Agricultural equipment works hard and wears out on its own schedule. When machinery is taken out of service or components are pulled during repair, the resulting scrap tends to be a mix of metal and rubber that has been bonded together through years of use and, in many cases, through the original manufacturing process itself.
Rubber bonded bushings, vibration isolating mounts, and rubber to metal components are common throughout tractors, combines, and processing equipment. These parts are designed to hold together under significant stress, which means they do not simply come apart when the equipment reaches end of life. Standard scrap processing either discards these components entirely or blends them into low-grade shred, losing the metal value in the process.
PolyMet Recovery debonds and denudes rubber from metal components, recovering the underlying metal cleanly and settling based on its actual composition rather than a bulk mixed rate. For agricultural operations generating these materials through regular maintenance and equipment turnover, a structured collection program with PolyMet converts what would otherwise be a disposal problem into a straightforward revenue stream. We handle the material complexity, so your operation does not have to.
