Urban mines often outproduce real ones. End-of-life electronics, lithium-ion batteries, automotive scrap, and industrial residues hold higher concentrations of copper, gold, silver, palladium, and critical minerals than most virgin ore. Avimetal builds the modular processing and refining systems that turn these complex secondary feeds into marketable metal.
Metal recycling and e-waste processing demand a different technology stack than virgin ore mining: feeds are heterogeneous, contaminants are unpredictable, and emissions controls are non-negotiable. Avimetal’s Hybrid Plasma Smelting handles mixed feedstocks — printed circuit boards, shredded auto scrap, black mass from battery recycling, spent catalysts, and slag — while Hydrogen Plasma Refining provides a low-emission selective recovery path that meets modern regulatory standards. The modular containerized format suits both centralized recycling facilities and distributed regional micro-plants.
Recommended Avimetal Stack
- Tornado Mill — micronization of mixed scrap and circuit boards
- Electrostatic Dry Washer — dry separation of conductive and non-conductive fractions
- Hybrid Plasma Smelting — robust handling of contaminated and mixed feeds
- Hydrogen Plasma Refining — selective recovery of Cu, Au, Ag, PGMs, and critical minerals
- Cyclone Electrowinning System — final metal deposition
- Environment Control Module — emissions capture and treatment
- Containerized Modular Plant — drop-in deployment at recycling sites
Why Now
- Global EV battery recycling capacity must scale 100x by 2030
- Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) regulations spreading worldwide
- US, EU, and Asian governments funding domestic recycling infrastructure
- Lithium, cobalt, nickel, copper, and PGMs in scrap commanding premium prices
- Public and regulatory pressure on e-waste exports driving onshore processing
- Smaller-format modular recyclers can serve regional collection volumes that don’t justify a centralized mega-plant
Who It's For
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Call to Action
Request a Recycling Plant Configuration. Tell us your feed types and volumes — we’ll model the metal recovery economics and propose a modular plant tailored to your stream.