Whether the goal is to remove metallic contaminants from a material stream or to optimize metal recovery and purity, SGM offers the widest range of in-house designed technologies to meet your needs—from individual separators to complete systems.
Operators in the recycling industry face numerous challenges, from efficiently recovering valuable metals to ensuring high-purity separation of materials such as wood, glass, WEEE, and incinerator bottom ash (IBA). Contaminants, varying particle sizes, and evolving environmental regulations make it increasingly complex to achieve optimal separation.
SGM’s advanced separation technologies address these challenges by combining different sorting principles—magnetic, inductive, X-ray, optical, and gravimetric—to deliver efficient, high-performance solutions tailored to each specific application.
Recycling Industry
Recovering and separating metals from complex material streams—such as shredded steel, auto shredder residue, incinerated ash, municipal waste, glass, wood, and WEEE—presents significant challenges. Operators must deal with mixed and contaminated materials, maximize metal recovery efficiency, and meet strict environmental regulations. SGM addresses these challenges with the widest range of in-house designed separation technologies to ensure high-purity separation and maximum resource recovery across recycling industries.
Aluminium Scrap Secondary Smelters
Secondary smelters face critical challenges in separating and refining aluminum, including removing contaminants such as copper, zinc, and stainless steel, achieving the required purity levels for high-grade alloys, and processing mixed or coated scrap efficiently. With increasing demand for recycled aluminum and stricter quality standards, optimizing sorting and refining processes is essential. SGM provides advanced separation technologies, including X-ray Trasmission, Fluorescence and LIBS to help smelters maximize recovery and improve purity.
Mining
SGM provides advanced solutions for mineral concentration across various mining applications and ferrous removal in coal mining, ensuring higher efficiency and improved material purity.
Steel Mills
Steel mills face significant challenges in cleaning scrap, including non-ferrous contamination (copper, aluminum, stainless steel), inconsistent scrap quality, and increased slag formation, which raises lime consumption and accelerates furnace wear. Efficient scrap cleaning is essential to optimizing yield, reducing energy costs, and ensuring high-quality steel production.
The SGM proprietary HMS Scrap Cleaning Line for sheared HMS and low-grade ferrous scrap significantly reduces non-ferrous contaminants in the furnace feed. This results in higher furnace yield, lower lime consumption, and improved steel quality.
