Mitsui Kinzoku, Pacific Metals Launching Molten Fly Ash Recycle Business

Mitsui Kinzoku and Pacific Metals announced that they will launch molten fly recycle business in Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture by next April.

MTR, a wholly owned subsidiary of Mitsui Kinzoku, will melt and remove chlorine content in molten fly ash and deliver desalted and dehydrated molten fly ash to Pacific Metals. Mitsui Kinzoku will build a $5.5 million dehydration facility in its Hachinohe plant.

Pacific Metals will dry, reduce and dissolve dehydrated molten fly ash at a new facility it will build at a cost of $16.5 million.

The partners are applying for patents involved in the recycle business