Top 10 Scrap Manufacturers, Suppliers & Exporters in India
Scrap materials account for recyclable materials derived from product manufacturing and utilization. Scraps differ from wastages because they still withhold monetary value. Those are parts from vehicles, building materials, household products, and surplus quantities from factories. Scrap is mainly classified into non-metal and metal scraps with the majority of scrap recycled from scrapyards being of non-metal type. Paper, plastics, woods, and glass scraps fall in the former category. Metal scrap containing iron is ferrous scraps while materials that are void of iron content are non-ferrous metals. Non-ferrous metal includes a large number of metals and alloys such as aluminum, copper, lead, nickel, tin, titanium, zinc, brass, and bronze. Considering a major recyclable material, the scrap metal recycling industry plays a key role in renovating post-production material into new raw materials to create new goods. Electric fuse, gears, metal springs, sheet metal, scrap barrels, crates, metal pipes, etc., are prevented from reaching the landfills. Recycling scrap is an environmental benefit and significantly economical for manufacturers to use. According to the American Geosciences Institute, energy savings from recycling materials is the largely achieved for metals, for example, energy savings from recycling iron and steel is 95%, copper savings is 85%, cadmium is 50%, lead is 65%, and zinc savings of 60% energy.
Indian material recycling is promoted by a national apex association, the Material Recycling Association of India (MRAI). Its prime objective is to pursue with the Government of India to obtain an official industry status for the recycling industry in the country. Steel is the most recycled material among other metals including aluminum, copper, brass, silver, and gold. Their aim is also to develop more steel scrap recycling across the country since the current plants are located near steel manufacturing hubs. Major steel hub clusters are located in the Purvanchal region and it is also required to find new manufacturing steel clusters towards the south for easier exporting. The recycling business of scrap materials includes manufacturing, supply, export, and dealership.
The top ten industries that manufacture, supply, export, and deal with scrap materials are
- Tata Steel Long Products Ltd.
- CMR Green Technologies Ltd., Faridabad, Haryana
- Harshprit Impex LLP, Ahmedabad, Gujarat
- Dalmia PolyPro Industries Private Ltd., Mumbai, Maharashtra
- Ratan Aluminium Recycling Pvt. Ltd., Faridabad, Haryana
- Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited, Vishakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh
- Ramky Enviro Engineers Ltd (REEL), Hyderabad Telangana
- Gravita India Ltd, Jaipur, Rajasthan
- Jindal Stainless Ltd., New Delhi
- Paper Works Trading Ltd., Mumbai, Maharashtra
A brief introduction about the companies is listed hereafter.
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Tata Steel Long Products Ltd.
Not only it is the largest and most popular manufacturer of steel products, Tata Steel Long Products Ltd. currently, but the company also has two manufacturing facilities, sponge iron, and a steel manufacturing facility. The company's sponge iron manufacturing kilns, located in Bileipada, Odisha, have an installed capacity of 4,65,000 tonnes of sponge iron per annum powered by their own power plants. The steel manufacturing units in Adityapur, Jharkhand have a capacity of producing 350 tonnes per day. The steel manufacturing plant is strategically located near the large iron ores reserves. Committing to a sustainable tomorrow, Tata Steel has commissioned a 0.5 million tonnes per annum steel recycling plant that recycle scraps from ship-breaking, construction, auto, and power sector.
CMR Green Technologies Ltd., Faridabad, Haryana
CMR Green Technologies Ltd. commits to non-ferrous metal recycling and expanding its operation Pan-India. Recycled materials in the forms of HRB-TT, cut sheared TT, tense, Zurik, Zorba, Tally, tough Taboo, and Troma are accepted for scrap processing. Copper, Steel, and Aluminium are their recycled materials.
Harshprit Impex LLP, Ahmedabad, Gujarat
Harshprit Impex LLP is an aluminum ingots manufacturer. Alongside ingots manufacturing, the company recycles aluminum, copper, brass, stainless steel, and other non-ferrous metal scrap.
Dalmia PolyPro Industries Private Ltd., Mumbai, Maharashtra
For the last 15 years, Dalmia Polypro has reincarnated plastic in India by recycling PET and Polyolefin plastic waste. Claiming it to be one of the major plastic recyclers in the world, recycled PET (rPET) and Polyolefin (Polypropylene and Polyethylene) flakes and granules serve across, fashion, consumer and industrial packaging, and material handling.
