Lead Plates are made from mechanically broken batteries and sold as is. The plastics and acid are removed and what remains is high purity Lead Plates. These plates are fed into rotary furnaces to produce Lead bullions and Ingots.
Our plates have high yield, low impurities and consistent output.
Sources of Lead Scrap
The principal source of lead scrap for recycling throughout the world is lead acid batteries. Scrapped lead acid batteries and the associated production plant scrap represents over 90 % of the contained lead available for recycling. Spent automobile batteries represent around 85 % of the total lead acid battery scrap materials. Other lead scrap materials for recycling include – sheaths from telephone and power cable, lead pipe and sheet, weights (particularly automobile and truck wheel weights), printing metals, anodes, residues, dross’s, sludge’s, and dusts.
Some scrap parts contain Lead, a toxic substance and potential pollutant. Scrap catalytic converters contain platinum, a valuable, recyclable metal. Managing scrap metal safely will help prevent pollution at your salvage yard. Lead wheel, weights and battery cable ends are common sources of Lead. Lead is also found in radiators, heater cores, steering columns, soldered parts (circuit boards) and electronic components. Lead can also be obtained from following scrap.
- Cable Stripping
- Cables
- Battery Scrap
- Battery Plates
- Radio – Mixed hard/soft Lead Scrap
- Racks – Lead Scrap – Soft
- Relay – Lead Covered copper cables
Sources of Lead Scrap
Shall consist of clean soft scrap Lead, free of other materials such as drosses, battery plates, Lead covered cable, hard Lead, collapsible tubes, foil, type metals, aluminum, zinc, iron and brass fittings, dirty chemical Lead and radioactive materials. Review packaging specifications and regulatory status pertaining to shipping with buyer prior to sale.
Radio—Mixed hard /soft scrap lead.
Shall consist of clean Lead solids, free of other materials, such as drosses, battery plates, Lead covered cable, collapsible tubes, type metals, aluminum, zinc, iron and brass fittings, dirty chemical Lead and radioactive materials. Review packaging specifications and regulatory status pertaining to shipping with buyer prior to sale.
Rails—Lead Battery plates
Specify whether automotive, industrial or mixed. Also whether they are groups or loose. The only other metallic that might be included could be Lead connectors. To be free of non-metallic, i.e., plastic or rubber, with the exception that separators may be included. Material to be dry. May be bought on an assay basis or a flat price.
Rents—Lead Dross
Should be clean and reasonably free of other materials such as iron, dirt, harmful chemicals or other metals. To be free of radioactive materials, aluminum and zinc.
Battery Plates shall consist of clean sorted Lead/Lead oxide battery plates and may not contain foreign materials such as plastic, or glass.
Battery Lugs shall consist of solid Lead recovered from used batteries or battery production, must be free of oxide material and may not contain foreign materials such as plastic or glass.
Lead Wheel Weights shall consist of Lead wheel balancing weights, May contain steel clips.
Mixed Common Babitt shall consist of Lead bearings shall contain a minimum 8 % tin.
Lead Covered Copper Cable shall consist of soft Lead covered insulated or insinuated copper wire.
Lead Covered Cable Joints shall consist of soft Lead covered insulated or insinuated copper wire joints.
Lead Dross shall consist of slag, dross, skimming or spilling from Lead meting operations.
The high density of Lead Sheet and its “limpness” makes it a very effective material for reducing the transmission of noise through partitions and doors of comparatively lightweight construction. Often the Lead Sheets are adhesively bonded to plywood or to other building boards for convenience of handling. Current developments include a whole range of composite materials employing Lead Sheet for the reduction of noise in industry and from engines of all sorts. A particular advantage of Lead’s high density is that only relatively thin layers are needed to suppress the transmission of sound.
Lead is a material that, when applied to construction and building, has an excellent behaviour due to its characteristics: water-proofing qualities, corrosion resistance, malleability, sound-proofing capacity, incombustibility and ease of coupling and assembly.
