Sims Precious Metals | industry-certified

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A Business of Sims Limited

As a business of Sims Limited, a $4 billion publicly traded company, our customers trust us to process their materials.

Sims Limited has over a 100 year proven track record and payment history, operating through many boom and bust cycles. Through economic highs and lows and commodity metal fluctuations, we have the financial stability and heft to withstand dramatic changes in the market and continue to pay our customers quickly and consistently.

Customers trust us to manage their high value waste streams:

Professional management team and corporate structure
Corporate governance, prudent risk management
Strong credit, global relationships
Independent audits of financial transactions to ensure compliance
Audited precious metal settlement reports
Rigorous financial controls

Nine Ways We Earn Customer Confidence and Trust

When working with a new customer, we want to understand your unique production environment. Seeing your production environment from a Sims Precious Metals (SPM) perspective will many times spark ideas on how we can work effectively and efficiently with your company. A review of your service history and individual material streams uncovers opportunities for tailoring a recovery program that focuses on maximizing value recovery and providing a consistent and convenient service. Once we understand your unique program, we will work with you to determine the best approach in managing your materials. From the start, you will find SPM to be a reliable, professional partner able to meet your complex refining needs.

We give our customers options and flexibility in developing the right program for their unique materials. Our resourceful internal material handlers and laboratory technicians help determine material composition and how to extract maximum value based on how we process it.

Our in-house assay lab processes samples from customers’ materials to determine precious metal percentages. Accurate sampling and lab processing is an important step. What you get paid is directly tied to our ability to effectively evaluate and process material. Our in-house lab offers fast turn-around times, allowing SPM to provide quick financial settlements for our customers. We offer fire assays, typically available only through smelters. Fire assays allow us to accurately measure even the smallest amounts of precious metal content.

We broker large volumes of recovered metal and have relationships with global smelters, enabling us to offer our customers the best possible value for their material.

Sims Precious Metals (SPM) is a business division of Sims Limited. Sims Limited offers the financial strength and stability you require with a variety of payment options. With an active client base of over 500 accounts, generators of precious metals scrap across the globe entrust the value recovery and payment of their precious metal assets to Sims. When a refinery is managing material of value, it’s always advised to work with a vendor who can be flexible in how they return the value to their customers. Flexibility with financial settlements including refining terms, “per pound” purchases, pool accounts, transfers to fabricators or banks is always useful especially when you’re dealing with materials of concern.

Our customer-centered approach includes a deep-rooted commitment to safety and quality control. Your business solutions advisor will help monitor your programs’ progress, periodically review recovery strategies and maintain an ongoing commitment to your recovery goals. Sims’ advisors aim to deliver a consistent service to ensure we are helping you in managing your program.

Our customers benefit from wide coverage, efficient transport and a comprehensive logistics network. We offer transportation services for hazardous and non-hazardous material streams. We use DOT and EPA permitted haulers when moving hazardous materials.

Full service processor and EPA permitted refiner offering multiple recovery methods to maximize value from your manufacturing and waste streams. Companies trust us to handle material with proper environmental and theft protection measure We are permitted to handle and properly dispose of hazardous wastes. R2 – ISO 14001 – ISO 45001 – ISO 9001 – ITAR registered

As part of a final selection process, we encourage prospective clients to tour our facility. A plant tour reveals our resourcefulness in extracting value from customer material and our adherence to best environmental and safety practices.

Inspect how we do things and the multiple solutions we offer to handle most material streams
Review how mass balance reporting can be used to verify accurate material volumes and payments
Tour our laboratory and view first-hand the commitment to quality and accuracy
View firsthand our commitment to safety, environmental compliance and service excellence