Bargaining power of buyers

The buyers are the ones who will buy the recycled metals and materials on the international market against market prices. The number of buyers in relation to the number of sellers is high; this creates lots of opportunities for e-waste recycling companies. This is also because of the fact that the buyers are not national limited. Like is pronounced before, the target group is globally. So that means the number buyers is extremely high.

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For buyers of raw materials, the switching costs to other materials are high because they probably need to redesign the product and the production line in order to do so.

Buyers use every source they can find, as raw materials recycled from e-waste are rare and the demands are skyrocketing. But it must be said that for the buyers it doesn’t matter if there product is produced from a recycling process.

Most of time, buyers are metals companies. Indeed, these companies need a large quantity of raw materials for their activity. These Estonian ‘Recycleinme’ connected metal traders are listed below.

Baltmet Impex

Buyer of aluminum, battery scrap, brass scrap, copper, exotic metals, lead Scrap, zinc, scrap titanium, Baltmet Impex a global buyer and importer of scrap metal located in Tallinn, Estonia

Metallurg Engineering

Is a global buyer and importer of battery scrap, brass scrap, copper, electronic scrap, lead scrap, and all other kinds of scrap metal. Metallurg Engineering is located in Tallinn, Estonia.

MSH & Co Invest

MSH & Co Invest buys aluminum, battery scrap, brass scrap, copper, electronic scrap, lead scrap, scrap metal, and zinc scrap. MSH & Co is also a global buyer / importer located in Tallinn, Estonia.[2]