Ratan Aluminium Recycling Pvt. Ltd., Faridabad, Haryana
Ratan Aluminium Recycling Pvt. Ltd. (RARPL) is a leading manufacturer of aluminum alloys and zinc alloy ingots. Their installed production capacity is 500 metric tonnes of aluminum alloy and 200 metric tonnes of zinc alloy per day. The raw materials of alloy production are contributed by procured metal scrap.
Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited, Vishakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh
Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited (RINL) is the corporate entity of Vizag Steel, a Navratna PSE under the Ministry of Steel. It is a famous manufacturer, dealer, and exporter of quality steel products. It registered a turnover of Rs. 28,08 crores in 2021-22, 56% higher than the previous year. RINL exports stood at Rs. 5607 crores in the year 2021-22. The company significantly manufactures its own scrap metals for smelting steel products. Cadmium, Chromium, Copper, Iron, Nickel, Lead, Zinc, and Carbon scrap are recycled in the coke oven batteries.
Ramky Enviro Engineers Ltd (REEL), Hyderabad Telangana
Ramky Enviro Engineers Ltd (REEL) is the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) arm of the Ramky Group of companies. Ramky Group is a multi-disciplinary organization with a turnover of Rs. 4500 crores, it specializes in the areas of Civil, environmental, and waste management. However, REEL provides the largest range of services for management, transportation, and recycling of consumed products. Their integrated recycling facility houses paper, plastics, lead, solvent, oil, and construction and demolition waste. Over more than their 20 years of operations, their range of integrated environmental services involving decommissioning, demolition, and decontamination have secured landfills by recycling 70,000 tonnes of scraps and waste every year.
Gravita India Ltd, Jaipur, Rajasthan
Established in 1992, Gravita India Ltd. is the largest lead producer. It was in 2021, that the company increased the capacity of existing recycling units from 10,200 metric tonnes per annum to 38,200 metric tonnes per annum. Lead and lead products are manufactured with scraps recycled by the company itself. Other scraps the firm delved into recycling are PET bottle flakes, polypropylene granules, and aluminum alloys.
Jindal Stainless Ltd., New Delhi
One of the top manufacturers of steel products in the country and the world, Jindal Stainless Ltd. recently 2019 signed an MOU with a UAE-based scrap processor to recycle a billion worth of metal scraps for manufacturing and processing steel products in Indian plants.
Paper Works Trading Ltd., Mumbai, Maharashtra
Paper Works Trading Ltd. is incorporated in June 2016 under the Ministry of Corporate Affairs after a solid 100 years of business background, for which this family company has evolved tremendously from marketing steel, fibers, food grains, silk, and chemicals to waste paper management and recycling. Paper Works deal in importing, handling waste paper for recycling, processing it to all kinds and grades of waste papers including specialty paper grades, and marketing across the nation and globe. Indigenous paper recycling has eased the burden of ever-increasing waste paper demand. The by-products that Paper Works manufactured are boxboard, brown waste bags, brown shopping bags, envelopes, scan boards, and small packaging boxes.
Conclusion
Recycling scraps not only is environmentally beneficial but proves economical for the manufacturing industry in terms of energy savings. India is among the countries leading in the business of recycling used products. Scrap is mainly categorized into metal and non-metal scraps. Paper, plastic, and glass are common among other non-metal scraps. Iron and its alloy, or ferrous metal scraps are the main recycled materials in building and construction, shipping, surplus production, automobile industry. Ferrous scrap is also the major recycled and exported material of the country. Non-ferrous metals such as copper, aluminum, etc., also contribute to the nation’s export market. The recycling business of scrap materials includes manufacturing, supply, export, and dealership.
FAQs: Scrap
Q. What are the sources of metal scraps?
Ans. Metal scraps are derived from damaged old and scrapped automobiles, electronic devices, gears, wires, building and construction parts, steel making industry, cast iron bathtubs, pipes, engine blocks, roofing truss, drilling and shaping steels, railings, window frames, rails or tram tracks, dismantled ships, etc.
Q. What is energy savings for recycling scraps?
Ans. Using recycled scrap metal instead of virgin ore can yield benefits in curbing air pollution, water use, water pollution, mining wastes, and saves raw materials, landfill spaces, and energy consumption. It also prevents the hazardous disposal of electronic waste in low-lying lands. Recycling of consumed products has saved the nation from spending millions on procuring raw materials from other regions of the world. Therefore, directly or indirectly, energy consumption in the transportation of new material is reduced.
Q. Which association represents the recycling industry of India?
Ans. Inaugurated in 2011 as the Metal Recycling Association of India, Mumbai, was an industry body of metal industry stakeholders which later became an established trade body and renamed the Material Recycling Association of India (MRAI). MRAI is the apex national association representing the Indian recycling industry.
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