Ultromex's remarkable ALTROMEX technology, for separating metal from slags & drosses, uses no crushing, milling or grinding, creates no metal fines and so recovers the maximum amount of metal for remelting.
Using crushing, milling or grinding equipment to break down slags & dross inevitably looses a considerable amount of the metal to unrecoverable metal fines.
ALTROMEX works in a completely different way, creating no metal fines and recovering the maximium amount of valuable metal possible. The remaining non metalics are in a form suitable for further treatment if desired.
This enhanced metal recovery adds considerably to the economic attractiveness of our metal recovery approach. Furthermore, ALTROMEX uses about ~30% of the energy of crushing and milling equipment and has relatively low maintenance costs (4 years operating data).
A further benefit of our highly effective metal recovery is that the remaining non metallics have significantly less reactivity potential, given that the amount of free alumium fine particles are a major conributor to the reactivity and gas evolution potential.
