Doctor Scrap reports widespread app adoption

Doctor Scrap, a metals identification app offered by an Arcadia, California-based company with the same name, has gained new and steady customer use in the U.S. and overseas markets, including the Middle East and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region, according to the firm.

The company describes its Doctor Scrap app as a price estimation and global trading platform and as “a highly effective technological app that aims to assist businesses in the recycling industry.”

“Our busiest countries and regions are the U.S., the Middle East and Southeast Asia,” Doctor Scrap CEO Thomas Tan tells Recycling Today.

According to Tan, recycled metal buyers and sellers in those regions most commonly are trading grades of aluminum, lead, copper, brass and shredded metals and using the Doctor Scrap app.

Traders of those secondary commodities have used Doctor Scrap to help buy, sell or ship more than 17,200 tons of metal in each of those five categories, according to data collected by the company, with aluminum having cleared the 30,000 tons threshold.

Tan says the app’s customer base includes several high-volume traders, processors and consumers of recycled metal, including Texas-based C&Y Global, India-based Jain Metals, Carbondale, Illinois-based shredding plant operator Cimco Resources, and Italy-based Zoffoli Metalli Srl.

“We are keen on working with more clients at every corner of the world, especially Europe, North America and South America," Tan says, adding that the firm also considers itself open to investors who show interest in the company’s app and its capabilities.

Doctor Scrap also offers the Scrap Science app, which it describes as “a practical, mobile-first alternative” to existing material identification methods such as X-ray fluorescence analyzers.

App users can get scrap grade identification assistance by taking a photo and then receiving instant results.