# Brass Purja Rate Today, 15 October 2026: Turnings Prices, Grades & How Dealers Price Them

The brass purja rate today is ₹858 per kg (buy) and ₹900 per kg (sell) in Delhi's dealer bulletin for 15 October 2026. Purja — the curly turnings and borings left behind when brass rods and sheets are machined — trades about 4% below brass honey and well under clean mixed brass, mostly because of oil, moisture, and melt loss.

This is the grade most sellers never hear named. Dealers quote it separately from honey, chadari, and mixed brass, and the gap between the grades is where money gets made or left behind. Below: today's numbers, why purja is priced the way it is, and how to sell it for more. For the full daily picture, start with our brass-scrap rate page, which carries detailed city-wise brass rates updated every morning.

What is brass purja?Brass purja rate today: the 15 October grade tableWhat decides the brass purja rate todayBrass purja rate today vs mixed brass: why turnings pay less per kilo than solidsHow to sell brass purja for moreFAQsWhat is the brass purja rate today?Why is brass purja cheaper than brass honey?Should I sell purja to a kabadiwala or a dealer?Where does most of India's brass purja come from?

What is brass purja?

Brass purja is the swarf that comes off lathes and CNC machines when brass rods, sheets, and billets are turned, drilled, or milled. It looks like fine golden curls and chips — light, springy, and mixed with cutting oil. Every brass-parts workshop produces it by the sackful; Jamnagar's brass cluster alone, which we covered in our Jamnagar brass market guide, machines thousands of tonnes of brass a year, and a good share of that metal leaves the lathe as purja before it ever becomes a fitting or a valve.

Foundries buy purja back as furnace feedstock. But before it can be melted, somebody has to deal with the oil, the moisture, the dust, and the occasional steel chip from a worn tool. That somebody's cost is exactly why purja never prices like honey. The brass purja rate today bakes in that cleanup cost.

Brass purja rate today: the 15 October grade table

Delhi's dealer bulletin for 15 October 2026 (morning quotes, via the ScrapC Delhi mandi page) lines the brass grades up in a clear pecking order:

GradeWhat it isBuy (₹/kg)Sell (₹/kg)Brass HoneyClean 60/40 yellow-brass solids896938Brass ChadariThin brass sheets878920Brass PurjaTurnings and borings858900Brass (Mixed)Unsorted household brass, kabadi rate431—

Two things jump out. First, purja sits ₹38 per kg below honey on the buy side — about 4.2% — and ₹20 below chadari. That is the market's price for the oil and the extra handling. Second, the mixed-brass figure (₹431, our own Delhi Tier A rate for 15 October from today's 15-city grid) is not a dealer grade at all: it is what a kabadiwala pays for unsorted household brass, bartan and fittings weighed in one lot. The dealer grades are a different market from the doorstep market, and purja belongs firmly to the dealer market.

The buy–sell spread on purja is ₹42 per kg. That spread is the dealer's margin for cleaning, briquetting, and carrying the metal — and it is also your incentive to deliver purja that needs less of that work.

What decides the brass purja rate today

Purja is still brass — roughly 60% copper, 40% zinc — so it moves with the same two exchanges that move every brass grade:

Copper and zinc anchors. MCX copper closed at ₹1,403.95 per kg and zinc at ₹415.70 on the 14 October session, the latest available MCX. A firmer copper print lifts the whole brass ladder; purja climbs with it, just from a lower rung.

Oil and coolant load. Fresh-off-the-lathe purja can carry several percent of its weight in cutting oil. Dealers either centrifuge it out or discount for it — either way, somebody pays.

Moisture and dust. Wet purja weighs more and melts worse. Dry, covered storage is free money.

Ferrous contamination. One steel chip in the sack and the whole lot reads as mixed. A magnet pass before bagging is the cheapest grade upgrade in the trade.

Lot size. A foundry buyer taking 500 kg of dry, oil-free purja pays closer to dealer rates than a kabadiwala weighing 5 kg at the door.

Brass purja rate today vs mixed brass: why turnings pay less per kilo than solids

It feels backwards — purja comes from clean new metal, while mixed brass is old bartan — so why does the turnings grade price below honey? Melt loss is the honest answer. Honey-grade solids go straight into the crucible with minimal loss. Purja has to be dried, de-oiled, often briquetted into dense pucks, and even then the fine chips oxidize more in the melt. The foundry's recovery on a kilo of purja is simply lower than on a kilo of solid honey, and the quote reflects that before you ever reach the weighing scale.

There is a second, quieter reason: assay risk. A sack of purja can hide moisture, mixed alloys, and grinding dust in ways a solid fitting cannot. Dealers price that uncertainty in. Clean, dry, single-alloy purja from one workshop narrows the discount fast — which is why Jamnagar's big machining units, selling steady dry lots to the same foundries week after week, get the best purja numbers in the country.

How to sell brass purja for more

These five steps will help you secure the best brass purja rate today from any dealer or foundry buyer. Every buyer quotes the brass purja rate today grade-wise, so clean, dry, sorted lots always earn a premium. Track the brass purja rate today each week — when the spread between honey and purja narrows, that's your signal to sell.

Drain and dry it. Spread fresh turnings on a tray for a day, or spin them if you have the setup. Oil is the single biggest line-item discount on purja.

Run a magnet through every sack. Steel chips from tooling are the fastest way to get your lot downgraded.

Keep alloys separate. Red brass or gun-metal swarf mixed into yellow-brass purja drags the whole assay down. One drum per alloy.

Sell to foundry buyers, not the kabadiwala. The doorstep rate is built for mixed lots. Dry purja in volume belongs with a dealer or foundry agent who pays grade-wise — check today's live rates before you quote.

Name the grade and the quantity. "Dry brass purja, 200 kg, oil-free" opens at a different number than an unnamed sack of borings. Dealers respect sellers who speak grade.

FAQs

What is the brass purja rate today?Delhi's dealer bulletin for 15 October 2026 quotes brass purja at ₹858 per kg (buy) and ₹900 per kg (sell). Purja — machining turnings and borings — trades about 4% below brass honey (₹896/938) because of oil, moisture, and melt loss. Like all brass grades, it tracks MCX copper and zinc. Bookmark the brass purja rate today for daily tracking.Why is brass purja cheaper than brass honey?Honey-grade solids melt cleanly with minimal loss. Purja carries cutting oil, moisture, and dust, needs drying and briquetting before the furnace, and loses more metal in the melt. The roughly 4% discount is the market pricing that extra processing. The brass purja rate today reflects that processing cost.Should I sell purja to a kabadiwala or a dealer?Small mixed lots are fine at the kabadiwala's doorstep rate. But dry, sorted purja in volume should go to a dealer or foundry buyer who pays grade-wise rates — the spread between doorstep and dealer pricing is widest on graded material like this. Dealers quoting the brass purja rate today reward clean, dry lots.Where does most of India's brass purja come from?Machining clusters — Jamnagar's brass-parts industry is the biggest, turning thousands of tonnes of brass rod and sheet into fittings, valves, and fasteners every year. The turnings flow straight back to local foundries as feedstock, which is why Jamnagar also sets some of the sharpest purja pricing in the country. That volume keeps the brass purja rate today sharp in Jamnagar.

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