Recycling
Precious metals are scarce in the world. Therefore, recycling is a responsibility and a prerequisite to ensure the future supply of raw metals.
Precious metals have the unique property that they can be recycled repeatedly without degradation of quality. It is currently estimated that the recycling of metals from electrical and electronic waste represents an annual global value of 120 billion Norwegian kroner, while the production of electronic devices is increasing.
As the Nordic region’s leading supplier of precious metals, we have a responsibility to carry out our work in a way that helps ensure the availability of metals in the future.
Today, we offer a wide range of recycling processes that ensure the quality and purity of the metals we deliver to our customers. This includes thermal reduction to capture all available precious metals. We have the ability to strip surface coatings, either chemically or through mechanical treatment, and are capable of performing both large- and small-scale smelting. Through chemical leaching, the material to be extracted is concentrated and prepared for dissolution and elemental separation.
Our recycling services include:
Global support and worldwide assistance.
Logistics management, including shipping, administration, and import of hazardous goods (TFS).
Examples of materials we recycle from:
- Used catalyst and residual material
- Sludge and residual material
- Powder and paste
- Catalyst carrier material
- Coated materials and components
- Solution for coating and coating removal
- Anodes and cathodes
- Aircraft engine components
- Ion exchange resin
- Filter
- Sweeping and sweeping paper/rags
- Jigging wires
- Silver coating/foil and paste
- Evaporation and sputtering residual material
Innovation
New product; knitted silver mesh
As a good partner, an important part of our job is to research and develop new products that can contribute to increased efficiency for our customers. In 2020, we launched a knitted silver mesh made of pure silver wire, which is placed between the top layer and the underlying layer. The effect of this is that the general silver bed is reinforced to withstand thermal expansion cracks, which has been tested by a number of customers with good results.
If you would like more information about this, please contact us here.
More information about our silver catalysts: