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Umicore Precious Metals Refining Excellence in recycling October 2008
Umicore Precious Metals RefiningExcellence in recycling
October 2008
Umicore A Materials Technology company
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A focus on clean technologies
A platform for a sustainable future Dealing with natural resources in a sensible way Economic development while taking care of our environment Provide innovative materials improving our quality of life Finding innovative ways of providing clean energy
Recycling of E-scrap, automotive catalystsand rechargable batteries
Rechargable batteries Automotive catalysts Solar and fuel cells Nanomaterials
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Committed to Leadership
#2 World Automotive catalysts for passenger cars
Advanced Materials
Precious Metals Products & Catalysts
Precious Metals Services
Zinc Specialties
#1 World Precious metals recycling#4 World PGM refiner
#1 World Zinc specialty products
#1 World Cobalt & Germanium specialty material
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Strategy: using as little as possible scarce and expensive materials
Goal: continuously increase the re-use of materials in our production processes Products which have reached the end of their life cycle By-products of other production processes
Importance of recycling in the field of precious metals
Aiming to close the loop
World’s leading recycler of precious metals
Recycling
Recovery of scarce metals
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A world leader in specialty materials
Umicore’s expertise in materialsscience, chemistry and metallurgycan make a real difference, be it in products that are essential to everyday life or those at the cutting edge of new technological developments
AuAg
Pt
PdCu
Unique and innovative technology Outstanding service to an international
customer basis Wide range of complex precious metal
bearing materials Efficient recovery of 17 different metals Applying world class environmental
standards
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Umicore has industrial activities on all continents & serves an international customer base
Guarulhos (BR)
• commercial activities, sampling& assaying, refining
• 112 employees
Hoboken (B)
• headquarters UPMR• headquarters IS and P&T• 1370 employees in total,
of which 1260 UPMR
15,800 people 50 industrial locations
8.3 billion € turnover,1.9 w/o PM (2007)
Recyclingof electronic scrap
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e- scrap, a complex mix of: Ag, Au, Pd… (precious metals) Cu, Al, Ni, Sn, Zn, Fe, Bi, Sb, In… (base
& special metals) Hg, Be, Pb, Cd, As… (metals of concern!) halogens (Br, F, Cl...) plastics & other organics Glass, ceramics
high risk of environmental damage iflandfilled or if not treated in an environmentally sound way
e-scrap contains valuable metals andresources
as such represents a truesurface mine for recovery of scarcemetals
Material composition of e-scrap
most toxic & most valuable metals are contained in the
circuit boards
NiPb
Cu
Au Ir
Ru
Rh
Pt
Sb
As
Sn
Te
BiIn
Ag
SePd
a unique metallurgy
Each year UPMR processes around 350,000 tonnes of more than 200 different types of raw materials containing lead/copper/nickel & precious metals.
13% comes from End-of-Life materials and they represent 39% of the turnover.
Pb, Cu & Ni drive our unique recycling process. By using the specific properties of these collector metals, precious & other secondary metals are recovered with the greatest efficiency.
UPMR Hoboken Integrated smelter-refinery
Best available technology focussed on secondary precious metal materials
Metal output: 70,000 t/a, >> 1000 t precious metals
Recovered metal value (2007): 2600 M$ precious metals, others 400 M$
Gold recovery yield over 95%
Highest environmental standards: ISO 14001 & 9001
Minimizing waste (< 5%)
> 1 billion € investment
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Treatment of a fast growing waste stream
Contributing to resource supply security
Toxic control
CO2 efficiency
Closed Loop recycling
Economically viable business
Environmentally Sound Management of E-scrap means:
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We invite other market participants to join us in the development of appropriate measures to further increase recycling efficiency, promoting best-practice quality standards & environmentally sound operations.
... to offer much more than just technical solutions.
A global network of partners…
Thank you
Contact: Christina MeskersThierry Van Kerckhoven
Address: Adolf Greinerstraat 142660 HobokenBelgium
e-mail: [email protected]@umicore.comwww.precious.metals.umicore.com
