Jalna Scrap Rate Today — 16 September 2026

Start with the number that actually matters if you are standing in a yard in Jalna, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Beed, Parbhani, Latur, Nanded or Jalgaon this morning: iron punching scrap at ₹39,500/MT, confirmed directly with the mill. That single figure beats every other market in Maharashtra outright, before freight is even counted. The rest of this page breaks down every other grade, explains why the published HMS base index tells a different story to the mill card, and shows you exactly where sellers in this district lose money without realising it — mostly at the weighbridge, and mostly on a Friday afternoon.

A mill does not buy “Jalna scrap.” It buys named grades, and it pays a different price for each one. This is the actual purchase card, confirmed this morning — not an index, not an estimate.

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If your material doesn’t map neatly onto the mill’s own grade names, here’s the wider market by the standard industry grades most yards actually use. The spread from ₹24 to ₹40/kg is not sloppy reporting — it’s the real shape of this market. Factory-sourced industrial steel and household mixed iron sit at genuinely opposite ends of the curve, and figuring out exactly where your material lands is the difference between a good week and a wasted truck.

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Non-Ferrous Rates in the Jalna Corridor

Jalna is a ferrous town first, but plenty of sellers here are sitting on wiring, brackets and utensil lots pulled out of the same demolition or MIDC clearance. Do not let a buyer sweep those into an iron quote. These grades track the LME rather than local furnace demand, so they move on a completely different clock.

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Quick field test: run a magnet over anything you think might be stainless. If it doesn’t grab, that material is worth roughly three to four times what iron pays, and a buyer who quietly bundles it into a mixed ferrous load has just made his month at your expense. Non-ferrous ranges above are dealer-listing indications from the Jalna–Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar belt rather than a published mill index, so treat them as a floor for your negotiation and confirm on the day.

What Actually Moved This Month

Jalna spent most of June and the first half of July grinding lower. HMS 80:20 bottomed at ₹30,500/MT on 17 July while rain kept scrap arrivals thin and mills stayed on a part scrap, part sponge charge mix. Since then it has recovered to ₹32,900/MT, and the mill’s own punching grade has climbed further still to ₹39,500/MT. Several things are driving that, and each one matters differently depending on what you’re holding.

Zoom out from Jalna specifically and a bigger, well-sourced national story is playing out at the same time. Reuters-syndicated reporting carried by Business Recorder on 8 September described Indian steel prices set to rise further as post-monsoon infrastructure and automotive demand picks up, alongside higher coking coal costs raising what integrated mills pay to make virgin steel — which makes scrap comparatively more attractive. Kallanish has separately named firming freight costs, driven partly by crude oil near $97 a barrel, as a factor pushing Indian scrap prices up. And one market tracker, Price Watch, reported sponge iron nationally up around 12% month-on-month, billet up about 4%, and scrap itself rising close to ₹1,100 per tonne week-on-week — describing the move as broad-based rather than speculative. Jalna’s own rise got there first, for a local reason. The rest of the country now has four separate reasons of its own.

Here is the honest version most rate pages skip: on the plain HMS 80:20 base index, Jalna is not the highest bidder in Maharashtra. Pune quotes ₹33.57/kg and Mumbai ₹33.10/kg against Jalna’s ₹32.90/kg — a small gap, but a real one, and it runs against Jalna. What changes the picture is what the mill actually pays for named grades, and what freight and waiting time do to every one of those headline numbers once you account for them properly.

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Two things jump out, and they point in opposite directions. First, on base grades, Pune and Mumbai genuinely quote a shade above Jalna — no freight has been subtracted yet in that table. Second, Ludhiana and Mandi Gobindgarh quote higher again, but they are 1,600 km away, and freight plus a 30 to 60 day wait for payment erases that gap and then some — the same maths that governs the main hub’s city comparison applies here too. The number that actually matters for a Marathwada seller is what survives after freight and the wait, not the sticker price.

What you actually keep: Jalna punching vs a Pune MIDC sale

Run the numbers on the best possible Pune outcome — a clean, factory-direct MIDC lot at the very top of its range — and Jalna’s own mill card still wins once freight and a realistic payment wait are counted in.

