You can't tell a good quote from a bad one.
Scrap prices shift daily by alloy, geography, and chemistry. Without real-time visibility across all three, every quote is either fine or terrible and there's no way to know which.
Lower costs with verified secondary materials, sourced and processed to your spec.
Outlast runs the operation end to end: supplier sourcing, chemistry verification, processing, and inbound logistics, so the material that arrives is what your blend needs, at a price the open market can't quote you
- Market-wide supplier network
- Blend optimization analysis
- Chemistry verification
- Processing & preparation
- Managed inbound logistics
the problem
Your input costs move with a market you do not control
three pains:
You're paying for grade you don't need.
Buying material that already meets your spec means paying the premium for it. Most specs can be met by blending, but only if someone can design the blend and verify the chemistry going in.
Every intermediary takes a cut.
Warehousing, logistics, quality control, and buyer matching are handled by dozens of disconnected middlemen. Each one is a margin event between the generator's price and yours.
the solution
We turn secondary materials into a dependable, lower-cost input.
We survey the supplier base for your chemistry, and source for your lowest cost blend.
Our proprietary blend optimization tools find the lowest cost blend that meets your spec.
We verify chemistry and process material to spec.
We make sure the material gets to you when you need it.
We only get paid when we save you money.
how it works
Spec
We start from your specification. Chemistry, tolerances, and volume requirements define the search.
Optimize
Our blend models design the lowest-cost material recipe that satisfies that specification, drawing on verified chemistry from across the supplier network.
Deliver
Material sourced, processed to spec, and delivered to your plant when you need it.
case study
$6.9 million in documented savings for a high-volume aluminum casting facility
The facility needed reliable, cost-efficient secondary metals. Outlast built the sourcing, testing, blending, warehousing, and logistics operation under a success-fee-aligned contract.
highlights
$6.9m
documented savings, inclusive of all fees
34–36%
savings vs. industry benchmark pricing
70%+
direct opex reduction projected at full-volume scale
who is this for?
Casting operations
Any facility running secondary metal as a production input, where chemistry tolerance is the constraint.
Smelters and mills
Consistent feedstock at a landed cost the spot market can't match.
Procurement teams
A single supplier relationship in place of a fragmented broker base, with verified chemistry on every load.
Multi-plant manufacturers
One program, one spec process, across every facility drawing the same input.
FAQs and common concerns
Every load carries a certificate of analysis, and chemistry is verified before material is priced rather than after it arrives. Quality compliance across managed material runs above 99.9%.
You can, and many plants do. What direct buying doesn't get you is visibility across the whole market at once or the ability to blend across multiple suppliers to hit a spec at lower cost than any single one of them can. That requires a network and a model, and it isn't recoverable against the input volume of one facility.
No need to end those relationships. Qualified suppliers stay in the mix, they're part of the network we source across. What changes is that their price is no longer the only price, and their characterization of the material is no longer the only characterization.
Success-fee aligned. Outlast is paid out of the savings generated, which means the documented savings in the case study on this page are net of everything the customer paid us to produce them. If we don't beat your current cost, there's nothing to share.