Product Of The Week – Computer Console Circuit Boards
February 20, 2012
X Box Circuit Board
AWA Refiners Ltd are buyers of computer console circuit boards including:
X Box circuit boards (PCB’s)
Playstation circuit boards (PCB’s)
and any other circuit boards from electronic equipment.
Playstation Circuit Board
AWA Refiners will value and offer competitive rates for scrap printed circuit boards, in order to recycle or refine them for any precious metals they may contain.
Scrap gold can be found in many different printed circuit boards and integrated circuits.
TEL: 01279 423743
Posted in News and Information | Leave a commentRecycling Hard Drives – Full Destruction Service
February 15, 2012
What is a Hard Drive?
A hard disk drive (HDD; also hard drive, hard disk, or disk drive) is a device for storing and retrieving digital information, primarily computer data.
It consists of one or more rigid (hence “hard”) rapidly rotating discs (often referred to as platters), coated with magnetic material and with magnetic heads arranged to write data to the surfaces and read it from them.
Why do hard drives need to be destroyed securely?
Hard drives contain all of the key data of a computer system. Many companies have information stored on their systems which is secure data and they must have proof that the data is destroyed and not going to get into anyone elses hands.
Hard drives can be wiped using certain software, but there is no better assurance than having the drive physically shredded into tiny pieces giving you complete piece of mind that the data is destroyed.
AWA Refiners Hard Drive Destruction
At AWA we offer a complete service to destroy your hard drives. All drives are shredded and once this is complete we can offer a certificate of destruction to show that the work has been completed.
Once the drives are shredded they are then sent for recycling. The precious metals are extracted from the plastics and all materials are then recycled with 0% going to landfill.
Payment
Not only do AWA Refiners offer a complete destruction of your hard drives; but as we are one of the leading precious metal refiners in the Uk we also offer you a payment for your drives.
Hard drives contain printed circuit boards which are rich in gold, silver, palladium and copper. Although the boards are shredded we can still extract the precious metals enabling us to offer you a good price for your hard drives.
A lot of companies charge to destroy hard drives – AWA pay for your scrap hard drives!!
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AWA Website Flourishes – Most EVER Visits!
February 14, 2012January 2012 has started with a *BANG!* for AWA Refiners Ltd.
The website has just had it highest ever visits in history with over 1500 people enjoying the look of our fantastic NEW website.
The website now includes full details of the materials that we process with complex sections on precious metal refining, computer board recycling, solder smelting, and the purchasing of high value metals.
We also have a company profile page dedicated to the history of the company along with photographs of the team giving it a personal feel.
Blog
Our weekly blog gives infomation on the metals that we purchase, current market prices and any news updates in the trade; giving an all round information centre for new and existing customers.
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Most Popular Product Delivered In Jan – Expansion Cards
February 7, 2012Expansions Cards
The expansion card (also expansion board, adapter card or accessory card) in computing is a printed circuit board that can be inserted into an expansion slot of a computer motherboard to add functionality to a computer system.
Graphics Card
Graphics Card
One edge of the expansion card holds the contacts (the edge connector) that fit exactly into the slot. They establish the electrical contact between the electronics (mostly integrated circuits) on the card and on the motherboard.
Connectors mounted on the bracket allow the connection of external devices to the card. Around one to seven expansion cards can be added to a computer system. 19 or more expansion cards can be installed in backplane systems.
The primary purpose of an expansion card is to provide or expand on features not offered by the motherboard.
- Up Stat!
Statistics On The Up!
AWA Refiners Ltd has processed a record tonnage of expansion cards throughout the month of January increasing our intake of PCB’s up to our highest ever statistics.
Top Prices Paid For Motherboards & Cards
For up to date prices on cards:
- Graphics Cards
- PCI Cards
- Sound Cards
- Video Cards
Call the AWA buying team on TEL: 01279 423743
Posted in News and Information | Leave a commentProduct Of The Week – Scrap Computer Boards (Motherboards)
February 6, 2012What Is A Motherboard?
In personal computers, a motherboard is the central printed circuit board (PCB) and holds many of the crucial components of the system. The motherboard is sometimes alternatively known as the mainboard, system board, or, on Apple computers, the logic board. It is also sometimes casually shortened to mobo.
History
Prior to the arrival of the microprocessor, a computer was usually built in a card-cage case or mainframe with components connected by a backplane consisting of a set of slots themselves connected with wires; in very old designs the wires were discrete connections between card connector pins, but printed circuit boards soon became the standard practice.
The Central Processing Unit, memory and peripherals were housed on individual printed circuit boards which plugged into the backplate. In the late 1980s, motherboards began to include single ICs (called Super I/O chips) capable of supporting a set of low-speed peripherals: keyboard, mouse, floppy disk drive, serial ports, and parallel ports. As of the late 1990s, many personal computer motherboards supported a full range of audio, video, storage, and networking functions without the need for any expansion cards at all; higher-end systems for 3D gaming and computer graphics typically retained only the graphics card as a separate component.
Recycling Of Scrap Motherboards
AWA Laboratory
AWA Refiners will value and offer competitive rates for unused or scrap computer boards, in order to recycle or refine them for any precious metals they may contain.
Scrap gold, silver, palladium and copper can be found in motherboards. Gold is an excellent conductor of electricity and highly resistant to corrosion, which makes it an attractive proposition for manufacturers to use in contact points within small computer chips.
