Industrial Surplus, Inc. is one of the best recovery companies in the nation. They buy surplus equipment, inventory, and scrap metals from companies with excess products who wish to eliminate their outdated or unusable materials to a company who will resell or recycle them. Many of these products cannot simply be thrown away because of harmful components and must be disposed of in a particular way. Industrial Surplus will send purchasing agents to businesses in Boston, MA to assess their materials and then make an offer to purchase the goods. This is a great benefit of recovery companies because the organization selling the products does not have to organize the sale themselves or work with several different buyers for separate products.

Industrial Surplus specializes in several different recovery processes including x-ray film recycling, buying and recycling NDT film (non destructive film), recycling dental x-ray film, and performing silver recovery from x-ray film. A silver recycler can extract silver or silver powder from products that would otherwise be unsafely and needlessly thrown away, causing environmental problems and wasting valuable resources. NDT film, dental x-ray film and many other products contain trace amounts of silver powder that can be made into raw silver and sold to silver venders. This makes x-ray film recycling a very useful and profitable business practice and a standard among recovery companies.

Companies choose to use Industrial Surplus for their x-ray recycling because of their expert knowledge and reputation as a silver recycler. Silver recovery from x-ray film is a complicated process that involves grinding the x-rays, washing the ground up film, rinsing and separating the plastic from the emulsified silver, and smelting the silver cake from the xray film to extract silver ash powder. Samples of the materials are put through lab analysis for record keeping and to compare to other samples for discrepancies.

In addition to x-ray recycling, customers can look to Industrial Surplus to sell other scrap metals such as aluminum, copper, nickel, and titanium. Companies in Boston can also offload old manufacturing equipment, mining equipment, electrical parts, pulp and paper mill equipment, generators, or aviation parts to Industrial Surplus.