Aluminum Scrap Recycling Solutions

Aluminum Scrap Recycling Solutions | UBC, Extrusion, and Zorba Upgrading

Aluminum recycling equipment turns used beverage cans, extrusion scrap, and zorba into clean, smelter-ready aluminum. Secondary smelters, remelters, extrusion plants, and scrap yards use it to raise metal value and cut furnace contamination. Each line pairs shredding or polishing with screening, magnetic separation, and eddy current sorting. Zorba lines are configured around ISRI (now ReMA) scrap grade specifications.

Torontech offers fixed lines for steady, high-volume feed and a semi-mobile system for sites without a permanent plant. Fixed UBC and scrap lines typically reach 95 to 98% aluminum recovery under normal input conditions. Every configuration is sized to your feed format, throughput, and purity target. Optional X-ray, LIBS, and optical sorters lift purity where smelter specifications demand it.

Applications

These solutions serve operations that buy, generate, or process aluminum-dominant scrap. Typical uses include:

Used Beverage Can Recycling: converts baled or loose UBC into clean flake for can-to-can remelting.
Extrusion and Profile Scrap: reduces cut-offs, profiles, and sheet trim to sortable flake for closed-loop remelting.
Secondary Aluminum Smelters: deliver sized, low-contamination feedstock and separate heavy-metal byproducts for resale.
Zorba and Twitch Upgrading: refine shredded non-ferrous scrap into aluminum concentrate plus brass, copper, and stainless fractions.
Scrap Yards: add aluminum sorting to yards that previously baled and shipped mixed scrap.
Remote and Contract Sorting: run aluminum recovery at project sites, demolition zones, or salvage jobs with relocatable modules.

Aluminum Scrap Recycling Solutions Range

The four solutions differ mainly by input material, throughput, and how permanent the installation is. The table below compares them at a glance.

Solution	Input Material	Typical Throughput	Description
UBC Recycling Line	Baled or loose used beverage cans, light-gauge aluminum	2 to 15+ t/h	Twin-shaft and single-shaft shredding (or a hammer mill) opens bales and sizes the cans. Air separation, magnets, eddy current, and X-ray sorting then deliver clean flake for remelting.
Aluminum Scrap Recycling Line	Extrusion, profile, sheet, castings, mixed aluminum scrap	3 to 30+ t/h	A hammer mill handles primary reduction, with twin-shaft or vertical hammer mill options. Multi-stage eddy current and X-ray sorting produce smelter-ready flake, and an optional buffer silo allows batch sorting.
Modular Aluminum Scrap Sorting System	Mixed aluminum and non-ferrous scrap	10 to 50+ t/h	Diesel-powered mobile trommel and eddy current modules set up in hours with excavator or loader infeed. Manual picking stations finish the concentrate, and the system relocates by flatbed trailer.
Zorba Scrap Recycling Line	Zorba, twitch, mixed non-ferrous concentrate	3 to 12 t/h	A polishing drum strips oxide so aluminum, brass, and copper show their true color. Trommel sizing and manual stations typically reach 95 to 99% aluminum purity, with optional X-ray, LIBS, and optical add-ons.

How to Choose the Right Aluminum Scrap Recycling Solution

For baled or loose beverage cans: choose the UBC Recycling Line.
For extrusion, profile, sheet, or casting scrap at high volume: choose the Aluminum Scrap Recycling Line.
For sites without a permanent plant or with shifting feedstock: choose the Modular Aluminum Scrap Sorting System.
For purchased zorba or twitch that needs upgrading to ingot feedstock: choose the Zorba Scrap Recycling Line.
For alloy-graded output or cast versus wrought separation: add LIBS or X-ray transmission sorting to a fixed line.
For the lowest initial investment: start with the modular system or a manual-station zorba line, then add sensor sorters as volume grows.

Why Choose Torontech for Your Aluminum Scrap Recycling Solution

Torontech supplies testing and measurement equipment to laboratories and manufacturers across North America and worldwide, backed by responsive technical support and calibration service. The Aluminum Scrap Recycling Solutions range is built for reliable, standards-driven results, so you can standardize on one supplier as your testing needs grow. Our team helps you match the right configuration to your samples, applicable standards, and throughput, then supports you through installation and beyond.

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Share your scrap type, feed format, target throughput, and the purity your smelter or buyer requires. Our engineers will recommend the right line and sorting configuration. Contact the Torontech team for pricing, lead times, and a site-specific layout.