Business Case

The business case for shredder-residue gasification rests on a rare quality: the plant earns from several directions at once. Electricity, recovered metals, glass aggregate and zinc each contribute revenue, so the project is not dependent on a single commodity price.

That diversification is the structural advantage. A plant whose only output is power lives or dies by the power price; a plant that also sells copper, aluminium, steel, aggregate and zinc spreads its risk across markets that do not move together.

Feedstock Costs Can Go Negative

The second pillar is feedstock. Residue is something shredder operators currently pay to dispose of, which means a processor can be paid to take it — a negative feedstock cost. That inverts the usual project risk: instead of chasing scarce input, the plant sits at the receiving end of a stream someone else wants gone.

Combined with the recovered outputs, the gate fee turns the economics sharply positive, which is why residue processing endures where disposal is expensive and regulation is firm.

A Case That Compounds

The reference plant demonstrates the model at scale: 17 MW of power, metals to commodity markets, aggregate to construction, and nearly 200,000 tonnes processed in its first three years. That is a business case built on multiple, reinforcing revenue streams rather than a single bet.

Learn More About the ASR Business Model

• Automotive Shredder Residue Gasification Plant
• Solid Waste Recycling
• Feasibility Studies
• Financing and Funding

Partner With The KleanTeam to Build the Business Case

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Klean Industries builds the full business case for shredder-residue processing — feedstock, offtake, capital and operating costs — backed by an operating reference plant generating revenue from every fraction.

Klean’s Key Advantages:

• ✅ An operating ASR gasification reference plant generating 17 MW plus metals and aggregate revenue.
• ✅ 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.

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