Price on Printed Wiring Boards falls
The gross value of printed wiring board scrap dropped in March to $3.99 per pound, a one-percent decrease from February's totals and the first dip in three months. Though the price drop from last month was miniscule, the fall from last year is still stunning — 20.7 percent lower than March 2008 figures.
This data represents the full metallic values of boards over time and are not the recycling values, as those values do not include the costs involved in actually extracting metal from boards, including freight, sampling charges, assay assessments, smelting, refining, process loss, return on investment, and penalties for various elements, including beryllium, bismuth and nickel.
These values are for the estimated intrinsic metal content of recovered PC boards. Some consumers label such material as mid-value. Lower-value scrap includes monitor and television boards. Higher-value scrap includes network and video cards, and motherboards
The year-to-date average value of board scrap for 2009 is $3.90 per pound, down 17.8 percent from the 2008 average.
Article originally posted by E-Scrap News