TSR opens site for new TSR40 scrap product

One year after its ground-breaking, TSR Recycling officially opened the processing plant in Duisburg that specialises in the company’s proprietary and innovative TSR40 scrap product.

The new facility will be able to process up to 450,000 tonnes/year of input material into TSR40. This is a certified, high-quality recycled product that reduces CO2 emissions and cuts consumption of virgin raw materials and energy when used to manufacture steel, Kallanish understands.

The company will continue to further develop the process together with its project partners of research body VDEh-Betriebsforschungsinstitut and steelmakers Hüttenwerke Krupp Mannesmann (HKM) and thyssenkrupp Steel. The research is part of the publicly sponsored REDERS research project. REDERS is a German acronym for “reducing CO2 emissions by increasing the rate of recycled materials in steel production”.

Thanks to newly developed measuring, detection and separation technologies, TSR is able to determine precise levels of disruptive elements like copper, nickel and chromium, and to remove them, the company claims.

The inauguration was attended by representatives of companies like thyssenkrupp Steel, Mercedes-Benz, and the Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy of the state of North Rhine Westphalia (NRW), Mona Neubaur.

TSR Recycling, with 170 business locations and around 4,000 employees across Europe, processes around 8.5 million tonnes/year of ferrous and nonferrous metal scrap.

Christian Koehl Germany