Recycling Breakthrough! Researchers Save Car Scrap to New Metal

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Up to 9 million tonnes of old car aluminium are produced every year. A new process even uses disturbing impurities – and makes them high-quality metal for cars again.

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A research team at Montanuniversität Leoben has developed a new process that recycles aluminium from old cars without expensive sorting of high quality. How can a high-quality sheet metal for new vehicles be produced from the aluminium of a retired car – without complex sorting and without the addition of primary aluminium? Researchers at Montanuniversität Leoben have now found an answer to this. The results were published in the renowned journa…