Imagine walking around with holes in your pockets.
Tiny, precious metals sprinkle out every time you move.
This is exactly what is happening in many sorting plants right now.
Valuable metals disappear into the scrap stream, instead of being collected and sold.
There are many ways to patch the holes. You can stuff the pockets with duct tape, change your pants more often or – as we suggest here – use an Eddy CurrentEddy current – En teknologi til sortering af ikke-jernholdige metaller som aluminium ved hjælp af hvirvelstrømme. Eddy current separerer metaller uden magnetiske egenskaber fra affaldsstrømme, og er en… More Separator (ECS). The last option is by far the most cost-effective.
How an Eddy CurrentEddy current – En teknologi til sortering af ikke-jernholdige metaller som aluminium ved hjælp af hvirvelstrømme. Eddy current separerer metaller uden magnetiske egenskaber fra affaldsstrømme, og er en… More turns your scrap into money
An Eddy CurrentEddy current – En teknologi til sortering af ikke-jernholdige metaller som aluminium ved hjælp af hvirvelstrømme. Eddy current separerer metaller uden magnetiske egenskaber fra affaldsstrømme, og er en… More separator uses magnetic fields to push non-ferrous metals away from the other material. We’re talking everything from aluminum and copper to brass, zinc and stainless steel – metals that have a high market value.
In practice, this means that your pile of mixed scrap or waste suddenly becomes a structured resource where valuable metals can be sold as clean, secondary raw materials.
Where is the gold hidden?
Valuable metals are found in most waste streams, and the examples are numerous. Here are just a few areas where they can be extracted:
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- E-scrap – Electronic waste with hidden metal values in circuit boards, cables and components
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- Construction and demolition waste – Metal residues from pipes, fittings and structures
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- IBA (Incinerator Bottom Ash)IBA – Incinerator Bottom Ash – restmateriale fra forbrændingsanlæg. IBA indeholder metaller, sten og slagger, og kan sorteres for at udvinde genanvendelige metaller. More – Ash residue from incinerators where metals are still hidden
But when does it pay off?
Let’s assume you are processing a scrap stream with a mixture of metals. An Eddy CurrentEddy current – En teknologi til sortering af ikke-jernholdige metaller som aluminium ved hjælp af hvirvelstrømme. Eddy current separerer metaller uden magnetiske egenskaber fra affaldsstrømme, og er en… More separator can typically recover a valuable fraction that was previously lost.
If you can extract metals with your separator with a value of 250,000 – 1 million. DKK per month which is certainly not unrealistic, it means that the machine can pay for itself in between 8 months and 3 years. Subject to volumes and current market prices, of course.
So it’s not a question of whether you make a profit – but how quickly. For many installations, the investment can pay for itself before the next financial statement is prepared.
And let’s not forget that a standard Eddy CurrentEddy current – En teknologi til sortering af ikke-jernholdige metaller som aluminium ved hjælp af hvirvelstrømme. Eddy current separerer metaller uden magnetiske egenskaber fra affaldsstrømme, og er en… More separator has a life expectancy of 15 years.
This means that once you’ve patched the holes in the pockets, they’ll be refilled again and again for at least 12 years. No tape, no new pants – just a machine that makes sure you never drop valuable metals on the floor again.
So the question is not so much whether you can afford to invest in an Eddy CurrentEddy current – En teknologi til sortering af ikke-jernholdige metaller som aluminium ved hjælp af hvirvelstrømme. Eddy current separerer metaller uden magnetiske egenskaber fra affaldsstrømme, og er en… More separator, but rather whether you can afford not to.
Maybe worth considering?