Weighed in front of you
You watch the load go on the scales and you see the reading yourself. Nothing gets weighed out the back.
Cash for scrap metal in the northern suburbs
Fabrication, factory and depot loads collected right across the north. Weighed in front of you, paid on the spot.
- Open till 6:30pm weekdays
- Weighed in front of you
- Paid on the spot
We buy Copper, Aluminium, Brass, Stainless steel, Steel and heavy metal, Cable and wire, Car bodies, Lead, Batteries, Electric motors, Alloy wheels, Radiators, Catalytic converters, Offcuts, Site clearance.
Why people use this yard
Paid on the spot
Settled the moment the weight is agreed. No invoice to wait on and nobody to chase next week.
Open till 6:30pm weekdays
Two hours after most Melbourne yards shut, 5pm on Saturday, and after hours by arrangement if you ring ahead.
No minimum at the yard
A boot load is weighed the same way as a truck load. Factories and industrial sites, we collect.
Scrap metal recycling, Northern suburbs
Scrap metal recycling for the northern industrial belt and the suburbs around it.
Metal Plus buys scrap metal from the fabrication shops, engineering works, food plants and transport depots of Melbourne’s north, and from the builders and households in the suburbs between them. A lot of it is production scrap: sheet and plate offcuts, turnings, superseded plant and damaged racking.
It comes to our yard at 159 Ashley St, Braybrook, round the Western Ring Road. For a shop putting out offcuts every week, a bin on site, swapped as it fills, is usually the easiest arrangement. One-off factory and depot loads are collected, and anything from a house can be dropped at the yard, with no minimum. Graded in front of you, paid on the spot.
Where the yard is
A straight run up the ring road.
Braybrook sits at the western end of the Western Ring Road, which is the road most of these suburbs are on. It is a genuinely easy run, and the northern industrial estates are a regular stop rather than a special trip.
What we see from here
Scrap metal we buy from the northern suburbs.
Different regions produce genuinely different loads. This is what turns up from the northern suburbs, and roughly who it comes from.
Sheet metal and fabrication
Offcut sheet, drops, bar ends, punchings and swarf from the fabrication shops through Campbellfield, Thomastown and Somerton. Steel, stainless and aluminium, usually already separated by the shop.
Scrap steel and site binsEngineering and machining
Turnings, borings, offcut bar and superseded tooling. Worth keeping separate from general steel, because it is not priced the same.
Transport and depot
Damaged racking, pallet cages, strapping, tanks, old bodies and trailer components from the depots through Somerton, Epping and Tullamarine.
Plant and machinery
Machine tools, presses, compressors and line equipment coming out at end of life or on a refit. Electric motors are worth separating rather than sending as steel.
Machinery dismantlingFood processing
Stainless tanks, benching, conveyor and vessel work out of the processing plants the north is full of. Stainless grades vary a lot and we will show you what yours came out as.
The stainless grades we buyRenovation and household
Copper, cable and roofing out of the residential band through Coburg, Preston and Reservoir.
How it works
Four steps, and you are paid before you leave.
- 01
Ring us or send a photo
Tell us roughly what you have got. A photo from your phone is usually enough for us to say whether it is worth bringing in and what to expect.
- 02
Bring it to the yard
Drive it into the Braybrook yard Monday to Saturday, or at another time by arrangement. Any amount, and no appointment. Factories and industrial sites can book a pickup instead.
- 03
Weighed in front of you
Your load goes on the scales while you watch. You see the reading and you get the docket. Nothing is weighed out the back where you cannot see it.
- 04
Paid on the spot
Sorted the moment the weight is agreed. You are not waiting on an invoice and you are not chasing anybody next week.
Three ways to sell
However much you have got, there is a way to move it.
Drop off at the yard
Pull in, get weighed, get paid. No appointment and no minimum. We are open until 6:30pm on weekdays and 5pm on Saturday, and after hours by arrangement.
- No minimum quantity
- Weighed while you watch
- Paid before you leave
Industrial pickup
For factories and industrial sites across Greater Melbourne. Tell us what the site produces and roughly how much, and we will bring the right truck.
- Factories and industrial sites
- Right truck for the load
- Paid on collection
Bins for bigger jobs
Scrap bins dropped on site for jobs over a tonne. Factories, demolition, construction and site clearance. We swap them out as they fill.
- For loads over 1 tonne
- Swapped as they fill
- Ongoing contracts welcome
Weighing and payment
You watch the scales. That is the whole policy.
The single most common worry people have about selling scrap is that the weight will not be right and there is no way to check. So we took the question off the table.
- Your load is weighed where you can see it. Nothing goes out the back and comes back with a number on it.
- You get a docket with the weight on it. Written down, in your hand, before anything is settled.
- Grades are shown to you, not just quoted. If your copper is two different grades we will separate it in front of you and explain why.
- Payment is settled on the spot. Once the weight is agreed, that is it. No invoice, no waiting.
- 5+
- Years in the trade
- 4,000+
- Tonnes recycled each year
- 50
- Trucks and bins on the road
- 150+
- Collections a week
Reviews
What people actually say.
Every one of these is a real review on our Google profile, word for word. Click any of them and check.
See all reviews on Google- Tom Ison
Read Tom Ison's review on GoogleDawood is one of the nicest lads you’ll meet. Clearly communicated on the phone and was a pleasure to deal with. Had to get rid of these wheels asap and he took care of me with a fair payment.
