£41mln plant in Kent opens for critical materials recovery
The UK plant will sample copper-bearing waste for further processing and refining.
Glencore’s Britannia Refined Metals (BRM) has opened its new sampling plant to expand into recycling copper-bearing waste.
The new facility has the capacity to sample up to 25,000t of copper-bearing waste annually – much of it is expected to be recovered from recycled appliances, including fridges and microwaves, e-scrap and automotive wires.
The sampling plant will take copper-bearing waste and pass it through a series of shredders to reduce the size of the waste material.
BRM’s sample preparation facility will then roast the shredded waste material through a tray furnace and an induction furnace to divide it into even smaller samples, ready for collection and chemical analysis.
