Electronic scrap purchase prices & sorting criteria

Class 1-A PCBs are old PCBs with galvanically gold-plated contacts / connector strips, very many small and densely placed chips, mostly from old mainframe computers / servers. The circuit boards must not be stripped, attachments such as metal sheets, frames and heat sinks are removed.

15,96 €/kg up to 1t

Prices for special or larger lots on request / after material inspection

Class 1-B PCBs are PCBs from computers / industrial equipment which have visible gold-plating and numerous chips / transistors and plug-in contacts containing precious metals. In the case of motherboards / plug-in cards (sound + graphics cards), only old circuit boards manufactured before 2000. Metal sheets and heat sinks are removed, as are batteries.

11,97 €/kg up to 1t

Prices for special or larger lots on request / after material inspection

Class 1-C PCBs are colourful motherboards without attachments from computers (yellow, blue, orange, purple, also green PC motherboards, graphics cards / sound cards manufactured from 2020 onwards / starting from Pentium4 / AMD Athlon PC generation). They also include Class 1-A and 1-B PCBs from which ferrous and aluminium attachments such as metal sheets and heat sinks have not been removed, or from which components containing precious metals such as chips have been removed.

3,59 €/kg up to 1t

Prices for special or larger lots on request / after material inspection

Class 2-A PCBs are PCBs from industrial equipment which, however, unlike class 1 PCBs, have hardly any visible gold contacts. The circuit boards are equipped with small chips containing precious metals, transistors and quartz crystals, but must not contain any components (heat sinks, transformers, capacitors) larger than a thumb. Also included are class 1-C PCBs with attachments.

3,59 €/kg up to 1t

Prices for special or larger lots on request / after material inspection

Class 2-B PCBs are PCBs from industrial equipment which, however, unlike class 1 PCBs, have hardly any visible gold contacts. The circuit boards are equipped with only a few chips containing precious metals, transistors and quartz crystals, and may occasionally contain component attachments such as heat sinks, transformers or relays.

1,91 €/kg up to 1t

Prices for special or larger lots on request / after material inspection

Class 3 PCBs are boards with large components such as capacitors, transformers, heat sinks and only a few components / chips or contacts containing precious metals. They originate mostly from monitors, power supply controls or consumer electronics. They also include class 1-And 2 PCBs if they contain very large / heavy attachments.

0,87 €/kg up to 1t

Prices for special or larger lots on request / after material inspection

Rear walls are the connector strip board of a mainframe computer / server. The price depends on the gold content or whether the contact pins are completely gold-plated or only the tip, on the coating thickness, the weight or thickness of the base plate, and on whether all attachments such as metal frames have been removed.

3.00-12.00 €/kg up to 1t

Prices for special or larger lots on request / after material inspection

Info: Plug strip boards from normal computers are not rear walls, which belong to class 1-B PCBs.

Computer plugs or PC plugs are connectors with light gold-plated contacts for monitors, printers, internal computer cabling, which have been cut off from the cable or ribbon cable close behind the plug housing.

2,39 €/kg up to 1t

Prices for special or larger lots on request / after material inspection

Info: Special connectors with considerably higher-quality gold plating, such as those used in industry, correspond to Class I PCBs up to and including rear walls in terms of their purchase value.

Gold plugs are connectors with heavily gold-plated contacts / pins, usually with light plastic housings, and mostly from military, aircraft equipment or very old electrical equipment. The gold content in these plugs is significantly higher than in normal PC plugs.

4 to 50 Euro/kg depending on gold content

Prices for special or larger lots on request / after material inspection

Mobile phone PCBs or circuit boards from mobile phones / smartphones with high-quality gold contacts (e.g. for SIM cards) and components containing precious metals.

No telephone PCBs from normal cordless phones

35,12 €/kg up to 100kg

Prices for special or larger lots on request / after material inspection

Info: Prices for assembled mobile phone circuit boards only, mobile phone PCBs without components are valued according to their precious metal content.

Old group A mobile phonesHandys are standard mobile phones with dial keypad and small display. The circuit boards contain precious metals and other recyclable material. As some of the housings are difficult to open, we also buy them unassembled. Only the battery has to be removed. The cover must be removed to facilitate inspection.

15,16 €/kg up to 1t

Prices for special or larger lots on request / after material inspection

Info: Prices apply to “real” mobile phones only, not for normal cordless phones

Old Group B Smartphones are mobile phones with touch-sensitive screens and often equipped with digital and video cameras. The components and PCBs contain precious metals that can be recycled. Since the housings are sometimes difficult to open, we also buy smartphones unassembled. Only the battery has to be removed. The cover must be removed to facilitate inspection.

7,18 €/kg up to 1t

Prices for special or larger lots on request / after material inspection

Info: Prices apply only to real Smartphones, not for normal cordless phones and not for PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants).

Old laptops / notebooks contain precious metals in the installed components and PCBs that can be recycled. As some of the housings are difficult to open, we also buy them unassembled. Only the battery has to be removed. If possible, the screen should also be removed. There are differences in the purchase price.

Minimum purchase quantity 100kg.

1,59 €/kg for notebooks without display

0,00 €/kg for notebooks with display

Info: We do not buy single notebooks. Only commercial quantities from 100kg

Ceramic CPU Goldcap processors as well as old 286, 386 or 486 ceramic processors from computers / industrial computers without attachments such as fans or heat sinks.

271,41 Euro/kg up to 100kg

Prices for special or larger lots on request / after material inspection

Info: Prices for Goldcap processors without heat sink or fan attachments

Ceramic CPU Intel / AMD processors from computers / industrial computers without attachments such as fans or heat sinks.