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Jalna’s mill card now beats Pune’s best-case ceiling outright on a gross basis — ₹39,500/MT against Pune’s ₹39,000/MT. Once freight and the payment wait are counted, Jalna nets about ₹2,150/t more, or roughly ₹21,500 on a 10-tonne load — and that is before counting the two days you would otherwise spend chasing a Pune buyer for payment, or the 250 km round trip your truck doesn’t need to make. On base HMS 80:20 material, rather than the mill’s named grades, the picture is closer: Pune’s ₹33.57/kg headline against Jalna’s ₹32.90/kg is a real ₹0.67/kg gap, and freight of ₹0.90 to ₹1.30/kg eats it entirely — so on plain base-grade scrap, a local Jalna sale and a Pune sale come out roughly level once the truck is paid for, with Jalna winning on speed of payment either way.

Pune’s real structural advantage isn’t price — it’s density. More buyers compete for the same tonnage there, with several re-rollers reachable inside 80 to 120 km, and that competition sharpens pricing for anyone who lives close enough to shop it around. Jalna’s advantage is different: this is a genuine re-rolling and TMT cluster, not a collection point. Local mills consume what they buy. Sellers from Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Parbhani, Beed, Latur and Jalgaon move material here specifically because freight is short and payment cycles are faster than in the big-city yards. Faster money at a comparable headline rate often beats a marginally better quote you have to chase for two weeks. For the full freight breakdown before your next load, scrap steel transport costs across Maharashtra is worth twenty minutes.

Nobody explains this part properly, and it’s where most Jalna sellers quietly lose money without ever realising it.

The gap between those two boxes is ₹5,700 to ₹9,700/MT. On a single 10-tonne load that’s ₹57,000 to ₹97,000. Sorting is not a nice-to-have in Jalna. It’s the highest-paid work available to a scrap seller in this district. The full mechanics of how the gap forms are laid out at factory vs yard scrap price difference.

Not all ferrous scrap ends up with the same buyer. Grade decides destination, and destination decides how much negotiating room you actually have.

HMS 1 is the cleanest heavy melting scrap: thick gauge, minimal contamination, no light sheet mixed in. Induction furnaces and re-rollers across Jalna and Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar want it because it melts predictably and they can plan a heat around it. It currently fetches ₹29.50 to ₹34.50/kg. Expect a buyer to push toward the bottom of that band if your load has mixed sizing or visible surface scale.

HMS 2 covers thinner gauge material and a looser mix of profiles and offcuts, trading at ₹28.50 to ₹32.50/kg. Here’s the trap. Jalna buyers will dock ₹1 to ₹2/kg on HMS 2 loads carrying heavy light-gauge content, and if you graded your load as HMS 1 and his team reclassifies it as HMS 2 at unloading, that’s a ₹10,000 to ₹16,000 swing on an 8-tonne deal. Grade it correctly before it leaves your yard, not at the destination gate where you have zero leverage.

MS iron sheet and rolling scrap is the best-paying standard grade in Jalna right now at ₹36 to ₹40/kg, sitting close to the mill’s own punching card, because it works as a direct-charge material for furnaces that don’t want to gamble on unpredictable mixed loads. CR busheling and end-cutting at ₹35 to ₹38.50/kg is close behind and genuinely tight on supply, so book it early if you have it. Cast iron industrial grade at ₹30 to ₹34/kg is steady. Foundry-grade or low-purity cast iron at ₹24 to ₹29/kg stays the most volatile category on the list, because buyers discount aggressively the moment they suspect low carbon content or mixed alloy contamination. For the melt economics behind why these grades separate the way they do, the HMS vs cast iron scrap value page goes properly deep.

Here’s the catch nobody warns first-time sellers about: the rate you agree on the phone is not always the rate on the final invoice. The real negotiation happens at the weighbridge and during unloading. Turn up unprepared and you’ll lose money on a deal you were sure was already closed.

