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DMP Metals to open non-ferrous plant in Corby

DMP Metals is to open a non-ferrous metals recycling facility in Corby, Northamptonshire, having obtained £5 million in government funding.

Commissioning and the arrival of the first feedstock on site at DMP Metals' Corby facility is due to begin

DMP Metals’s facility will target non-ferrous metals that have been removed from the production of refuse derived fuel (RDF) and solid recovered fuel (SRF) material, and so have already been through some form of processing.

Commissioning and the arrival of the first feedstock on site at DMP Metals’s Corby facility is scheduled to begin this month

The plant will be capable of processing up to 16,000 tonnes of feedstock per year.

In a statement given to letsrecycle.com, DMP Metals’s director Paul Dumpleton said: “The plant is designed to hit a 99% plus purity from an input stream that has up to 30% non-ferrous materials in it. The system is manufactured and designed in the UK with all but the shredder coming from UK industry.

“The project has received international interest, particularly with the difficulty in achieving the quality standards set down by the Asian market requiring processors to reach ever higher standards and quality targets.”

Kirby Lodge

DMP Metals’s facility is being developed on the 4.5-acre site of a former in vessel composting (IVC) facility known as Kirby Lodge.

A planning application for DMP Metals’s facility was submitted in June 2020 and consent was granted in December 2020, three months later than originally targeted.

However, DMP Metals says the project was delivered on time despite the difficulties of 2020. Shropshire-based Sword Engineering worked on the facility throughout the pandemic, having been appointed to deliver early design activities alongside Welwyn Garden City-based Groundworks Services in April 2020.

Groundworks Services was appointed to deliver the design, permissioning, procurements, construction and commissioning of the facility in January 2020.

DMP Metals says it received its environmental permit in line with the Environment Agency guidelines of six months, having applied in July 2020.

Commissioning on site begins this month, as does the arrival of the first feedstock .

DMP Metals

Incorporated in 2018, DMP Metals was established to maximise the purity of non-ferrous metals for recycling.

DMP Metals will separate material by size through a trommel

Non-ferrous metals, and particularly non-ferrous packaging such as drinks cans, are often very light. This means they can bend easily and trap contaminants.

Buyers often prefer non-ferrous metals to be as pure and contain as little contamination as possible. As such, DMP Metals says a specialist process is required to remove contamination on a consistent basis.

Alongside Mr Dumpleton, figures who sit on the DMP Metals board include non-executive director Jonathan Light, also of waste management company MDJ Light Brothers, and Stephen Page of SFC Capital Partners Ltd.

The plant will employ four staff and eight operators. It will handle a variety of non-ferrous materials and is focused on dust removal, separation by size through a trommel, and separation by quality through banks of Eddy current separators.

The process will treat up to four tonnes of feedstock per hour, initially on a 2,000 tonne per year basis.

Funding

Under a scheme launched by HMRC to support British investment in infrastructure, DMP Metals obtained the £5 million in funding from the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS).

The EIS encourages investors to invest in projects and businesses that would otherwise not be able to secure funding through the traditional routes. It does so by offering tax reliefs to individual investors who buy new shares in the businesses. The investors leave the money in the business for at least three years.

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