No price discovery.
One buyer's offer, unchallenged for years, reported as a single monthly figure with no tonnage or alloy detail.
Lower costs with verified secondary materials, sourced and blended to spec.
Outlast runs the whole operation end to end: supplier sourcing, chemistry verification, blend design, upgrading, and logistics, so you get material that meets your spec at a price the open market can't quote you.
- Market-wide supplier network
- Blend optimization
- Chemistry verification
- Material upgrading to spec
- Managed inbound logistics
the problem
Your input costs move with a market you do not control
three pains:
No operational visibility.
Material leaves the site and the paper trail stops; nobody can answer what happened to it or what it was worth.
No leverage.
A single relationship, renegotiated rarely, against a market that moves weekly.
the solution
We turn secondary materials into a dependable, lower-cost input
We survey the buyer base for your chemistry and volume profile, then route each load to the highest-value qualified outlet rather than the nearest one.
Pricing runs against a published index with the margin share stated on every settlement, so what we make on your material is never a question you have to ask.
Weight tickets, assay results and chain-of-custody documents per container, retained and exportable whenever someone asks you to prove it.
The sort happens where material is already handled. We take over scheduling and placement, and the plant floor generally changes nothing.
Containers, carriers and scheduling are ours to run end to end, including the export paperwork when the outlet that pays most is overseas.
how it works
Survey
We sample across a full production cycle and profile the material by grade, form and contamination.
Place
Transparent cost-plus pricing against a published index, with the margin share stated on every settlement.
Prove
Weight tickets and assay results per container, retained and exportable for audit.
case study
$6.9 million in documented savings for a high-volume aluminum casting facility
The facility needed reliable, cost-efficient secondary metals. Outlast built the sourcing, testing, blending, warehousing, and logistics operation under a success-fee-aligned contract.
highlights
Transparent reporting
on new and existing streams
Zero operational overhead
containerized shipping fully managed
Faster cash cycle
via consolidated reporting and payment
who is this for?
Manufacturers
Any plant producing a consistent drop as a by-product of what it already makes.
Multi-site operators
Standardize grades, specs and process across every location on one program.
Recyclers
Reach outlets that pay for the material you already handle, without adding headcount.
Packaging producers
Film, board and mixed packaging streams that leave the site as a disposal cost today.
Facilities teams
One program, one contact and one settlement in place of a folder of regional haulers.
FAQs and common concerns
Good. We benchmark against them rather than replacing them, and you keep whichever performs.
Volume sets the route, not the eligibility. Smaller streams get consolidated with other sites onto the same containers.
Nothing changes where material is handled today. We take over scheduling, placement and paperwork, not your floor process.
Weight tickets, assay results and destination records are retained per container and exportable on demand.
The first placement usually runs inside a normal collection cycle; the benchmark against your current pricing lands with it.