Recycling & recovery
Metals and waste recovery
What we recover
Nineteen streams, one route back into production.
19 of 19 streams
Alloy Metal Powder
Powder
AOD Dust
Dust
EAF Dust
Dust
Wet Filtercake
Filtercake
Dried Filtercake
Filtercake
Grindings
Solids
Ni Hydroxide
Powder
BB's
Solids
Nuggets
Solids
Mill Scale
Scale
Fine Mill Scale
Scale
Moly Oxide
Oxide
Ni Powder
Powder
Plasma Dust
Dust
Shot Dust
Dust
Sinter Powder
Powder
Mill Sludge
Sludge
Turnings
Solids
Pelletizer Dust
Dust
Processing capability
Recovery is a metallurgical problem before it is a logistics one. The value in a filtercake or a plasma dust is only realised if the metal content is identified accurately and separated cleanly.
Fine to coarse
Metallurgical and metal-powder processing experience covering material from extremely fine metallic dusts and powders through to coarse solids and turnings.
Sorted and segregated
Arisings are 100% sorted and segregated so that alloy content is recovered at its true specification rather than downgraded into a mixed stream.
Certified output
Processed material is certified before it is sold to end customers to be melted back into its parent alloy as air-melt or vacuum grade product.
Priced on what we recover
Our staff will explain exactly which metals we can recover from your stream, and price against that.
Metals recovered
- Nickel
- Cobalt
- Titanium
- Molybdenum
- Niobium
- Tantalum
- Tungsten
- Zirconium
- Hafnium
- Rhenium
Precious metals including gold, platinum, rhenium are recovered from aerospace streams. Aerospace reverts
Recovery process
How material moves through IMS.
Step 01 of 06
Source
Material is collected as arisings from petrochemical, oil & gas, industrial gas turbine and aerospace operations, alongside our international supply network.
Step 02 of 06
Inspect
Incoming loads are sampled and booked in. Feed stock is checked against the declared specification before it enters the process.
Step 03 of 06
Sort
Arisings are sorted and segregated by alloy family and grade, so that material is never downgraded by being mixed with a lower specification.
Step 04 of 06
Process
Streams are processed into a saleable form — from coarse solids through to extremely fine metallic dusts and powders.
Step 05 of 06
Certify
Our metallurgical laboratory analyses production and issues the certification that accompanies the material to the customer.
Step 06 of 06
Supply
Certified material is supplied to end customers worldwide to be melted back into its parent alloy as either air-melt or vacuum grade product.
Tungsten Recycling
Tungsten carbide, Densalloy, CP-W, tungsten powder and heavy metals, in almost all forms of scrap and production waste.
Aerospace Reverts
Engine teardown, onsite destruction of life-limited parts, superalloy grading and precious metal recovery.
Quality & Compliance
Sampling, feed-stock analysis and metallurgical testing behind every certified consignment.
Tell us what is in your waste stream.
We currently treat 19 distinct streams. Send us the analysis, or a sample, and we will tell you exactly which metals we can recover and what they are worth.
Or email info@ims-metals.com