Is PCB recycling a profitable business ?

The reason why PCB recycling is a profitable business as below: For one thing, the precious metals in waste circuit boards are not only many types but also high in content. For another thing, recyclable waste circuit board are easy to collect. Furthermore, PCB recycling business is a small investment high profitable business.

Firstly, scrap PCB boards is a mixture of resin fiber and precious metals, which has a relatively high economic value. According to the statistics, the metal content is as high as 40% in scrap PCB boards, the largest of these is copper, in addition to gold, tin, nickel, lead, silicon and other precious metals, many of which are rare metals. These precious metals can be can be used in industry, electronics and other fields, also can be sold directly on the market at a good price.

Market research results show that the market price of copper is about $6 per kilogram, the price of tin is about $20per kilogram. Not to mention the price of gold, per gram gold can be sold for 40 dollars. What’s more, some rare metals in waste circuit boards are more expensive than gold.

Resin fiber and precious metals separated from scrap PCB boards

Secondly, the raw material, PCB boards, are abundant and easy to get with relatively low cost. As we all know that intelligent electrical appliances are completely filled with our life, which directly leads to the generation of scrap PCB boards. There are hundreds of millions of tons of scrap PCB boards in the world every day. Such as all kinds of waste circuit boards, computer boards, TV boards, and all kinds of waste electrical motherboards and processing waste. These scrap PCB boards can be seen everywhere in our daily life and can be collected easily.

PCB board recycling machine

But beyond that easy to start is also one reason why PCB recycling is a profitable business. The PCB board recycling machine is designed with automatic system, so easy to operate, generally one or two person is ok. This way saves labor cost a lot. What's more, DOING PCB board recycling machine has small land occupy size to low land cost for high PCB recycling business profit.

In conclusion, PCB recycling is a profitable business has a large market in the world. If you are interested in PCB recycling business, please feel free to contact us.