Ironcrest Industrial Surplus buys heavy copper cable, insulated wire, bus bar and electrical project surplus from sellers across Minnesota. Send photos for today’s price — we coordinate mail-in, freight and pickup from our Chicago-area base.
Electrical contractors in the Twin Cities, data center and low-voltage trades, plant and facilities teams, Iron Range mining operations, demolition crews, and industrial companies from Minneapolis and St. Paul to Rochester, Duluth and Bloomington.
Clear photos of the material, jacket or insulation markings, conductor size or gauge, estimated weight or footage, and your Minnesota city. For new or partial reels, include photos of the reel tags and labels.
Ironcrest is based in Rolling Meadows, Illinois, and purchases copper wire and cable from sellers throughout Minnesota — no Chicago trip required. Every lot starts with photos: jacket markings, conductor size, estimated weight or footage, and your city. We price against current market conditions rather than posting public per-pound prices.
Photograph the cable ends, jacket printing, reel tags and any labels. Note the conductor size, whether the copper is insulated, tinned or armored, and whether grades are mixed. A tape measure or pallet for scale speeds up the first review.
Palletized wire, full or partial reels, bus bar and demolition takeouts can move by freight from anywhere in Minnesota. Send pallet counts, reel sizes, access and loading details, and your city so freight can be quoted and scheduled.
Smaller sorted lots — bare bright, #1 copper, clean insulated wire — can ship to us by mail or parcel. Weigh the material, separate the grades, and send photos first so we confirm what to expect before you ship anything.
The Minneapolis–St. Paul metro and suburbs like Bloomington generate a steady stream of copper: commercial build-outs and remodels, data center construction, multifamily electrical work and plant maintenance. Typical material includes feeder cable, THHN and XHHW pulls, contractor leftovers and partial reels that never made it back to the distributor.
Rochester’s medical device manufacturing and hospital expansion work produces clean, well-documented takeouts — often new or like-new wire with intact labels. Keep reel tags and packaging with the material; labeled surplus is easier to identify and may carry value beyond scrap.
Duluth’s port and industrial corridor and the Iron Range mining operations replace heavy power cable on maintenance cycles. Mining cable runs large and armored, so send photos of the jacket printing, armor type and cut ends to identify it correctly before anyone pays freight.
Separate what you can. Bare bright, #1 and #2 copper, insulated THHN, Romex and bus bar each price differently, and mixed loads get priced at the lowest grade in the mix. Photograph cut ends and jacket markings, note the gauge, and give estimated weight or footage per grade. Keep aluminum and steel-armored cable out of the copper lots.
Selling more than copper in Minnesota? We also buy carbide scrap and electrical equipment from Minnesota sellers. Our hub pages cover copper, carbide and electrical buying in full.
We evaluate insulated copper wire, power and feeder cable, THHN and building wire, Romex, copper bus bar, bus duct, communication cable and contractor surplus from anywhere in Minnesota. Send clear photos, jacket markings, conductor size or gauge when known, and the approximate weight or footage.
Send photos, the material type, estimated weight or footage, and your Minnesota city to [email protected] or call 312-880-8174. Each lot is priced from current market conditions and its recoverable or resale value, so public per-pound prices are not posted.
The same as anywhere in the state: photos and details first, then we settle logistics. Larger lots — pallets, reels, mining cable — move by coordinated freight. Smaller clean lots can go by mail or parcel. For genuinely large opportunities we discuss pickup coordination.
Yes. New, unused and partial reels may be worth more than scrap value. Send photos of the reel tags, manufacturer, conductor size, remaining length, voltage rating and storage condition so the right resale outlet can be reviewed.
No — sell insulated wire as it is. Stripping rarely pays once labor is counted, and jacket markings help identify the wire. Just keep grades separated: bare bright, #1, #2, insulated and aluminum cable each price differently.
Have copper wire, cable, or bus bar to sell in Minnesota? Send photos, quantity, jacket or reel details, and your city to [email protected] or call 312-880-8174 for today’s price.
Industrial equipment can be worth more intact than as scrap. Clear photos and nameplates help determine whether resale, component recovery or commodity recovery is the best path.
Photograph the material, nameplates and quantity, then send them through the quote form, by email or by phone.
We review what the material is, its condition and quantity, and whether it fits a direct purchase.
For qualifying material, we discuss a direct purchase offer and the next steps.