Metaleurop lead smelter

With the bath smelting technology, Metaleurop Weser Blei now owns and operates a modem lead smelter, which gives Metaleurop a competitive advance in terms of environmental protection and recycling capacity. Metaleurop Weser Blei now produces at design capacity. 

Key reasons for the selection of Ausmelt technology for lead smelting by Metaleurop, Tsumeb and Korea Zinc are the excellent environmental performance, capital and operating cost profiles and process flexibility provided in a compact high intensity smelter system. 

In Europe, a small number of large custom smelters (Metaleurop, MetaUgesellschaft and Nuova Samim) are responsible for the majority of lead concentrate purchases, sometimes holding equity interests in supplying mines. Similarly, three Japanese smelters account for almost the entire custom concentrate imports into Japan. Asarco (in the USA) has custom smelted... 

A number of companies in Europe (Metallgeseiischafc, Metaleurop, Nuova Samim, for example) have important secondary interests in addition to primary smelting activities, and have been actively developing these. So too has MIM, through ownership links with Britannia Refined Metals in the UK. In North America, while several primary smelters use lead scrap feed. Doe Run s Buick secondary plant (opened in 1991) was the first example of direct primary producer involvement in recycling facilities. Emissions from this plant are apparently 60 per cent less than at traditional secondary lead facilities. 

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