ASA offers both Pre-Shipment and Post-Shipment inspection services for commodity trades, specializing in the metals recycling industry such as ferrous and non-ferrous scraps, electronic scraps and other similar grades.

The highly specialized services of ASA is used by major players in the industry as "Settlement Solutions", to mitigate the risk factors for both the buyer and seller, especially in the current global scenario and competitive trading conditions.

ASA undertakes inspection work for a number of companies from U.K, Europe and North America, acting as per the scope of instructions of our clients (buyer or seller), conducting quality and quantity checks, both prior to shipment and contract conclusion and also upon of arrival of consignments (post shipment inspection) in most major locations in Europe, America and the far east Asian countries.

In short we build a bridge between the seller and the buyer and create an atmosphere of mutual trust, wherein both the parties gain comfort in either entering into a contract or for settling any quality issues arising upon arrival. ASA offers a total impartial service in offering objective analysis and report which can be relied upon in assisting our clients to make their commercial judgment.

One of our clients (a leading British exporter) has made it mandatory for us to inspect all their containers on arrival (Post shipment inspection) which has gone well with both the importer and exporter relieving them from worries pertaining to quality related issues.

We offer the following inspection services:
1. Supervision of Loading/Unloading
2. Quantity inspection
3. Sampling and Quality assessment
4. Complete Loading/Unloading Inspection (involving a comprehensive inspection procedure caried out combining services 1, 2 & 3)
5. Chemical analysis for residues (eg. Dross)
6. Spectro analysis for alloy testing