Magaldi Group announces dry ash management system

Magaldi Group, an Italy-based company that designs and produces machinery and systems for handling materials under severed operating conditions, has announced the Madam – Magaldi Dry Ash Management system, which can recover raw materials including copper, nickel and aluminum from incinerator bottom ash from waste burned in waste-to-energy (WTE) plants.

Through its Critical Raw Materials Act, the European Union has identified these essential raw materials as crucial for the energy transition and the development of key technologies in the electronics industry.

“To recover these raw materials, new extraction activities are needed, but it may be even more advantageous to invest in recycling,” Magaldi Group says. “Thanks to innovative technological systems, waste-to-energy plants can become authentic ‘urban mines.’”

Magaldi Group says the Madam is a comprehensive solution for the dry extraction and treatment of incinerator bottom ash (IBA) from WTE plants. The Madam system combines two critical processes from advanced WTE plants: the dry extraction process and the IBA treatment process.

The company says its system offers a sustainable and cost-effective solution for IBA treatment that could reduce landfill costs and to recover a larger quantity and higher quality of metals found in the IBA.

Magaldi’s ultra-high temperature material handling products are used in applications across a wide range of industries from steel mills and foundries to aluminum recycling plants, cement factories, coal-fired power plants, WTE and biomass plants.