Metals Value Chain

Recovered metal does not become circular the moment it is extracted — it becomes circular when it re-enters the industrial value chain that consumes metal. For shredder residue, that re-entry is the purpose of metal recovery: returning steel, copper, aluminium and stainless steel to the mills and processors that make new products.

The recovered metals from Klean’s automotive-shredder-residue plant are not downcycled into filler; they are sold to their respective metal markets as genuine secondary raw material. Ferrous metal returns to the scrap industry, and quality copper, aluminium and stainless steel reach their own commodity markets.

Why the Chain, Not Just the Metal, Matters

The value of recovered metal is realised through the chain it feeds. A clean, quality secondary metal displaces primary mining and smelting, which is where the environmental and economic value actually sits. Losing the metal to landfill breaks that chain; recovering it keeps the vehicle’s material working.

Shredder residue is, in this sense, the last untapped metal mine in the vehicle - a distributed, continually replenished source of metal that already exists above ground.

Combining Metal Recovery With Everything Else

Metal recovery never operates alone in shredder-residue processing. It is the leading edge of a process that also yields energy and aggregate — but it is the metals that anchor the economics, because they are the highest-value fraction the residue holds.

Learn More About Feeding the Metals Chain

• Automotive Shredder Residue Gasification Plant
• Solid Waste Recycling
• What Is Gasification?
• Feasibility Studies

Partner With The KleanTeam to Feed the Metals Chain

Safe. Clean. Profitable. One Proven Partner.

Klean Industries returns recovered metals from shredder residue to the industrial value chain at market quality — the circular-economy step that keeps vehicle and appliance material in use.

Klean’s Key Advantages:

• ✅ An operating ASR reference plant recovering market-quality ferrous and non-ferrous metals.
• ✅ Thirty-plus years engineering commercial gasification and waste-to-energy plants.
• ✅ 3 recovered carbon black (rCB) plants built in India over the past 2 years.
• ✅ KleanLoop blockchain provides end-to-end feedstock traceability.

Ready to feed recovered metals back into the chain?

Speak with a Solid Waste Expert at Klean Industries » GO.