Shredder Residue Metals

Even after a shredder’s metal separation stages do their work, shredder residue still carries metal value — fragments of copper, aluminium, stainless steel and iron that escaped the primary recovery step. Capturing that secondary metal is a key part of processing the residue profitably.

The metals are bound into the mixed residue at small particle size, which is why they resist conventional separation. But they remain present, and a thermal process that accepts the residue as a whole can concentrate and release them.

How the Reference Plant Recovers Them

At Klean’s automotive-shredder-residue facility, magnetic metals are separated and returned to the shredder plant for recycling to the scrap industry. The non-ferrous fraction — copper, aluminium and stainless steel — is pre-separated and sent to a specialised non-ferrous separation plant, which feeds the metal back into the appropriate commodity markets.

That division of labour matters. By handing the separated metal to equipment already optimised for metal recovery, the process recovers quality copper, aluminium and stainless steel that sell at their full market value rather than being lost in the residue.

Metal First, Every Time

The lesson is ordering: recover the highest-value fraction first. Shredder residue is not a pure waste stream — it is a stream that still contains saleable metal, and the right process extracts it before anything is discarded.

Learn More About Metal Recovery From Residue

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

Partner With The KleanTeam to Recover Every Metal Fraction

Safe. Clean. Profitable. One Proven Partner.

Klean Industries designs shredder-residue processing that recovers the metals the shredder misses — proven by a reference plant returning steel, copper, aluminium and stainless steel to the market.

Klean’s Key Advantages:

• ✅ An operating ASR gasification reference plant recovering 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 recover the metals left in your residue?

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