Rio tinto has other contractors to remediate alu slag rio tinto employs ultromex in europe.
i hope they will hire pyr for their waste disposal needs in canada and the us .
can we compete ?
UK company Ultromex recently signed a major contract with Rio Tinto to remediate a salt slag landfill site in Europe. Ultromex, together with its partner EJM Hydrovac, will excavate, process and re-instate the site in France during the next three years. This multi-million Euro contract will treat 65,000 t of salt slag waste.
Salt slag, also referred to as salt cake or black dross is a waste material generated by secondary aluminium processing (the recycling and smelting of new aluminium from aluminium scrap, dross and other industry wastes). Due to its reactivity with water and the nature of the contaminants it contains, salt slag (or salt cake as it sometimes known) is now classed as a hazardous waste.
Nigel Seddon, CEO of Ultromex commented “The signing of this major contract is the result of more than three years hard work by the Ultromex & EJM teams, including a pilot trial which validated and demonstrated to Rio Tinto the effectiveness of our Saltromex process for remediating slag. The Ultromex plant will be built during 2021 and will be capable of processing the waste at a rate of 18 t per hour. We are pleased to be working with such a prestigious company as Rio Tinto and we are confident that our technology will open up many future projects in Europe and around the world”.
Many aluminium smelting wastes are hazardous in nature and historically were routinely landfilled before the EU and other regions changed regulations to prohibit further landfill. There are many such landfills in existence around the world and, where they cause environmental issues, Ultromex now has a proven solution to resolve the problem.
Ultromex, based near Liverpool, offers a range of technologies to treat and recycle aluminium smelting wastes. It offers solutions to address wastes such as dross, salt slag, SPL and filter dusts as they arise at the smelter, or in this case, where they have been stockpiled or landfilled in the past.