Magnesium AM60 Alloy scrap

Magnesium AM60 Alloy scrap? We also buy, recycle and process this. This is of benefit for magnesium reserves and certainly also for the environment. We have done this work for twenty years and watch with displeasure how natural supplies of magnesium are being depleted. Recycling has become a bitter necessity. Magnesium is not already on the EU list of critical materials for nothing.

Half of the total magnesium production

Europe buys approximately half of all of the total magnesium produced, in particular from China, a country that tends to be subject to trade restrictions. In addition, insiders say that magnesium reserves in the ground are rapidly declining. Hence the case for recycling in order to eliminate this burden. Apart from magnesium AM60 Alloy scrap, we buy all available magnesium waste for processing.

A complicated recycling process

The recycling process for magnesium is complex because there are quite a few impurities involved in the form of oxide and non-metallic particles. The use of emulsifying salts removes these impurities, but it does not make the process any easier. In due course, you can see the recycled applications in the form of iron, steel, chromium, nickel and manganese compounds, as well as in raw pig iron, raw steel and in ferro-alloys.

Continuously improving electrical devices

We all increasingly rely on magnesium AM60 Alloy; we also buy this as scrap. The fact that we use more has to do with electrical appliances which we now, in 2019, use for much shorter periods. Improved versions are always being launched on the market and ‘we’ must always have these straight away. So, electrical equipment has much shorter lifespans and the never-ending new editions always require new magnesium. This means bad news for magnesium reserves. By the way, we collect ‘old’ equipment, or at least magnesium waste, better known as magnesium AM60 Alloy scrap for example. We know how to manage this.

Breakthrough in the automotive-industry

A breakthrough is also likely to come in the automobile industry where the use of magnesium is concerned. Magnesium helps to produce lighter cars and the lighter the car, the less fuel it needs. However, there is currently still too much unfamiliarity, and magnesium is proving difficult to modify. However, a breakthrough does seem likely and magnesium will replace aluminium and carbon.

We will continue our good work

We like buying magnesium AM60 Alloy Scrap and other magnesium waste. We process it and it can be found again for instance in compounds of iron, steel, chromium and nickel, as well as in raw pig iron and steel, and in ferrous alloys. For environmental reasons alone, the recycling of magnesium and other raw materials is the right thing to do. This allows us to maintain levels of available resources as well as the (already too high) scrap heap we are all aware of. And so, we will continue our work as a buyer and processor of magnesium with full steam ahead.