Processing Technology

We invest in the most advanced plant and equipment, this is the reason why we are able to process scrap more effectively and produce the highest quality end products. Furthermore, this enables us to operate at maximum efficiency and minimize emissions. We strive to become a zero waste company in the near future.

1. Cable granulation

Our advanced cable granulation technology results in the recovery of copper, lead, steel and plastic from virtually any type of copper cable. Once sampled and graded, the cable is shredded or stripped. Cable stripping is used to remove lead from lead covered copper cable. Shredding is used to reduce the size and remove steel from steel armoured cable. Again the cores of cable are granulated. The granulation process removes the steel and plastic. The plastic residue is processed further to extract any copper left over from granulation.

2. Shredding

Shredding material down to optimum size means we produce a high quality product and allows the re-capture of materials for further processing which would otherwise be lost. We have extensive and high-tech shredders for ferrous, non-ferrous and waste electrical equipment. This equipment includes one of the world’s largest breakthrough technology mega-shredders.

3. Post-shredder advanced metal separation

Once the metals are recovered through shredding, at InterAsia we employ our own technology for separation of these materials using a number of methods:

• Density separation using heavy media
• Magnetic and induced current separation
• X-ray and colour separation

These processes produce streams of additional recovered metals, aggregates, rich plastics and a combustible fraction to be converted into energy.