John R. Adam and Sons Ltd

We operate a mobile car press which covers Scotland and the North of England. The car press will bale your scrap cars making transport more economical.

We collect and receive steel cans from a variety of councils and commercial suppliers throughout the country. These are then baled and exported for melting.

We buy and can collect all types of Ferrous Scrap including products, demolition and general scrap arising from a variety of processes.

Non Ferrous Scrap, including all types of non-ferrous metals, aluminium, copper and brass, which can all be collected by us from site.

We will buy all types of ferrous and non-ferrous scrap arisings. We handle large contracts negotiated annually and are always looking to increase our volumes. We will price  demolition contracts and also tender for on-going production factory contracts.

Our product

Our post processing material is suitable for shipment in bulk over our deep water berth, or by container to deep seas destinations.

The quality of our products is controlled by our Quality Management system ISO 9001:2008 and our Environmental System ISO 14001:2004.

Shredding

Our lynxs TMR 270 x 270 with its 4000HP main drive is capable of producing 500mt of shredded scrap in a 8 hour day. This is from a typical input of baled scrap and light iron.

Lefort Shear

Our mobile shear is remotely operated and processes oversize material of a structural nature and can produce over 100 tonnes per day.

Transport

Our modern fleet of vehicles includes articulated bulkers all with sleep cabs Rolonof skip lorries, general skip lorries and a flat bed tipper. All of our vehicles are fitted with a tracker system.

Baler

Our Birim Makena remotely operated baler process 4C bales and baled steel cans to size 400 x 400mm and variable.

Craneage

Our modern fleet of cranes in the yard support the production processes and the loading of ships and containers. These include tine grabs and electro magnets. We are capable of lifting 10 tonnes in a single lift.

ELV Depollutant Centre

Our ELV centre is built to depollute scrap vehicles of oils, fuels, batteries brake fluids etc. prior to the vehicle being shredded.