Industrial scale, novel, closed loop Aluminum waste treatment plant.

Global aluminium (AI) consumption set to reach 120M tonnes by 2025, AI production and recycling are large and important global industries. Slag and drosses are hazardous residual wastes from the AI smelting industry; historically, after treatment for metal recovery, the residue was landfilled but landfill is no longer permitted by EU waste regulations. While some metal can be recovered at specialist processing plants, it is extremely expensive with very high-energy burden and requires hazardous and toxic waste to be transported across Europe, making recovery uneconomic, but necessary. Closed-loop processing is a key driver for AI smelting, enabling maximum metal recovery, cost savings, efficiency gains, greater materials control, minimisation of hazardous outputs and a reduced carbon footprint. In this project Ultromex will radically improve the resource efficiency of AI production with regard to salt slag waste treatment. By the closed loop approach that our technology offers, giving recovery of metal and salts treated slag waste and conversion of residual solids into product-grade material. This is a front-running technology with confirmed interest and demand from many of the large AI smelters. The technology offers a solution to the industry's waste disposal challenge and a radical economic enhancement of the overall metal production process. Removing the need for transporting hazardous material across the EU, minimising landfill and reducing transport, storage and processing costs.