Our customers profit from the ability of International's extensive worldwide purchasing offices to buy and sell scrap and scrap substitutes at competitive prices. In addition to ferrous and nonferrous scrap, we buy and sell iron ore, coke, and such scrap-related commodities as pig iron, hot briquetted Iron, direct reduced iron and other steel making by-products. Financially strong, we broker more than one million tons of scrap metal per month.

Our knowledgeable traders maintain relationships and use cutting-edge technology to gain access to real-time market information around the globe, including vessel movements, currency values, latest transactions and freight rates. Aggressive, persistent, flexible and innovative, our traders make personal evaluations that allow us to match the highest quality and least costly materials to customers' needs. The result is a procurement system that provides customers with the best possible economic results.