H.Ripley & Co is one of the UK’s leading scrap metal processers and exporters. A highly respected fourth-generation family business, we now have five UK sites located at Hailsham, Hastings and Newhaven in East Sussex as well as two at Ashford in Kent.Our success is based on a highly professional, innovative and customer-focused approach. We are totally committed to meeting the individual metal recycling requirements of UK and international customers in terms of both quality and price - and employ the very latest technology to do so.

We accept scrap metal and materials from everyone from householders to large multi-national companies. Then, after processing and recycling them, we sell the resulting high-grade products to the world’s largest metal refiners in the UK, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, India and the Far East, amongst other locations.Through our company Ripley Auto Spares Limited we also salvage and dismantle vehicles for garages, local authorities, insurance companies and members of the public, as well as providing quality parts.

• Steelworks
• Smelters
• Copper and aluminium refiners

Our reputation, built over a number of years, rests on a total commitment to providing products of consistently high quality. It is the kind of quality we believe is unsurpassed within the industry.Integrity and transparency are also key elements of our service. As we always supply our products directly to end users such as steelworks, refineries and smelters, the prices we quote are never artificially inflated by ‘middle men.

• Articulated bulk tippers
• Rolonof trucks
• Skip trucks
• Crane dropside trucks
• Recovery trucks

We work closely with sub-contractors to transport material in specialist situations.In addition, we collect reusable material in containers throughout South East England.