Incineration scrap
In Europe (EU25), approximately 1,150,000 tonnes of steel scrap are sourced from incineration plants each year. With European countries under pressure to achieve EU landfill targets, incineration – and thus incineration scrap – is a major growth market.
A growing issue, however, is the contamination of the scrap stream by unwanted materials found in the bottom ash of incinerators. The most troublesome of these is copper, which causes new steel to become either soft or brittle. The number of non-liberated copper elements found in steel scrap has increased substantially in recent decades. Typical copper levels found in incineration scrap are today around 0.7% – well above steel mill requirements.
The ReSteel Solution reduces the copper levels of incineration scrap by at least 90%. The result is a ferrous fraction of almost pure iron, and comprising no less than 75-85% of the total scrap volume.
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