{"id":21859,"date":"2024-06-20T10:40:41","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T08:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/circular-technology.com\/?p=21859"},"modified":"2024-06-20T10:40:41","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T08:40:41","slug":"indias-first-large-scale-ewaste-recycling-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/circular-technology.com\/en\/indias-first-large-scale-ewaste-recycling-facility\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s first large-scale ewaste recycling facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Hindalco Industries Limited, a global leader in aluminum and copper, and a flagship company of the Aditya Birla Group, has awarded Metso an order for the delivery of a large integrated electronic waste recycling process to be built nearby their Birla copper unit in Pakhajan, in the State of Gujarat in India. The greenfield facility, which will be the first of its kind in India, is planned to produce 50kt of low-carbon copper annually. The majority of the order value, which is not disclosed, is booked in the Minerals segment\u2019s second-quarter 2024 orders received.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">The Metso scope of delivery consists of three Kaldo<sup>TM\u00a0<\/sup>furnaces, an anode furnace and an anode casting shop, gas cleaning, and supporting equipment. Metso will also deliver basic engineering for the plant. The new facility is expected to be built and commissioned within two years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u201cWe are excited and honored to have been trusted with this order. Hindalco is the world\u2019s second largest copper rod player and India\u2019s largest copper manufacturer. The\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/publish.ne.cision.com\/l\/ggrimbepc\/www.metso.com\/corporate\/sustainability\/our-planet-positive-offering\" rel=\"noopener\">Planet Positive<\/a>\u00a0process to be delivered by Metso is energy-efficient and allows high metal recoveries. It also conforms to tight emission controls with zero liquid discharge,\u201d explains Jyrki Makkonen, Vice President, Smelting at Metso.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Metso&#8217;s Outotec\u00ae eScrap solutions unlock the value of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) using Metso\u2019s proven smelting, refining, hydrometallurgy, and gas-cleaning technologies. Currently, Metso is collaborating with several customers on electronic waste recycling solutions in the testing, piloting, basic engineering, and delivery phases.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>photo: Metso<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"circu-3600660149\" class=\"circu-nach-dem-inhalt circu-entity-placement\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6583126023337333\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6583126023337333\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"\" \ndata-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hindalco Industries Limited, a global leader in aluminum and copper, and a flagship company of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21861,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[863],"tags":[948,949],"class_list":["post-21859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-scrap","tag-escrap","tag-plant"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circular-technology.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/metso_escrap_plant.jpg?fit=700%2C700&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/circular-technology.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/circular-technology.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/circular-technology.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/circular-technology.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/circular-technology.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21859"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/circular-technology.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21863,"href":"https:\/\/circular-technology.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21859\/revisions\/21863"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/circular-technology.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/circular-technology.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/circular-technology.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/circular-technology.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}