Alumumium industry wastes including salt slags, spent pot liner and drosses ae generally classed as hazardous because of their potential to react with water, even moisture in the air, to create toxic and explosive gases. Moreover, they are highly variable from smelter to smelter and batch to batch.

In order to treat or even safely store these wastes where there is a potential for hydrolysis reactions to occur it is essential to be able to charcterise them physically & chemically to understand the risks and hazards involved.

In addition to our own offices, factory and laboratory facilities located near Liverpool in the UK, we have well established links with Universities at Chester and Liverpool. This give us access to highly specialised expertise & equipment and helps to develop new technologies and methods to help aluminium smelters. In turn we provide real world experience for under graduates: some of whom go on to join join our growing team of chemists, engineers and project managers.