Industrial - Case Study 1

Traces of precious metal in waste make optimum recovery a priority. Acumen provides detailed assessment and tailored solution

Our customer operates internationally and one of its activities is marketing precious metals.

As part of its precious metal processing activity, waste is produced which contain traces of the precious metals. These traces represent a loss of valuable product:

• the company has a number of waste streams. Due to the nature of the process, the waste frequently varies in composition
• the company faced issues in establishing how best to resource the recovery process. Particularly in terms of the time required to optimise recovery
• any solution had to comply with the highest quality and environmental standards

Acumen’s industrial experts spent considerable time investigating the best environmental and cost effective options. Their aim was to establish where time should be spent on managing the inputs to the process and the optimum solution:

• Acumen worked closely with the company’s management to understand their production process, to establish the production treatment requirements and to influence the nature of the waste produced.
• during the review, each load was evaluated against all industry options to help define the best environmental and most cost effective option for any specific load. Our customer now has a range of recovery and waste management options to choose from, according to the specific profile of each individual load.
• The company’s management now spends the time gained developing their own business

Acumen was able to provide invaluable advice to the company and positively influenced their production process to minimise waste production and cost.

Clear thinking . . . .