RECYCLING

Metals, and in particular copper and precious metals, have the excellent quality of retqining their specific material parameters even after being recycled over and over again. Recovering and reusing scrap metals ensures that we have the reserves of raw materials we need, reduces the need for imports, and contributes to the sustainable conservation of resources.

Used metals can be considered permanent sources of energy, as the energy used to extract metals from ore only needs to be expended onces and is preserved in the metal cycle. Recycling copper represents an energy saving of about 85% compared to the extraction from ore.

Recovering and recycling scrap and other metal waste ensures that these items do not need to be otherwise disposed of.

Montanwerke Brixlegg AG processes around 160,000 tonnes of secondary materials with copper content every year, and produces around 100,000 tonnes of purest copper from it.

REACH

Montanwerke Brixlegg AG fulfils all REACH requirements accordingly.
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Actual information concerning the environmental aspects of the European copper industry can be found here.