Would highly recommend his service, easy and straightforward.
- Ben Salads
Read Ben Salads's review on GoogleGood experience, good customers service, best prices for scrap coppers in Melbourne. On the spot payments.
Good people
- Luc Tran
Read Luc Tran's review on GoogleGreat service, fast service, no issues, good pricing, They paid instantly and much better rate than other metal recyclers yard across Melbourne,
- Nathan Barca
Read Nathan Barca's review on GoogleWas looking for a scrap metal place and couldn’t find one that dealt with small amounts, Dawood from Metalplus was very quick honest and helpful, i am definitely coming back.
- Syafiq Azroy
Read Syafiq Azroy's review on GoogleI recently had an old accident-damaged car that I needed to get rid of while I was in Bendigo. After searching on Google, I found MetalPlus in Melbourne, and I’m really glad I chose them.
The whole process was smooth and hassle-free. They were professional, easy to deal with, and offered me a fair price for my car. When I dropped the car off, everything was handled quickly, and I received my payment without any issues.
I’m very happy with the service I received and would definitely recommend MetalPlus to anyone looking to sell a scrap or unwanted car. Great experience overall!
- Joseph Robinson
Read Joseph Robinson's review on GoogleGreat service, best copper price in the market Dawood helped heaps Will be back
- Max Bruton
Read Max Bruton's review on GoogleGreat service, great prices with reliability and easy to work with attitude. Will definitely be back for future business.
- Arthur Lamaris
Read Arthur Lamaris's review on GoogleGreat service. Efficient and payment received on the spot. Couldn’t recommend higher.
- Mark Killmister
Read Mark Killmister's review on GoogleFriendly staff extremely helpful good money paid for Scrap!!! highly recommend
- Benji Hibberd
Read Benji Hibberd's review on GoogleVery good service top bloke looks after his customers great experience
Been in and had a good run? A review takes a minute and it genuinely helps. Leave one here, or just ring 0452 220 422.
Where we go
Fabrication, engineering and freight, at scale.
The northern industrial belt through Campbellfield, Thomastown, Somerton and Broadmeadows is one of the densest concentrations of metal fabrication and engineering in Victoria. Sheet metal shops, structural fabricators, machining, powder coating, food processing plant and transport depots, most of them producing steel and aluminium scrap as a by-product of every working day.
Around Tullamarine the character changes to airport freight and logistics: warehousing, racking, air cargo handling and the maintenance operations that go with them. Heidelberg West and Preston carry an older light-industrial mix that still turns over a lot of machinery.
Closer in, Coburg, Brunswick East, Preston and Reservoir are largely residential and renovating hard, which produces the same copper and cable story as the inner suburbs but with somewhere to park. Further out, Greenvale, Mickleham and Kalkallo are new estates still going up, and Eltham, Diamond Creek and Hurstbridge are established bush suburbs on big blocks.
Suburbs we cover in the northern suburbs
- Coburg
- Brunswick East
- Pascoe Vale
- Glenroy
- Fawkner
- Preston
- Reservoir
- Thomastown
- Lalor
- Epping
- Campbellfield
- Somerton
- Broadmeadows
- Craigieburn
- Roxburgh Park
- Bundoora
- Heidelberg
- Heidelberg West
- Essendon
- Airport West
- Tullamarine
- Niddrie
- Coolaroo
- Greensborough
- Greenvale
- Mickleham
- Kalkallo
- Eltham
- Diamond Creek
- Hurstbridge
- Coburg North
- Essendon North
- Mill Park
- Kingsbury
- and the rest of the northern suburbs
Somewhere else in Melbourne?
Questions
Scrap metal questions from the northern suburbs.
The ones we get asked most from this part of Melbourne.
Call 0452 220 422Do you actually come out to Campbellfield and Somerton?
Yes, regularly. It is a straight run on the ring road from Braybrook and the northern estates are a normal part of the week rather than an exception we make.
Do you pick up from houses up north?
No. Pickup is for factories and industrial sites, which is most of what we collect up here anyway. From a house in Coburg, Preston or Reservoir, bring it to the yard: it is round the ring road, and there is no minimum at the gate.
Can we have a bin on site instead of booking pickups?
That is usually the right answer for a shop producing scrap every day. The bin sits there, fills at your pace, and we swap it. Ring us with the metal and the room you have got and we will tell you what fits.
We have got mixed grades. Do we need to sort it first?
No. Sorted is worth more per kilo because somebody has to do it either way, so if it is easy for you it is worth doing. If it is not, bring it mixed and we will sort and grade it here where you can watch.
Can I get cash for scrap metal in the northern suburbs?
You are paid on the spot when the weight is agreed, at the yard or on collection from a factory. That is what most people searching for cash for scrap are after. How a scrap metal dealer in Victoria may pay is set by law, the same for every yard, and our page on the law sets it out.
What are scrap metal prices like for factories in the north?
Set the same way as for anyone: by the metal, its grade, how clean it is and the weight, at the prices per kg we publish. Where a factory can move the number is sorting. Clean stainless kept apart from mild steel, and aluminium apart from both, each go at their own grade rather than being averaged down.
Got metal sitting there doing nothing?
Ring us and we will tell you what it is worth and whether it is worth bringing in. Takes two minutes and it costs you nothing to ask.