For AMD ceramic processors we also offer purchase prices for CPU with aluminium cooling plate.

159,65 Euro/kg up to 100kg Ceramic CPUs, clean
Price for ceramic processors without heat sink or fan attachments

124,53 Euro/kg up to 100kg AMD-CPU with aluminium plate
Price for AMD ceramic processors with aluminium cooling plate

Prices for special or larger lots on request / after material inspection

Plastic CPU processors from computers / notebooks / industrial computers without attachments such as fans or heat sinks. The colour is mostly black, green or brown.

Plastic CPU (mostly green) with cooling plate, which have not been removed, have a separate purchase price.

65,45/kg up to 100kg plastic CPUs clean

Price for plastic processors without heat sink or fan attachments

Prices for special or larger lots on request / after material inspection

Plastic CPU processors with cooling plate from computers / notebooks / industrial computers with attachments like fans or heat sinks / cooling plate. The colour is mostly black, green or brown.

20,75/kg up to 100kg plastic CPU with cooling plate

Prices apply to plastic processors with cooling plate

Prices for special or larger lots on request / after material inspection

PCB / slot processors from computers / industrial computers without attachments such as housings, fans or heat sinks.

43,90 Euro/kg up to 100kg slot CPUs, clean

Price for slot PCBs without heat sink or fan attachments

Prices for special or larger lots on request / after material inspection

RAM / main memory from computers / industrial computers. A distinction is made between two types

• RAM gold edge, where the terminal contact strip is gold-plated.
• RAM silver edge, where the terminal contact strip is tin-plated.

43,90 Euro/kg up to 100kg RAM gold edge

15,96 Euro/kg up to 100kg RAM silver edge

Info: Price applies to pre-sorted RAM memory boards

Prices for special or larger lots on request / after material inspection

Chips / Eproms / ICs from computers / industrial computers. For normal black chips, a distinction is made between the following types:

• Ceramic chips, ceramic e-proms
• Plastic chips, pastic ICs

Special chips / components, telephone chips, bank card chips, SIM cards, etc. For larger quantities, price calculation according to precious metal content.

19,95 €/kg up to 100kg ceramic eproms

13,57 €/kg up to 100kg plastic chips

Special chips according to precious metal content

Prices for special or larger lots on request / after material inspection

Gold-plated PCB frames from production / bare PCBs with chemical or galvanic gold plating.

As a precious metal recycling company, we are not interested in bare PCBs without gold plating (only tin-plated).

Prices according to gold content

Prices for special or larger lots on request / after material content analysis

Hard disks / computer hard disks with control board and aluminium housing without other attachments.

1,43 €/kg up to 1t

Prices for special or larger lots on request / after material inspection

Drives: CD drives, DVD drives, burners and disk drives Each with control circuit board in metal housing.

0,31 €/kg up to 1t

Prices for special or larger lots on request / after material inspection

Old optical data storage media are CDs, DVDs and Blu-Ray discs that are no longer used, scratched or no longer readable. The carrier discs are mainly made of polycarbonate, a valuable raw material for the plastics and chemical industry. For this reason, optical data carriers can be recycled and sent for reuse. Only data carriers without sleeves are accepted.

0,05 €/kg up to 1t

Prices for special or larger lots on request / after material inspection

Info: We do not buy single CDs / DVDs / BluRay Discs. Only commercial quantities from 50kg Broken or cut discs will not be reimbursed.

Power supply units: Computer power supplies, toroidal transformers with copper coil.

0,35 €/kg up to 1t

Prices for special or larger lots on request / after material inspection

Cables: Power cables, computer cables, data cables, copper cables.

0,74 €/kg cable

0,70 €/kg cable with plug

0,40 €/kg ribbon cable with plug

0,00 €/kg ribbon cable without plug

Prices for special or larger lots on request / after material inspection

Deflection units are deflection coils with copper wire, which come from the recycling of old tube TVs / monitors.

0,00 €/kg up to 1t

Prices for special or larger lots on request / after material inspection

Relays: Switching contacts with copper coil and contacts containing precious metals or contact rivets made of a silver alloy, silver-palladium, silver-gold-plated or Au-Ni, Ag-Ni, etc.

The purchase price depends on the precious metal content or the mixture.

0.50-5.00 €/kg depending on the type

Prices for special or larger lots on request / after material inspection

Fans: Cooling ventilators / computer fans / processor fans with metal or aluminium housing and drive motor with copper coil.

0,00 €/kg up to 1t

Prices for special or larger lots on request / after material inspection

Components / contacts: Other contact materials containing precious metals, contact rivets / punched strips or components such as reed relays, quartz crystals, transistors, resistors. The composition of the precious metals in these materials is too variable to allow the calculation of flat-rate purchase price groups. In this case, the remuneration or the value determination is carried out according to the metal content evaluation.

According to precious metal content

Prices for special or larger lots on request / after material inspection / laboratory analysis

Non-ferrous metals / special metals: Non-ferrous metals / special metals from the recycling of electronic scrap or as production residues from electronics manufacturers can be, for example, copper, brass, aluminium, tin, lead, tantalum, molybdenum, indium etc.. In this case, daily purchase prices may apply that are strongly dependent on the quantity and purity of the metal type.

Daily prices depending on quantity and material

Prices for larger quantities of production residues on request

Info: As a precious metal recycler and trader, non-ferrous metals are not the main focus of our ESG activities. In the case of non-ferrous metals, from the perspective of transport costs, the best solution may be to sell them to a local scrap dealer.