Fig 1. Slag Waste Fig 2. Resuable metal reclaimed from slag Metal Recovery Increases Savings > > For years, an engineer at a medium-sized iron casting facility in the north central U.S. viewed the hundreds of tons of slag waste from its melting operation as an untapped piggy bank. It was no secret that useable metal was accompanying the slag from the cupola melting department to storage behind the facility, but they were too busy to consider reclaiming the metal from slag. Because it was easy to dispose of, the opportunity was shelved time and again. During the national economic downturn in 2008, a process efficiency team figured the time was right to tap into that piggy bank and realize the potential savings. To guage the metal content in its slag waste, the metalcaster sent a samp

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