Another remarkable feature is lead resistance over time. Lead in the shape of sheets, as a roof or a dove covering, is atmospheric corrosion resistant because it creates a protection film in the contact of the oxygen and carbon dioxide of the atmosphere
It is an extremely useful material for the construction of protection and water-proofing elements, particularly when attachment is necessary to existing structures, because it is when the material malleability is used to its maximum effect.
It is currently used for the water-proofing of façades and roofs.
Lead Acid Batteries Component
Lead acid batteries are made up of plates, Lead, and Lead oxide situated in a “bath” of 35% sulfuric acid within a plastic casing and 65% water electrolyte solution. Lead acid batteries represent almost 60% of all batteries sold worldwide.
This means the typical Lead-acid battery comprises of: metal grids, electrode paste, Sulphuric acid, connectors and poles of Lead alloy, and grid separators made up of PVC. The battery components are contained in corrosion and heat-resistant housing usually composed of plastic (polycarbonate, polypropylene, or polystyrene).
Types of Lead Acid Batteries
Generally there are two types of Lead-acid storage batteries, based on their method of construction Flooded or Sealed. Flooded (or wet) Lead acid batteries are those where the electrodes / plates are immersed in electrolyte. Sealed Lead acid or valve-regulated Lead acid (VRLA) battery where the electrolyte is immobilized. All Lead-acid batteries produce hydrogen and oxygen gas (gassing) at the electrodes during charging through a process called electrolysis. These gases are allowed to escape a flooded cell, however the sealed cell is constructed so that the gases are contained and recombined.
Reusable Batteries
The reusable material from the used battery is removed and recycled which reduces the needs for raw materials which is originally imported from abroad. It creates a balance payment and cost. In addition to this there can be considerable environmental impact during mining processes such as emission from smelting of sulfide ore, copper, nickel, and cobalt and this can be eliminated if recycling can be introduced.
Valuable Commodity
Recycled lead is a valuable commodity and for many people in the developing world. the recovery of car and similar batteries (ULABs) can be a viable and profitable business. Therefore, the market for reclaiming secondary lead has been growing, especially in developing countries. Many developing countries have entered the business of buying ULABs in bulk in order to recycle them for lead recovery. These ULABs are often shipped over long distances for recycling, typically from the industrialized countries that produce, use, and then collect the spent batteries for reprocessing.
We also receive special types of batteries like gel cell, back ups for computers, emergency lighting, telephone communications, and certain tools.
Remelted Lead Bullions
Remelted Lead Bullions produced from the smelting of Lead Acid batteries in a rotary furnace usually contain 97% to 99% Lead Metal by weight and the remaining 2-3% consists of other elements – Antimony, Copper, Silver, Arsenic, Tin etc.
We currently produce Remelted Lead Bullions and sell to factories in Europe and Asia.
Lead Alloys
With alloying kettles of various capacities 30MT and 50MT, we produce various Lead alloys ranging from Antimony Lead to specialty alloys of Copper, Calcium, Tin, Selenium etc.
With stringent quality controls and testing using our Spectrolab, we are able to ensure high purity and consistent metal composition for our customers.
Our plant is fitted with world class emmission control system which are regularly monitored to ensure emissions are strictly within the allowable limits.
Pure Lead Ingots
Our Pure Lead is produced from the refining operations done on remelted ingots produced from our rotary furnaces. It is a pyro-metallugical process. Our primary feed-stock is Lead Acid batteries. After melting in the rotary furnace, the lead metal is put into the refining kettles to produce high purity lead. Impurities including dross are removed and the molten Lead is cast using a 15MT/Hr automatic ingot casting machine.
Our Lab has top of the range Optical Emmission Spectrometers from Spectro Germany providing advanced metal analysis and helping us ensure consistency in our products, thereby, ensuring purity levels of 99.97% to 99.985%.
