Rotary Drums Drive Record-Breaking Metal Recovery at Neptune Technologies

Goals

Value Reclamation

Neptune Technologies, Tallassee, AL is a medium sized brass foundry specializing in the manufacturing of unleaded brass water meters. They utilize Green Sand and Lost Foam molding producing castings up to 250 pounds.

In the words of Deric Murphy, Foundry Engineer: “With the soaring costs of scrap metal our team decided it was time to start reclaiming the valuable metal from our slag and other waste streams in-house.”

Challenge

Maximize Metal Recovery

“Our prior supplier was using DIDION Rotary Metal Reclaimer to reclaim some of our material, so I contacted DIDION to see what they would recommend for our various streams. After running some tests and witnessing the excellent results, we were certain we needed to put in our own slag / metal reclaiming system.”

“We reclaimed $321,867.00 worth of valuable brass in three months. Obviously we are extremely pleased with the results.”

Deric Murphy, Foundry Engineer, Neptune Technologies

Solution

The RT Series

The DIDION® RT Series can:

• Lower your operating and maintenance costs from 50 – 80%.
• Increase melting efficiency with higher concentrates and much cleaner melt stock.
• Greatly improve the workplace by reducing airborne dust.
• Crush hard lumps with dynamically isolated patented Crushing roller to recover valuable metallics.
• Automatically recirculate screen overs for cleaner and higher output.
• Autogenously mill dross lumps for excellent reduction and separation.
• Separate and air wash the dust from the metallics with patented dual chamber design.