Chemical Blending Explained. Chemical blending combines various chemicals, unlike chemical mixing the blend is permanent. You can blend liquids or solids, and the requirements of blending are to produce a new material with specific properties for a given application. When combined, chemicals might react together with potentially dangerous consequences, a good understanding of chemicals is […]
RSBruce have recovered Palladium from KBr Salts for a European pharmaceutical manufacturer. Our client had approximately 700KG of Potassium Bromide Salts from a production process. These salts contained over 10Kg of Palladium. The client asked us to extract the Palladium so that it could be refined, so we did. We successfully extracted over 99.99% of […]
Claim your copy of our best practice guide today! Over the last 35 years RSBruce have completed over 650 plant clean downs and metal recovery operations globally. RSBruce are the company, that first developed effective Nitric Acid Plant cleaning techniques and have been at the forefront of technology development ever since. Our Best Practice Guide […]
Platinum Group Metals are contained withing a wide range of Catalysts used in manufacturing Drugs. The catalysts can be soluble or insoluble. Once the process is complete the Precious Metals can be recovered. In 2018 RSBruce extracted over £1,000,000 from pharmaceutical spent catalyst streams for our clients. Whether the catalyst is Homogeneous (HOMCAT) or Heterogeneous […]
In the precious metal recovery market there are collectors, processors and refiners Most waste companies advertise precious metal recovery in their literature and on their websites. These companies are collectors and will be sending material on to a company like ourselves for processing so that it can then be refined. A processor / pre-refiner like […]
All we think about, all the time is how we can recover more metal. We have been doing this obsessively since the mid 1980’s. Because this is all we think about we have become quite good at it. That’s to say we think we are up there with if not better than the best of […]
Precious metal recycling is not a black art it is a science. Be sure of the amount of precious metal in your scrap, waste or bi-product, through accurate analysis. Any other way of assessing the metal content, involves guess work. Guess work will cost you money! Buyers err on the side of caution when offering prices for […]
When turbine blades reach the end of life they are disposed of by the aerospace industry. In some cases they remain in an internal recycling loop with the engine manufacturer. In this case any precious metal coatings are removed and the alloy of the blade itself is re-melted and re-used to manufacture more blades. […]
Toll Blending is the same as Toll Mixing which is simply where a fee or “Toll” is paid for Chemical Blending or Chemical Mixing Services. We also call this Contract Mixing! Customers use our facilities when they do not have the capability to perform mixing and blending themselves. The reasons may be one of those listed below… Trial […]