The Recycling Process
There's a lot more to used auto parts than simply removing parts from wrecked vehicles.
Each vehicle makes several stops on its journey through the recycling process.
Most of our vehicles are delivered by auto carriers. After delivery, each vehicle is
thoroughly inspected, and all usable parts are checked and entered into our inventory system.
After this process is complete, these parts become available for you to search online.
Smaller parts may be removed from the vehicle while it is parked in our yard. When any
larger parts are ordered, or anything that may expose sensitive parts to the weather, the
vehicle is brought into our disassembly shop. At this time, the requested parts are removed,
as well as anything that will need to be stored indoors. Most vehicles have their engines
and transmissions removed during their first visit to the shop. The vehicle's fluids are drained
into special holding tanks for later recycling. All parts removed at this time
are then moved to one of our warehouses for protected storage.
After leaving the shop, the vehicle returns to the yard for further disassembly at a later time.
Once most of a vehicle's parts have been sold, it returns to the shop one last time. All remaining
parts are removed, and the vehicle's remains (now referred to as a hulk) are moved to a holding
area at the back of the yard.
Once a week, hulks are loaded onto a flatbed truck and taken to the local scrapper.
The scrap
materials are seperated and shredded into small pieces, and sent off to various production
plants. This scrap metal is melted down and used to build parts for nearly any product made of
metal, many times used to build new cars. The recycling process is now complete. Every single part
of each vehicle is reused- many parts go to customers like you, and anything not sold
is recycled into new goods that you and I use every day. Even the vehicle's fluids do not
go to waste- they are recycled into new fluid products important to many industries.
Phone:
Local: 304-739-2776
Nationwide: 877-739-2776