Reprocessing aluminum cans

With the increase of the recycling rate of cans, the energy consumed by aluminum alloy is obviously reduced. The economic benefits of recycling and reusing aluminum cans are very good.

For example, in 2003, a country recycled 49.9 billion aluminum cans, weighing 670,000 tons. Based on the calculation that each ton of aluminum requires more than 4 tons of ore, this is equivalent to building a new mine with an annual output of more than 2.5 million tons.

Therefore, large aluminum companies interested in the recycling of scrap aluminum will first invest a lot of money in the recycling of cans, develop advanced technologies, and realize closed-loop recycling of cans.

The main uses of cans recycling and regeneration after processing are:

Production of aluminum powder,

Used as a deoxidizer for steelmaking.

Produce aluminum ingots that are close to pure aluminum.

Used as raw material for alloy ingredients,

Produce recycled aluminum alloy ingots,

Production raw materials 3004 aluminum alloy,

Reuse in the production of cans.

Compared with these uses, directly using it to make cans has the greatest production benefits.

Because the aluminum alloys used in cans are all high-quality aluminum alloys, it is obvious that after recycling and remelting, if the grade of the original material can be maintained and it can still be used for its original purpose, that is, for cans, its material utilization is the most effective.

But there is a prerequisite, which is that strict classification and recycling must be carried out and reasonable recycling processing technology must be adopted.