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TURKEY - ALIAGA RECYCLING PLANT

The Aliaga Recycling Project is one of a number of plants  planned around the world.  There is no schedule currently set for its development.  The project will comprise a rotary hearth furnace and a submerged arc electric melter with the potential for an integrated upgrading facility. It is planned to treat 200,000 tonnes per year of electric arc furnace dust (EAFD) containing an average grade of about 24% zinc. ARP has the potential to produce 47,000 tonnes per annum of a lead bearing zinc oxide concentrate, together with 56,000 tonnes per annum of pig iron and 48,000 tonnes per annum by-product slag.

 Turkey is the world’s the largest importer of scrap, all of which is recycled to produce steel. There are over a dozen steel recycling companies that together produce about 300,000 tonnes per annum EAFD, and expansion plans should result in more than 400,000 tonnes per annum being generated within three years. Very little EAFD is being recycled and the material presents a serious environmental problem. The company’s recycling plans have enjoyed the strong support of the steel industry and the Ministry of the Environment.
 
ARP Proposed Site
 
 
 
 

In 2007, a 4.5 hectare plant site was purchased in the Heavy Industrial Zone at Aliaga, on Turkey’s western coast. The site is strategically located for rail, sea and road transportation as well as having good access to power, water and gas.

 
The Aliaga Heavy Industrial Zone is the host to five recycling companies producing over 100,000 tonnes of EAFD per annum. Systematic sampling of the EAFD generated by each mill over a period of time has been undertaken. This programme will provide details of grade and tonnage information that will be used in plant design. The samples will also enable representative composite samples to be created and these will form the basis of pilot testwork required to finalise engineering design.
 
In October 2007 the environmental permitting for a rotary hearth furnace and melter was awarded. In November 2007 a 1.9 hectare adjacent plot was purchased for EAFD storage and a concentrate upgrading plant.