Description
Catalyco helps industrial companies evaluate whether their waste streams, spent materials, or process side streams can be converted into valuable metal oxide products.
Our Materials Recovery Screening Service is designed for companies generating or handling zinc-, copper-, nickel-, or mixed-metal-containing materials such as spent catalysts, spent adsorbents, filter dusts, metallurgical residues, zinc ash, Waelz oxide, and other industrial side streams.
Through laboratory-scale testing, Catalyco assesses the technical potential to recover high-value metal oxides such as ZnO, CuO, and NiO from the supplied material. The screening provides an initial evaluation of recovery yield, achievable purity, process suitability, residue composition, and potential product applications.
The service helps companies answer key questions:
Can this material be upgraded instead of disposed of?
Can valuable metals be recovered in the form of reusable oxide materials?
Could this stream become part of a circular raw material supply chain?
What are the main technical risks, impurities, and next steps toward pilot validation?
The outcome is a practical screening report including material characterization, recovery test results, preliminary product quality data, process observations, and recommendations for further development.
Catalyco’s service is relevant for chemical producers, catalyst and adsorbent manufacturers, metal recyclers, steel and non-ferrous industry players, waste management companies, and industrial groups looking to reduce waste disposal costs, improve circularity, strengthen raw material security, and create new value from underutilized material streams.
