for any precious metals they may contain.

Scrap gold can be found in many different printed circuit boards and integrated circuits.

TEL: 01279 423743

What is a Hard Drive?

A hard disk drive (HDD; also hard drive, hard disk, or disk drive) is a device for storing and retrieving digital information, primarily computer data.

It consists of one or more rigid (hence “hard”) rapidly rotating discs (often referred to as platters), coated with magnetic material and with magnetic heads arranged to write data to the surfaces and read it from them.

Why do hard drives need to be destroyed securely?

Hard drives contain all of the key data of a computer system. Many companies have information stored on their systems which is secure data and they must have proof that the data is destroyed and not going to get into anyone elses hands.

Hard drives can be wiped using certain software, but there is no better assurance than having the drive physically shredded into tiny pieces giving you complete piece of mind that the data is destroyed.

AWA Refiners Hard Drive Destruction

At AWA we offer a complete service to destroy your hard drives. All drives are shredded and once this is complete we can offer a certificate of destruction to show that the work has been completed.

Once the drives are shredded they are then sent for recycling. The precious metals are extracted from the plastics and all materials are then recycled with 0% going to landfill.

Payment

Not only do AWA Refiners offer a complete destruction of your hard drives; but as we are one of the leading precious metal refiners in the Uk we also offer you a payment for your drives.

Hard drives contain printed circuit boards which are rich in gold, silver, palladium and copper. Although the boards are shredded we can still extract the precious metals enabling us to offer you a good price for your hard drives.

A lot of companies charge to destroy hard drives – AWA pay for your scrap hard drives!!

The website has just had it highest ever visits in history with over 1500 people enjoying the look of our fantastic NEW website.

The website now includes full details of the materials that we process with complex sections on precious metal refining, computer board recycling, solder smelting, and the purchasing of high value metals.

We also have a company profile page dedicated to the history of the company along with photographs of the team giving it a personal feel.

Blog

Our weekly blog gives infomation on the metals that we purchase, current market prices and any news updates in the trade; giving an all round information centre for new and existing customers.

The expansion card (also expansion board, adapter card or accessory card) in computing is a printed circuit board that can be inserted into an expansion slot of a computer motherboard to add functionality to a computer system.

Graphics Card

One edge of the expansion card holds the contacts (the edge connector) that fit exactly into the slot. They establish the electrical contact between the electronics (mostly integrated circuits) on the card and on the motherboard.

Connectors mounted on the bracket allow the connection of external devices to the card. Around one to seven expansion cards can be added to a computer system. 19 or more expansion cards can be installed in backplane systems.

The primary purpose of an expansion card is to provide or expand on features not offered by the motherboard.

Up Stat!

Statistics On The Up!

AWA Refiners Ltd has processed a record tonnage of expansion cards throughout the month of January increasing our intake of PCB’s up to our highest ever statistics.

Top Prices Paid For Motherboards & Cards

For up to date prices on cards:

• Graphics Cards
• PCI Cards
• Sound Cards
• Video Cards

Call the AWA buying team on TEL: 01279 423743

In personal computers, a motherboard is the central printed circuit board (PCB) and holds many of the crucial components of the system. The motherboard is sometimes alternatively known as the mainboard, system board, or, on Apple computers, the logic board. It is also sometimes casually shortened to mobo.

History

Prior to the arrival of the microprocessor, a computer was usually built in a card-cage case or mainframe with components connected by a backplane consisting of a set of slots themselves connected with wires; in very old designs the wires were discrete connections between card connector pins, but printed circuit boards soon became the standard practice.

  The Central Processing Unit, memory and peripherals were housed on individual printed circuit boards which plugged into the backplate.  In the late 1980s, motherboards began to include single ICs (called Super I/O chips) capable of supporting a set of low-speed peripherals: keyboard, mouse, floppy disk drive, serial ports, and parallel ports. As of the late 1990s, many personal computer motherboards supported a full range of audio, video, storage, and networking functions without the need for any expansion cards at all; higher-end systems for 3D gaming and computer graphics typically retained only the graphics card as a separate component.

Recycling Of Scrap Motherboards

AWA Laboratory

AWA Refiners will value and offer competitive rates for unused or scrap computer boards, in order to recycle or refine them for any precious metals they may contain.

Scrap gold, silver, palladium and copper can be found in motherboards. Gold is an excellent conductor of electricity and highly resistant to corrosion, which makes it an attractive proposition for manufacturers to use in contact points within small computer chips.

What Do We Look For?

Using the latest technology, our technicians will strip the boards of any components that have metallic properties present in our controlled laboratory environment. Examples of computer board scrap, and their materials, include:

• Integrated circuits that contain gold
• Re-useable circuits that can be re-distributed
• Gold-plated plugs or connectors that may be refined
• Other substrates that contain precious metals that can be treated as a payable material
• Edge connectors that can be chemically refined.

Leading Buyers Of Scrap Computer Motherboards

AWA Refiners Ltd are one of the leading buyers of scrap computer boards in the Uk. We pride ourselves on customer service and swift payment which ensures our customers return year in year out.

For up to date prices on scrap motherboards please contact our buying team on:

Tel: 01279 423743

Morning figures show the tin market has increased once again to over £14,000 per metric ton. This is a vast improvement on the £12,000 LME just 4 weeks ago.

Tin is used in many different alloys such as:

Solder joints, whitemetals, drosses, pastes, typemetal, hollow/counter pewter, tinmans solder, plumbers solder, 60/40, 63/37.

AWA Refiners are leading buyers of tin/lead alloys. Please contact our buying department today for competitive prices.

Tel: 01279 423743

a malleable metal alloy, traditionally 85–99% tin, with the remainder consisting of copper, antimony, bismuth and lead.

Pewter Mug

Copper and antimony act as hardeners while lead is common in the lower grades of pewter, which have a bluish tint. It has a low melting point, around 170–230 °C (338–446°F), depending on the exact mixture of metals.

The word pewter is probably a variation of the word spelter, a colloquial name for zinc.

History

Pewter was first used around the beginning of the Bronze Age in the Near East. The earliest piece of pewter found is from an Egyptian tomb from 1450 BC.

Pewter Figure

Scrap Pewter

AWA purchase scrap pewter in various forms. Hollow pewter is the most common, consisting of jugs, bowls, plates and ornaments which we smelt into large ingots for recycling back into the industry.

Counter pewter is also common at AWA Refiners. This pewter was used in manufacturing bar counter tops. A lot of bars are now replacing these with more modern style materials therefore creating scrap counter pewter for smelting.

Buyers of Pewter.

AWA Refiners are leading buyers of pewter. For up to date prices please contact our traders on Tel: 01279 423743

Spot gold hit a fresh two week high at $1625.30 per t/oz today making the price of printed circuit boards set to increase once again as we head into the second week of January.

Silver is also holding steady at a price of $28.18 per t/oz which is an improvement on the $26 per t/oz that it hit on the 29th Dec 2011.

Buyers of gold and silver

For latest prices on gold & silver please contact the AWA Traders on:

01279 423743