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The Magdeburg shredder is planned
to be in operation by the second half
of 2026. Meanwhile, the company has
invested another EUR 20 million to
upgrade an existing plant in
Amsterdam, Netherlands. On top of
this project and the transformations at
Duisburg and Magdeburg, TSR has
plans for another three plants to be up
and running by 2030. Blackert: ‘That
would make a total capacity of 1.2 mil-
lion tonnes of TSR40 scrap output.’
SHREDDING 200 000 ELVS
With 170 locations (70 yards in
Germany alone) and 4 000 employees
across Europe, Remondis Group sub-
sidiary TSR Recycling is among
Europe’s leading recyclers of ferrous
and non-ferrous metals, handling
some 8.5 million tonnes of scrap per
year. As well as purchasing, processing
and selling metals, TSR offers a portfo-
lio of metal recycling services for
industrial and commercial businesses
and local authorities.
End-of-life vehicles continue to be a
major part of the overall scrap input.
Some 200 000 car wrecks are pro-
cessed at TSR every year, half of which
go through the Duisburg shredder.
‘Obviously that could be so much
more if we could only get hold of the
four million missing ELVs in Europe,’
TSR40: ‘GAME CHANGER’ BEATING
IMPURITIES
The European Green Deal and its economic com-
mitment to greater climate protection have been
setting things in motion, not least in the steel
industry.
As a heavy consumer of energy and raw materials,
the steel sector is set to reinvent itself. In addition
to burning less climate-damaging coal in blast fur-
naces, it is also important to arm both convention-
al steelworks and electric steelworks against
increasing supply insecurity and generally conserv-
ing primary resources.
In order to tackle all of this at the same time, an
innovation – or, better, a game changer – was
needed. This is why TSR launched ‘a unique quali-
ty’ product making production of steel and down-
stream products ‘more sustainable’: TSR40.
TSR40 is the result of ‘state-of-the-art’ sorting and
recycling processes, says TSR. ‘In-process and final
material analyses guarantee the highest quality, an
iron content of over 98% and no organic or chemi-
cal impurities.’
Clean steel output.
The shredder plant processes annually up to 450 000 tonnes
of input material.
Christian Blackert: ‘The new shredder will enable steel producers and other steel-con-
suming sectors to transform their systems and manufacture greater volumes of sustain-
able high-quality products.’
Inside the facility.
argues TSR Automotive md Christian
Blackert. ‘The good news is, the circu-
lar economy forces all parties to take
responsibility and collaborate. By
working more closely with the auto-
motive industries, we will be increas-
ingly closing the loop, with the num-
bers of scrapped vehicles used in the
production of new cars going up.’
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