Extraction process · 7 stages
Copper
Copper is separated from cables, motors and coils mechanically, with no burning and no chemicals. Physics does the work: copper is more than six times as dense as the plastic around it.
01 · In
Insulated cable scrap
Power and data cable, graded by type before it's processed.
02 · Stripped
Insulation comes away
Copper is more than six times denser than the PVC around it.
03 · Granulated
Strands become clean granules
Chopped, then separated by air and density: no burning.
04 · Out
Copper, ready to melt
Granules go to rod mills and refiners as new copper.
Step by step
From what arrives
to what leaves
- 01
Intake & grading
Every load is weighed and sorted by type: thick power cable, thin data cable, harnesses, motors and coils.
- Equipment
- Weighbridge, sorting bays
- Principle
- Grade drives value: bright, mixed and insulated copper are priced differently.
- Output
- Graded lots
- 02
Pre-shredding
Cable bundles and harnesses are cut down to short lengths so the granulator can take them evenly.
- Equipment
- Twin-shaft shredder
- Principle
- Slow, high-torque cutting with no heat or sparks.
- Output
- Cable pieces of about 50 mm
- 03
Granulation
Rotating knives chop the pieces into small chips, which frees the copper strands from their insulation.
- Equipment
- Rotary knife granulator
- Principle
- Shear cutting down to 3–8 mm chips.
- Output
- Mixed copper + plastic chips
- 04
Air & density separation
A vibrating air table separates the mix: heavy copper moves one way, light plastic floats the other.
- Equipment
- Air separation table
- Principle
- Copper is about 8.9 g/cm³; PVC is about 1.4 g/cm³.
- Output
- Copper granules + plastic fraction
- 05
Motors & coils
Motors, compressors and transformers are opened by hand and their copper windings removed.
- Equipment
- Dismantling benches, winding pullers
- Principle
- Manual separation keeps copper, steel and aluminium apart.
- Output
- Copper windings, steel, aluminium
- 06
Electrostatic cleaning
Remaining plastic fines are pulled out of the copper stream for higher purity.
- Equipment
- Electrostatic separator
- Principle
- Conductive copper and non-conductive plastic respond differently to a charged field.
- Output
- High-purity copper
- 07
Quality & dispatch
Copper is sampled, bagged, weighed and documented, then sent to rod mills and refiners to be melted.
- Equipment
- Sampling, bagging, weighbridge
- Principle
- Copper doesn't lose its properties when recycled.
- Output
- Copper ready for remelting
Safety first
No burning. No acid baths. No shortcuts.
Informal recycling burns cables and dissolves boards in open acid, harming workers and neighbourhoods and wasting most of the metal. Every stage here is mechanical, controlled or done by certified refiners, and every load is weighed and documented.
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- Corporate officeNo 12, F Cross, Coles Road, Frazer Town, Pulikeshinagar, Bangalore, Karnataka 560005Landmark: Above Bandhan Bank
- Recycling plant67/P4, Bidadi Industrial Area, Sector 2, 2nd Phase, Shynumangala, Bidadi, Ramanagara District, Karnataka 562109