Recycling plants designed as one system
Scrap arrives coated, wet and inconsistent. The plant has to make good metal out of it anyway, every shift.
Secondary aluminium is where we have delivered the largest number of complete plants. The reason is that the job suits how we work: the decoating line, the furnace, the charging system and the fume treatment only perform if they are specified against each other, and that coordination is exactly what falls apart when each package is bought separately.
We take the whole scope, from the process and layout through to the special machinery, which is why several of these projects are described in our references as comprehensive plant design rather than a discipline or a package.
What we do in this sector
Recycling plants
Complete plant design: process, layout, equipment selection, utilities and auxiliary systems.
Melting furnaces
Furnace design and supply, charging machines, skimming machines and dross processing lines.
Dryers & decoating
Ingot dryers and decoating systems engineered around the actual scrap quality the plant will receive.
Automation & digital validation
Process automation plus digital twin simulation used to validate the plant before commissioning.
Where we have done it
Hydro Cassopolis (USA) and Hydro Høyanger (Norway), Novelis (USA), Constellium (France), Tesla Berlin (Germany), Shandong Chuangxin, Shandong Yunnan and Shandong Suzhou (China), CCE and Interal (Azerbaijan), Yalcinlar (Turkey), Cazuca (Colombia), Omega (Brazil), and Exlabesa, Coralium and Aluind (Spain). Digital twin and full plant simulation delivered with Insertec in 2023.
Is this the piece you are missing?
Send us the plant, the constraint and the timeline. You will get an engineer's answer, not a brochure.