What Do We Look For?
Using the latest technology, our technicians will strip the boards of any components that have metallic properties present in our controlled laboratory environment. Examples of computer board scrap, and their materials, include:
- Integrated circuits that contain gold
- Re-useable circuits that can be re-distributed
- Gold-plated plugs or connectors that may be refined
- Other substrates that contain precious metals that can be treated as a payable material
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Edge connectors that can be chemically refined.
Leading Buyers Of Scrap Computer Motherboards
AWA Refiners Ltd are one of the leading buyers of scrap computer boards in the Uk. We pride ourselves on customer service and swift payment which ensures our customers return year in year out.
For up to date prices on scrap motherboards please contact our buying team on:
Tel: 01279 423743
Posted in News and Information | Leave a commentTin Market Returns to £14,000 per ton on LME
January 19, 2012LME Tin back to over £14,000 per ton
Morning figures show the tin market has increased once again to over £14,000 per metric ton. This is a vast improvement on the £12,000 LME just 4 weeks ago.
Tin is used in many different alloys such as:
Solder joints, whitemetals, drosses, pastes, typemetal, hollow/counter pewter, tinmans solder, plumbers solder, 60/40, 63/37.
AWA Refiners are leading buyers of tin/lead alloys. Please contact our buying department today for competitive prices.
Tel: 01279 423743
Metal Of The Week – Pewter
January 17, 2012Pewter:
a malleable metal alloy, traditionally 85–99% tin, with the remainder consisting of copper, antimony, bismuth and lead.
Pewter Mug
Copper and antimony act as hardeners while lead is common in the lower grades of pewter, which have a bluish tint. It has a low melting point, around 170–230 °C (338–446°F), depending on the exact mixture of metals.
The word pewter is probably a variation of the word spelter, a colloquial name for zinc.
History
Pewter was first used around the beginning of the Bronze Age in the Near East. The earliest piece of pewter found is from an Egyptian tomb from 1450 BC.
Pewter Figure
Scrap Pewter
Pewter Figure
AWA purchase scrap pewter in various forms. Hollow pewter is the most common, consisting of jugs, bowls, plates and ornaments which we smelt into large ingots for recycling back into the industry.
Counter pewter is also common at AWA Refiners. This pewter was used in manufacturing bar counter tops. A lot of bars are now replacing these with more modern style materials therefore creating scrap counter pewter for smelting.
Buyers of Pewter.
AWA Refiners are leading buyers of pewter. For up to date prices please contact our traders on Tel: 01279 423743
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New Year Starts With A Bang As Gold & Silver Markets Rise Once Again
January 6, 20122012 has begun with a bang as the precious metal markets begin to rise once again after their dip at the back end of December.
Spot gold hit a fresh two week high at $1625.30 per t/oz today making the price of printed circuit boards set to increase once again as we head into the second week of January.
Silver is also holding steady at a price of $28.18 per t/oz which is an improvement on the $26 per t/oz that it hit on the 29th Dec 2011.
Buyers of gold and silver
For latest prices on gold & silver please contact the AWA Traders on:
01279 423743
Posted in News and Information | Leave a commentMetal Of The Week: Inconel
January 6, 2012
- X-15 Aircraft made using Inconel
Inconel
Refers to a family of austenitic nickel-chromium-based superalloys which are typically used in high temperature applications.
It is often referred to in English as “Inco”. Common trade names for Inconel include: Inconel 625, Chronin 625, Altemp 625, Haynes 625, Nickelvac 625 and Nicrofer 6020.[2]
F1 Engine (made using Inconel)
Inconel is often encountered in extreme environments. It is common in gas turbine blades, seals, and combustors, as well as turbocharger rotors and seals, high temperature fasteners, chemical processing and pressure vessels, heat exchanger tubing, firearm sound suppressor blast baffles, and in Formula One racing.
Famous Inconel Constructions:
North American Aviation constructed the skin of the X-15 rocket
McLaren Supercar (Exhaust System made using Inco)
plane out of an Inconel alloy known as “Inconel X”.
Rocketdyne used Inconel X-750 for the thrust chamber of the F-1 rocket engine used in the first stage of the Saturn V Booster.
McLaren used Inconel for the lightweight Sport Exhaust of a recent supercar, the McLaren MP4-12C.
A.W.A Refiners are buyers of Inconel in all physical forms and alloys.
Call the A.W.A buying team on 01279 423743 for today’s price on Inconel .
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AWA Refiners Ltd – Precious Metal Refiners 20th Anniversary
December 14, 2011This year AWA Refiners Ltd are celebrating 20 Years as precious metal refiners.
2011 has been a great year to celebrate for AWA.
We are pleased to announce our company statistics for 2011 are in an affluence trend, with our highest ever statistic so far in the amount of circuit boards processed per annum.
In 2011 AWA have gone above all records in the companies history on the tonnage of computer boards processed and refined, beating all other years of trading.
*NEW LABORATORY FOR 2011*
AWA has also expanded into 2011 by building a *brand new* on site laboratory where we fully test, refine and analyse all precious metals.
Refining of precious metals is something AWA pride themselves in and have enjoyed over the last 20 years. The team are looking forward to expanding and improving our precious metal refining further into the next 20 years.
