and then the kids get ice cream. But the most exciting thing for the kids isn’t the ice cream. “We pick one name out of a hat, and then that child gets to use the remote for the OverBuilt to crush a car,” says Twila. “They just go wild!”
MARKETS DETERMINE VOLUME
With respect to material volumes processed by Silver Creek Recycling in a given month, it varies. For example, they have one customer who sells them around 5,000 tons every two to three years. “He’ll stockpile it and he’ll call us when the price is good, then we go in there,” he says. “So our volume changes follow the market.” Bradyn says that lost global markets such as China have not affected their business because of their good relationships with their mills. “They keep us going through the good and the bad. “Usually January is a time of the year mills are starting to look for material. Otherwise, it changes all the time and every year is different.” Commodity prices currently are definitely month to month. “So that determines how much work we’re going to be doing. When it does come time, we have to be prepared to get in and get out.” “When the mill wants material, we have to be efficient and not waste time.” Silver Creek Recycling has three established mill buyers, all based in Canada. “We don’t source out different buyers every week or every month,” explains Danny Luba. “We have a good relationship with our buyers and we’re sort of a family, we stick together. They need us, we need them. “When we have a push, when our buyers tell us the market is going up, or it’s going down, that determines how much material we move. One example in our mobile business, in November, we had a short window and we pushed out 1,400-plus tons in 21 days. Then again in May we processed and shipped over 900 tons in just seven days.” “But if the market is down, like it is now, we start to pedal a little bit, and we’re stockpiling. We move 1,000 tons every month, or every week. “It all depends on the market.” RPN
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