Scrap Metal Recycling Sign Printing in Manchester

In engineering and construction, metal waste is constant: offcuts, old brackets, cable trays, damaged racking. Kept separate, it is worth something. Mixed into a general skip, it adds weight to a bill.

An Irlam engineering yard, Greater Manchester

Think of a steel fabrication firm in Irlam with a yard full of skips: general, timber, metal. Lads come out with armfuls of offcuts and drop them in the closest skip. A big, clear sign over the metal skip, visible from the fabrication bay door, saves the walk of shame back to fish things out.

The mistake is fixing the sign to the skip. Skips get swapped every week or two and the sign goes with the old one. Mount it on a post, fence or wall behind the bay instead, high enough to show over the skip's lip.

If you separate ferrous and non-ferrous metals, label each bay separately; add the detail through typesetting for £15. Your scrap merchant decides what goes where. A person checks each file before print.

Board and size

Yards are outdoors and rough, so Dibond is the board: tough, rigid and fine for years. Foamex works inside a workshop on a swarf bin wall. Vinyl suits a smooth container. A2 reads from roughly 17 m across a yard; A3, about 12 m, suits a workshop. Prices start at £26.82.

Production takes 5 working days, then a tracked courier usually needs 1 to 3 working days. Delivery is £7.95 per order, free for goods over £100. Trade accounts get 5 % off the first order. See recycling signs, then choose your size.

We are a Manchester printer with customers all over the UK. Delivery covers Manchester and its suburbs, Trafford Park among them, and the rest of the mainland, and local customers can collect from our Manchester office when the order is ready.