Collaboration
During its nearly sixty-year history, the Institute of Recycling Technologies (formerly the Department of Nonferrous Metals and Waste Processing) has cultivated a rich cooperation with many domestic and foreign partners in the field of pedagogy as well as in the field of science and research. The most important foreign partners include Tohoku University Sendai, Japan, AGH Krakow, Poland, BA Freiberg, Germany, NME Miskolc, Hungary, TU Ostrava, Czech Republic, TU Berlin, Germany, University of Liege, Belgium, RWTH Aachen, Germany, Aalto University Helsinki , Finland, University L'Aquila, Italy, UFRGS Porto Alegre, Brazil, NTUA Athens, Greece, University of Crete, Greece, University of Birmingham, UK and many others.
In the field of research these were and are mainly Outotec Oy, Finland, Interoceanmetal Joint Organization, Poland, Norsk Hydro ASA, Norway, Rio Tinto Alcan Děčín Extrusions s.r.o., Czech Republic and from Slovakia mainly Slovalco a.s. Žiar nad Hronom, Sloval, s.r.o. Žiar nad Hronom, Sapa Profily a.s. Žiar nad Hronom, Železiarne Podbrezová a.s., Podbrezová, Kosit, a.s., Košice, FeCuPrAl spol. s r.o., Prešov, US Steel Košice, s.r.o. Košice, Kovohuty, a.s. Krompachy and many others.
Offer for industry
- recycling of rejects from pig iron production, from steel production by converting, from steel production in electric arc furnaces,
- recycling of slag from pig iron and steelmaking slag,
- processing and recycling of Al scrap,
- recycling of copper scrap from copper smelting,
- processing and recycling of used batteries and accumulators,
- processing and recycling of waste electrical and electronic equipment,
- material analysis of municipal waste,
- physical treatment and sorting of waste and materials (raw materials) and research in this field,
- experimental testing of hydrometallurgical, pyrometallurgical and combined methods for the treatment of wastes/waste materials in order to obtain metals and other materials (compounds),
- the design of recycling technologies and the preparation of know-how for waste processors,
- assessment in waste matters,
- expert advice on waste treatment and recycling issues,
- training of practitioners in the field of non-ferrous metal production and waste treatment,
- preparation of expert studies in the field of recycling and non-ferrous metal production,
- carrying out elemental and phase analyses of raw materials and overall characterisation of input materials, intermediate and processing products.
Contact
Director of the Institute of Recycling and Environmental Technologies: doc. Ing. Dušan Oráč, PhD.
E-mail: dusan.orac@tuke.sk