Recycling and Remelting Materials from the Electronics, Glass, and Chemistry Industries

Production processes generate residues that still contain valuable precious metals. It is important to recover these materials to keep secondary precious metals in the loop and preserve their financial value. Heraeus Precious Metals specializes in recycling materials containing precious metals from the electronics, glass, jewelry and chemical industries, among others.

There are a variety of different methods for recovering precious metals. The method for recovering your precious metal is determined by its chemical make-up and the impurities that are present. The most important difference is whether the precious metals can be melted down and reused as an alloy, or whether a chemical recycling (refining) process is required to separate into the individual precious metals elements.

Precious metal materials that are returned and have a low level of impurities can be remelted (cleaned) to purify the alloy. If the returned material needs to be de-alloyed (separated from each other), contains low levels of precious metals or is highly contaminated, it must be chemically refined (separated) from the other materials present.

How to Submit Remelt Orders Online?

The online shop integrates your remelting order with possible actual or future product orders.

You can send in precious metals scrap and have your new product produced by the regained material. Please note, that manufacturing new products may require additional material beyond the amount that can be recovered. Once sufficient precious metal is secured, you can place an order for the manufacturing of a new product. Note that scrap material must be received at Heraeus before we can begin production.

You can also place product orders without sending in scrap material at the same time and have your products be manufactured from already existing precious metal stock or have the necessary precious metal purchased from Heraeus. When you buy a product in the online-store, you must decide if the required precious metal will come from your precious metal pool account, purchasing of the metal or a combination of the scrap material and the purchasing of new metal.

You can also send in precious metal independent of a purchase and use the recovered material later for a comparable product. Minimum order size is 50 grams of precious metal. If it is determined that the material is heavy in impurities Customer Service will contact you, as this might be rather a subject of a refining order.