German supplier of non-ferrous metals and copper recycler Aurubis AG has opened a new Advanced Sludge Processing by Aurubis (ASPA) recycling plant at Beerse, Belgium with an investment of €33m ($36.6m).
The new facility will process anode sludge, a valuable intermediate product from electrolytic copper refining produced at the Aurubis recycling sites at Beerse, and Lunen in Germany.
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The new process will help the faster extraction of more precious metals as well as the full recovery of tin from the anode sludge.
According to Inge Hofkens, COO of Aurubis, the company aims to become a “cornerstone in the European circular economy” through their development of metal recycling methods. She added that the effort in Belgium is being replicated in other locations, “we are also opening a completely new recycling site in Georgia, USA, and another recycling plant to recover valuable metals like nickel and copper at the Olen site in Belgium.”
According to Beerse Dirk Vandenberghe, Managing Director of Aurubis, the plant is the product of “years of dedication.” He credited ASPA’s success to “the expertise from the metallurgical know-know but also from the team spirit and a profound commitment to the circular economy.”
The new plant will add 20 jobs in Beerse, where 500 employees already work.
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By GlobalDataBeeser Mayor Cart Craane was proud of Aurubis for “living up to its intentions” and “ensuring the more efficient use of our raw materials and a more environmentally friendly approach.”
More than 200,000 tons of multimetal scrap, ranging from complex wastes to higher-grade scrap types from which metals, metal products, and minerals are created, are processed annually at the Beerse facility. After acquiring the locations in Beerse and Berango in 2020, Aurubis has grown even further to become one of the top recyclers of copper in the world, processing over a million tons of recyclables annually.
