Romco Metal converts 100% post-consumer scrap aluminium into low-carbon PureCycle™ ingots

A non-ferrous metal recycler from the UK, Romco Metal, has introduced the latest premium quality low-carbon aluminium, PureCycle™ to the global metal market. PureCycle™ ingots are made of 100% post-consumer scrap material.

Founded in 2015, Romco has its headquarters in the UK and a wide range of clients in Africa, where emerging concern about global warming is propelling the recycling industry to break new boundaries.

Romco is a multinational company based in the UK that recycles non-ferrous metals and focuses on emerging markets. Its aim is to promote sustainability by using recycled metal ingots to manufacture a wide range of essential products, reducing reliance on raw materials mining. The production process uses 100% sustainable sourcing, meaning no primary extractions are involved.

What does this mean for the environment?

Romco's process has an ultra-low carbon footprint, with emissions up to 95% less than the average primary aluminium ingot. This means that the process emits only 0.68 tonnes Co2 per tonne, compared to the 15 tonnes of Co2 emitted by the average primary ingot. Additionally, Romco is successfully diverting up to 7.62m³ of waste per metric tonne from ending up in a landfill.

The company's guarantee of 100% recycled content means that the aluminium feedstock has reached its end-of-life and has been brought back into the loop for repurposing. Romco's production process is fully traceable, and all its products are certified by an independent third party.

Romco follows the extensive process mentioned below involving four major steps from procreation to recycling and sending of the extracted aluminium to other buyers of green aluminium:

• PureCycle™ Sourcing: The firm sources 100% of the scrap and feedstock used in its production process from post-consumer scrap. This means the materials are certified to have reached their end of life, thus closing the loop for a circular economy.
• Smelting: The 100% post-consumer scrap is smelted through an ultra-low carbon process in specialist furnaces dedicated to secondary aluminium production. Romco uses CNG to heat the furnaces, the lowest carbon-emitting fossil fuel.
• Quality Control: The firm's chemical analysis laboratory is equipped with the latest generation high accuracy Spectrometer, and in-house engineers and quality inspectors use it to ensure that the chemical composition of produced alloys is 100% accurate.
• PureCycle™ Casting: The liquid materials are then cast into customised moulds for cooling into usable ingots, and then made ready for shipping to manufacturers worldwide, including those in the automotive, aeronautical, construction, medical, food & beverage, and fittings production industries.

PureCycle™ has the potential to save more than 140,000 tonnes of co2 annually from the atmosphere. The recycling process emits only ~0.68 T/co2 per metric tonne of aluminium, saving up to 14.1 Metric tonnes of carbon emissions compared to the average primary process. To put this into perspective, this is equivalent to the emissions of 17,689 UK homes powered, 325,127 barrels of oil burned, 17,082,398,462 smartphones charged, 2,322,039 trees grown for ten years, or 775 full railcars of coal burnt.