Salvage Yard Design Ideas and Tips

When a car gets old we think it as an eyesore but for a salvage yard it is a source of making money. Salvage yards pay a good amount of money to customers and businesses that want to get rid of old scrap and junk metal. They collect cars and other metal parts that are too old or too damaged to run. But sometimes these old cars contain such parts that are running just in perfect order and salvage yard businesses take the benefits of such body parts. You have to make such design of your business by which you can make people know what type of salvage material you are ready to accept.

Here in this article there are some ideas and tips of designing a salvage yard is given below by which you can gain some ideas about salvage yard business-

Metal Processing

It has been reported that millions and millions of scrap iron, copper and steel materials are processed every year by scrap metal processing centers. If you open a salvage yard in a highly industrialized area then acquiring benefits from such scrap metals will be very easy by following some steps. First of all you have to offer cleanup and hauling business services to industrialists, manufacturers, fabrication and other businesses that use metal in their products.

Secondly you have to make some prior investment in buying or renting trucks that you will use in the clean up process, you have to invest in scales for measuring the weights of the materials on truck; you will need cranes and other necessary equipments for arranging pieces of metal content and for processing them.

But, all these investments are just for one time because once you have owned these equipments you can use them in your business for lifetime. The final step in metal processing of salvage yard is selling the metals to a foundry or mills and that's where you acquire the result of your investment and gains profit.

Selling Parts of Cars

You can acquire another business option of salvage yard that is accepting totaled or old cars from which you can salvage good parts. This is a good business option because in this process there is a great chance of getting well running foreign car parts that you can sell at a good price. People who like to repair their own car looks for such salvage parts often and many car mechanics also looks for salvage parts to repair their customer’s car at an affordable price.

You can pull the good parts of the car by yourself to acquire more benefit or you can also let the mechanics remove the parts for discount. But, in this type of salvage yard business you will need a lot of space to keep the vehicles you would buy. You can make more money by allowing artist and collectors in your yard that need unused materials for their projects.

Cleanup Service

You can also offer cleanup and recycling services of your salvage yard business which is another good way of making money. Many people want to get rid of household goods, personnel goods and appliances that are made of metal. In this business process you can make money from the cleaning up process as well as by selling metals. You can sell them to foundries, metal brokers or to scarp processing facilities. The investment you need to make in this business process is buying or renting compactors and crushing machines and a vehicle that you need to transport metal to buyers.