Scranton, PA · Electrical Wire And Cable Buyers
Scranton, PA Electrical Wire and Cable Buyers
Scranton facility and construction teams call us when equipment is coming out and nobody wants to coordinate an electrician, a rigger and a hauler around one outage window. We are all three, and we pay you for the equipment on top of it instead of charging you to haul it away.
Same-day written offer
Get a Written Offer
Send the asset list, or just describe what is in the room. We come back the same business day with a written, itemized offer.
Faster: call 954-740-1983
Email an asset list to electricalequipmentbuyers@gmail.com
Mon–Sat, 7am–7pm ET. We never resell your contact information.
- Location
- Scranton, PA
- Desk
- Electrical Wire and Cable Buyers
- Ratings
- #12 AWG – 1,000 MCM, copper and alumin
- Offer
- Same business day
- Payment
- Before load-out
- Phone
- 954-740-1983
This city
Wire and Cable buyers serving Scranton
We treat Pennsylvania as a single service area instead of a list of towns. That is why a single item in Scranton is still worth quoting — it gets added to an existing run between Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Allentown, Erie and Scranton rather than priced as a dedicated trip.
Documentation travels with the job: a certificate of insurance naming your entity, a W-9, a signed purchase agreement itemizing each asset and its price, oil or PCB manifests where applicable, and weight tickets or a bill of lading for what leaves the Scranton site.
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Ratings | #12 AWG – 1,000 MCM, copper and aluminum |
| Scope | Feeder, MV shielded, tray, control, reels |
| Nameplates | Southwire, General Cable, Okonite, Kerite, Prysmian, Encore Wire, Cerro, Houston Wire and Cable, Belden |
| Condition | Working, retired, water-damaged or already dismantled |
| Minimum | One section, one unit, or a whole plant lot |
Equipment
What we take out of Scranton sites
Feeder and building wire
THHN, XHHW and RHW copper and aluminum feeders from #12 AWG through 1,000 MCM, single conductors and multi-conductor assemblies, in conduit or free-air. Recovered building wire is the highest-volume item in most plant electrical lots.
Medium-voltage and shielded cable
5 kV, 15 kV, 25 kV and 35 kV shielded power cable, EPR and XLPE insulated, tape and wire shielded, single conductor and triplexed. Long unspliced runs and full reels can resell as cable rather than as recovered copper, which is worth considerably more.
Pennsylvania specifics
Pennsylvania supplies the oldest and frequently the most valuable equipment we buy, because obsolete is not the same as worthless. The steel and coke legacy around Pittsburgh and up the Monongahela, the Lehigh Valley cement and steel corridor, and the anthracite-era industrial towns along I-81 left behind switchgear and busway from vintages nobody manufactures — which is exactly why plants still running that gear pay real money for sections and plugs. Philadelphia adds refinery and port infrastructure on the Delaware, a large hospital and university building stock, and mill buildings being converted throughout Kensington and Manayunk. Erie machinery, the natural-gas processing build-out across the northern tier, and continuous distribution replacement by PPL and Duquesne Light keep the flow steady. Pennsylvania is also where the Turnpike geography lets one crew work Pittsburgh and Philadelphia in the same week.
Nearby
Nearby and related
We cover Pennsylvania statewide, so if the equipment is not in Scranton itself, one of these is probably closer:
Common questions
Scranton questions
Do you actually buy electrical equipment in Scranton, or just broker it?
We buy it. Northeast Electrical Buyers is the purchaser of record — we fund the purchase, send our own crews to Scranton to disconnect and load, and take title when the equipment leaves your dock. There is no third party behind us waiting to approve the price.
What is the smallest job you will take in Scranton?
A single transformer, one switchgear section, a pallet of breakers or a few boxes of breakers is worth a call. Because we route crews across Pennsylvania continuously, small Scranton pickups usually get added to an existing run rather than priced as a dedicated trip.
How fast can you get to a Scranton site?
Written offers go out the same business day in nearly every case. After acceptance, typical mobilization to Scranton is a few business days for a straightforward removal and one to two weeks for a full plant scope that needs phasing, rigging plans or utility coordination.
Do we have to disconnect the equipment before you arrive?
No. We handle removal. Your electrician or the utility performs the final isolation and we verify it; from there our crews lock out, cut and cap cable at the gland, unbolt the sections, skate them out and load them. If the Scranton room is still partly live we phase the work.
How do you handle transformer oil in Scranton?
Oil is tested, drained and manifested through licensed handlers, and you receive the documentation with your paperwork. PCB-suspect units go under a separate waste profile. Nothing is left on your pad in Scranton and nothing gets dumped — the handling cost is already in the offer.
Wire and Cable in Scranton?
One call, one written offer, one crew. Payment before the trailer leaves.