How to Reduce Gold Wastage in Your Workshop

Wastage is the quietest cost in a jewellery workshop, and most of it is recoverable.

Where it goes

Filing dust, polishing residue, solder loss, and floor sweep. Very little of it is theft; most of it is process.

Controls that work

Weigh in and weigh out for every job. Collect and refine sweep. Fit dust collection at the polishing bench. Track wastage per karigar so you know where to help.

Set a standard, then measure

A workshop that has never measured its wastage cannot reduce it. Start with one month of honest numbers.