SiCon Partners with SMS Siemag to Design and Market Shredding Plants

SMS Siemag AG, a division of the SMS group, based in Düsseldorf, Germany, recently signed a partnership agreement with SiCon GmbH, Hilchenbach, Germany, to jointly market SiCon’s scrap fragmentizing plants.

According to the two companies, the partnership will result in turnkey shredding plants with throughputs of up to 300 tons per hour. The plants allow a recovery of up to 100 percent of the metal content, setting new standards in productivity and profitability, the companies say.

SiCon says the facilities will focus on high-quality scrap with defined metallurgical content so as to improve recovery possibilities as well as downstream emissions with exhaust gas systems that exceed national requirements. The company specializes in the processing and recovery of scrap metal, plastic and electronic waste as well as residues from the steel and paper industries.

According to SiCon’s Heiner Guschall, the partners plan to design and supply innovative scrap processing and shredding plants that offer low energy consumption and high product quality to optimize the metallurgical benefit. “We focus on a minimization of maintenance cost and a detailed performance recording,” Guschall says. “Furthermore, we focus on a minimization of the emissions. The system outperforms all national requirements which leads to a new environmental standard of scrap processing.”

SiCon already offers the Volkswagen-SiCon system for the processing and recovery of auto shredder residue. The new systems will include SiCon’s ASR-processing technology, based on the Volkswagen-SiCon process. According to Guschall, this makes it possible for all non-ferrous metals to be recovered in a high quality as well as the high-calorific portion mainly for metallurgical use.

SMS Siemag, which specializes in steel production plants, says the partnership will allow the company to use environmental technologies to improve its environmental performance. Customized process solutions for the extension of the application spectrum of old scrap will be offered with respect to economic and qualitative criteria.

The companies plan to integrate the systems with steel works operations, leading to a new level of economy in scrap processing, the organizations say.

The companies say the plants and solutions will be offered worldwide.