Metal Refining

SepMetal Tehnologies, with our global partners, offer a complete range of trading services for miners, smelters, refiners, waste management, waste generators and metal consumers around the world

Concentrated output from our cleantech technologies with localised pretreatment and processing centres for solids and liquids, maximise value, reduce settlement times and carbon emissions

We treat a wide range of non-ferrous secondary waste streams and byproducts

• Complex, hazardous, low grade waste streams and by-products
• Metallic ruthenium scrap > Ru.5% 
• Low grade PM/PGMs in solution
• Activated carbon, ashes, slags, powders
• Filters, sludge, resin
• Jewellery scrap and bench lemel
• Fuel cells and electrolysers
• Green energy
• Electroplating rejects, resins, filters and solutions
• Aerospace and military

• Spent catalyst bed support balls >90% alumina containing 
•  Ru Catalysts 
• Anode, cathode, and cell components.
• Chemical processing equipment.
• Air pollution control equipment.
• Pulp and paper bleaching, washing equipment.
• Hydrometallurgical extraction and electrowinning.
• Desalination, brine concentration and evaporation
• Catalyst, dust and fines
• Oil refineries, syngas, olechemical, pharma, agrochemical, fragrances and flavours
• Precious metal heterogeneous or homogeneous catalysts  
• Hydrotreating catalyst containing NiMo, NiMoV, CoMo, V/Mo and NiW
• Ni, ZnO, FeMo catalyst  
• Rhenium catalyst

• All types of Copper waste streams and by-products Cu >6%
• Copper anode slime
• Copper sludge and filtercake, Copper cement, Copper dust
• Copper matte,  Copper slag, etc

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• Grade 7 sheets/bars/turnings/mesh 

Where to find

•  Anode, cathode, and cell components.
• Chemical processing equipment.
• Air pollution control equipment.
• Pulp and paper bleaching, washing equipment.
• Hydrometallurgical extraction and electrowinning.
• Desalination, brine concentration and evaporation

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• All types of Nickel waste streams and by-products Ni >6%
• Sludge, powders, ashes and dust
• Filtercake and sludges  from the galvanic industry
• Nickel byproduct from catalyst recycling
• All other nickel oxides / hydroxides

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• All types of Tin waste streams and by-products Sn >6%
• Solder dross: tin; tin/lead; tin/silver
• Solder paste in pots or syringes
• Tin sludge, filter cake and powder
• Tin metallic, bullion, ingot

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• Low grade REE in solution
• Hard to process REE concentrates

• Rhenium metallic scrap >5% 
• Aerospace alloy scrap  CMSX-10; EPM-102; MC-NG; MX-4; PWA1497; Rene N6; TMS-75; TMS-138; TMS-142 
• ITO deposits
• Indium and gallium waste streams
• Cobalt, molybdenum, tantalum, tungsten and vanadium 
• Mo/Ta/W soft and hard

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