Buyers across the Jalna–Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar corridor check for:

• Moisture content, particularly on material stored outdoors or moved after rain. Wet loads get docked ₹1–2/kg across the full consignment, and monsoon storage can add 1–3% to gross weight while contributing nothing to melt yield
• Non-ferrous contamination such as copper wiring, aluminium brackets, rubber fittings or plastic still attached to ferrous pieces
• Grade consistency, meaning whether what you called HMS 1 actually meets his thickness and profile criteria once it hits the floor
• Weighbridge discrepancy, where your loaded and tare weights don’t match his certified weighbridge at destination
• Paperwork, because a GST-registered yard can claim the 18% input credit and will pay more for material that arrives with a clean invoice than for the same steel arriving without one

A buyer in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar once docked ₹2/kg on an entire 8-tonne load because three heavy pieces had surface rust scaling bad enough that his furnace operator flagged it as a melt-efficiency risk. The material wasn’t rejected. It got regraded on the spot, and that cost the seller ₹16,000 off an agreed price with no room to argue. Grade before dispatch, not after. That habit alone is what separates a clean deal from a gate argument. More on testing and grading at iron scrap purity testing guide.

Put a rupee figure on the weighbridge risk while you’re at it. At ₹32.90/kg, a 150 kg reading discrepancy on a mid-sized truck is ₹4,935 gone in one transaction. A weighbridge owned by the buyer is rarely a neutral instrument. Getting a certified reading before your material reaches his gate gives you leverage that no price chart can.

This is the one trade insight you will not find on any rate aggregator page.

Friday afternoon is consistently the worst time to close a deal in the Jalna–Sambhajinagar–Nanded corridor. Induction furnaces around here regularly cut or pause intake going into Saturday, because plant managers don’t want a full melt cycle running over the weekend on skeleton maintenance staff. Buyers know their own intake schedule. By Friday afternoon they’re in no hurry at all. They can sit until Monday, and that removes every scrap of urgency from the buy side. Sellers who need to move material before the weekend routinely end up quoting ₹1 to ₹2/kg under Wednesday levels just to get it gone.

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Time your calls for Tuesday through Thursday morning and you’ll close at the stronger end of the week’s band far more often than not. It costs you nothing to wait 48 hours.

Seasonally, there’s one period where this whole pattern flips. In the run-up to Diwali, mills rush to clear finished goods inventory before the holiday break, which spikes scrap intake temporarily and can push Jalna rates up ₹500 to ₹1,500 per tonne for ten to fourteen days. If you’re sitting on a stockpile going into autumn, that window is worth planning around.

The sellers who consistently pull top rates out of this market aren’t smarter negotiators. They just do a handful of unglamorous things properly, every time.

• Grade before loading, never at the gate. Separate HMS 1, HMS 2, sheet, cast iron and turnings into distinct piles. Pull out every scrap of non-ferrous
• Close mid-week. Tuesday to Thursday morning, when buyers still have intake slots to fill
• Get a certified weighbridge slip before the truck reaches the buyer’s yard, not after
• Never anchor to a Pune or Mumbai quote without subtracting ₹0.90 to ₹1.30/kg of freight first — and check whether you’re comparing base grades or the mill’s own named grades, because the maths is different for each
• Negotiate MIDC factory-direct lots separately from yard-collected mixed scrap. They aren’t the same product and should never carry the same price
• Move full truckloads where you can, and insist on a GST invoice if you hold a GSTIN. Registered buyers pay more because they can claim the credit
• Call three buyers, not one. The spread between the first and best quote in Jalna is routinely ₹1 to ₹2/kg on identical material

If you want verified daily rates across Jalna and the rest of Maharashtra alongside access to buyers who’ve already been checked for legitimacy, Steel Baba tracks city-level prices and connects sellers directly with real mill buyers. The mistakes that cost people money on their first few deals are collected at scrap seller mistakes to avoid, and it’s genuinely worth reading before your next negotiation rather than after it.

Jalna Scrap Rate FAQs

All figures above are indicative and move with daily market conditions as of September 2026. The Jalna mill card is verified directly; standard-grade and non-ferrous ranges are dealer-surveyed indications. Confirm current rates directly with your buyer or a verified dealer like SteelBaba before finalising any load.