Companies For The Recycling And Recovery Of Industrial Metals

Faced with the growing demand for metals, industries are looking for other alternatives to obtain their supplies. The recycling and recovery of metal waste of industrial origin not only helps preserve the environment but it also generates substantial savings.

Why recycle industrial scrap metal?

Metals are among the most commonly used materials in the industrial sector. This is particularly the case in the steel industry, aeronautics, automobile design and construction. Industrial metal waste is now also recycled by specialised companies. This recycling restores value to metal waste and is made up of several stages, namely: collection of materials and storage, sorting of waste, shearing and cutting, compacting, crushing, packaging and finally dewatering.

The recycling of industrial metals is an environmental necessity. Recycling in this manner makes it possible to:

• prevent environmental damage;
• to save resources as well as the energy necessary for the extraction and the treatment of the ore;
• recover the metal by recycling it and thus produce new metals more quickly.

There are a number of French companies that specialise in the recovery, purchase and recycling of industrial metals. Their mission is to sort, isolate and separate the materials that make up the waste by recycling the recoverable materials. The recovered metals are smelted and purified then transformed into bars, ingots or coils and can be used again in industrial processes.

Categories of industrial metals that can be recycled

Metals such as aluminum, iron, brass, copper, bronze, tin, steel and other non-ferrous metals are recyclable. Below are some examples of industrial metal recycling:

• Aluminium is an easy metal to recover and is also 100% recyclable. 95% of the energy spent on the production of primary aluminium is saved in recycling.
• 47% of French steel comes from recycling. It can be recycled endlessly and without loss.
• As for tin, it can be recycled endlessly and yet its current recovery rate is estimated at only 33% globally.

Some companies are specialists in the recycling and recovery of complex metal waste, such as lead and silver.

List of companies specialising in the recycling of industrial metals

Several industrial metal recycling companies are present on the French market, such as Metaconcept. Specialists in the recovery, recycling and recovery of ferrous and non-ferrous metals from industry, their experts offer a complete and tailor-made service, including the provision of suitable containers, on-site collection of industrial waste, transport by an approved professional, sorting, recycling and recovery. Metaconcept can process metals from soldering baths, jewellery waste and metal waste from electroplating and pewter pottery.

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