All metals, especially copper and precious metals have the excellent characteristic of maintaining their specific parameters even after numerous recycling processes. The collection and re-use of used metals safeguards the raw materials which are necessary to our industry, reduces dependence on importing such materials and contributes to the sustainable protection of natural resources.

Used metals can be considered permanent sources of energy, as the energy used to extract metals from ore must only be used once and is preserved in the metal cycle. There is an 80% saving of energy for copper recycling compared to the amount used for metal extraction from ore.

Metal recovery and recycling ensure that scrap and other metal waste does not need to be disposed of.

Our company, Montanwerke Brixlegg AG, processes approximately 130.000 tons of secondary material containing copper per year producing about 100.000 tons of pure copper.