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11recyclinginternational.com | May/June | 2019
evotus creAtes gold recycliNg huB iN AmericA
uS firm Evotus is con-
structing a new pre-
cious metals recycling
facility in North
Carolina. The start-up
company says the
development will help
recover more gold from
discarded electronics.
The plant in Raleigh will
target ‘investment-
grade’ gold from
e-scrap using chemical
dissolution. Evotus
raised around US$ 1.2
million (EUR 1.1 million) to build a 15 000-square-foot facil-
ity. Initially, the recycling centre will handle computer pro-
cessors and other components containing over 1.50kg of
gold per tonne.
Evotus will start with a capacity of about 225kg per day,
running on one shift. The innovative process copies the
mining industry which uses aqua regia, an extremely corro-
sive mixture of nitric and hydrochloric acid, to dissolve the
gold. The material is then exposed to sodium metabisulfite
to precipitate the metal
from the solution.
Ultimately, it aims to
recover up to 99% of
the gold to produce bul-
lion.
Ceo Derek Ramsell says
the technology came
from a leading European
equipment provider. He
adds that the equipment
will be installed shortly
and Evotus will be ready
to start processing the
first batch of e-scrap in
May. The new site should be at full capacity by the summer.
The company is currently exploring whether to send other
e-scrap metals to local refineries or to install additional
processing technologies for in-house treatment.
Looking ahead, the entrepreneur reveals his company
wants to develop a 40 000-square-foot facility with a
capacity of 30 tonnes per day. Such a large plant would
take in a wider variety of feedstock, such as printed circuit
boards, to process several metals.
Buyers of all Ferrous,
Non-Ferrous Metals &
End of Life I.T. Equipment
Tel: +44 141 440 0424
Fax: +44 141 440 0874
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.jradam.co.uk
Riverside Berth, King George V Dock
Renfrew Road, Glasgow, G51 4SD
Buyers of all Ferrous &
N n-Ferrous Metals
gAlloo’s recycliNg techNology is Big iN
JApAN
Group Galloo recycling’s subsidiary ad rem is building the ‘largest
and most advanced plastic recycling facility’ in Japan. The new facility
will be able to process 40 000 tons of plastic scrap per year. This is
hopes to help combat Japan’s increasing plastic pollution problem.
The site will be operated by Planic, a joint venture between Toyota
Tsusho, Veolia Japan and Kojima Sangyo.
Planic will handle automotive plastics as well as plastics from home
appliances and packaging. The plant will be located in Omaezaki City,
Shizuoka Prefecture. It will be fully operational by mid-2021. At the
moment, most of Japan’s post-consumer plastics is incinerated, land-
filled or sent overseas. The government has recently launched a dedi-
cated recycling campaign to boost domestic recycling performance.
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