Magnesium automotive scrap

Magnesium is certainly also being used in the automotive industry. Hence, we also focus on automotive magnesium scrap. Magnesium actually makes every car lighter and thus, it can increasingly benefit more cars and their users because fuel consumption also becomes less. However, this also means an increase in automotive magnesium scrap. We buy this, we recycle it and we also process it. Recycling automotive magnesium scrap is vital, especially for the environment.

Magnesium allows lighter cars to be built

Magnesium entered into the car world in the form of wheels. Initially, producers primarily used carbon and aluminium to build lighter products. However, Magnesium is one third lighter than aluminium and even 75 percent lighter than steel. Initially however, it was too difficult to process, which is now different. Because of increased use of magnesium in the car industry, it is logical for more automotive magnesium scrap to become available. We process this so that natural magnesium reserves do not always need to be sourced.

Too precious and difficult to process

The reason for car manufacturers’ preference for using magnesium instead of the other products is that lighter cars are more economical and therefore consume less fuel. Initially, however, magnesium was too costly because it was difficult to modify. However, there are now ways to make this easier. Yet many car products are still staying with carbon and aluminium due to a lack of information about magnesium. Nevertheless, proportions of automotive magnesium scrap have increased considerably.

Recycling everything with a power plug

Demand for magnesium continues to grow. This is largely due to electrical appliances and the decreasing periods of time for which we are using them as consumers. This time is decreasing because we keep wanting the latest devices and equipment more quickly. For this new equipment, new magnesium must always be sourced. This situation is far from a positive one, and this makes magnesium recycling very important, just as recycling everything that has a power plug is becoming more important; certainly for the environment as well as for the scrap heap.

On the list of critical raw materials

The magnesium recycling process is not an easy one. Often, it involves impurities in the form of non-metallic and oxide particles. To avoid these, emulsifying salts are used. Meanwhile, magnesium has found a place on the European Union list of critical raw materials together with other materials such as cobalt, graphite, antimony and fluorite. This is because of limited recycling potential and the fact that the EU imports 47% of world production. This production mostly occurs in China, a country that tends to be affected by trade restrictions.

We will continue our good work

Enough reason for us to continue to buy automotive magnesium scrap and to continue our good work. Apart from automotive scrap, we also deal with magnesium die cast scrap, magnesium castings, walnut and magnesium skim blocks and this excludes many other grades of other magnesium for the sake of expediency.