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International Electronics Recycling Congress
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On Friday, 17 September the participants may choose one of the following plant tours:

Plant tours leaving from the Hotel Conrad Brussels

Plant tour 1:
Campine Recycling, Beerse
Lead battery recycling plant

09.00 Departure by bus to Campine Recycling, Beerse
11.30 Arrival at Campine Recycling, Beerse
11.30 - 13.30 Visit of the lead battery recycling plant
16.00* Arrival at the airport in Brussels
17.00 Arrival at the Hotel Conrad Brussels



Preserving the environment by recycling lead acid batteries? Yes, Campine Recycling does!

With an annual production capacity of 50,000 tons of refined lead and lead alloys, Campine Recycling is the largest battery recycler in the Benelux.

Thanks to its state of the art equipment and high technology - based on a continuous blast furnace production -, Campine Recycling reaches high recycling yields while preserving the environment and ensuring the health and safety of its employees and neighbours.

A well-balanced combination of technology, treatment costs and respect of humankind and environment results in an outstanding customer's, supplier's and employee's satisfaction level as well as a constructive relationship with all other stakeholders.

Come and see how a Belgian company with a tradition of almost 100 years stands today at the forefront of the future of the European metal (recycling) industry.

More information at: www.campine.be



Plant tour 2:
REVATECH SA, Engis and Monsin
Battery recycling plant
08.00 Departure by bus to REVATECH SA, Engis
10.30 Arrival at REVATECH SA, Engis
10.30 - 13.00 Visit of the recycling plant of hazardous industrial waste by physical-chemical way
13.00 Departure by bus to REVATECH SA, Monsin
13.30 - 14.15 Visit of the recycling plant of hazardous waste and batteries
16.45* Arrival at the airport in Brussels
17.45 Arrival at the Hotel Conrad Brussels



REVATECH SA is a Belgian well known company performing two facilities in the South East of Belgium, quite close to the German and Dutch borders.

Triple certified (ISO 14001 - ISO 19001 - OSHAS 18001), REVATECH SA belongs, equally to the companies SITA (GDF SUEZ) and ECOTECH FINANCES (SRIW), to a financial public holding.

With more than 75 people, REVATECH SA manages yearly up to 160,000 tons of hazardous and non hazardous industrial waste for a turnover of approximately 20 millions €. 45% of the tonnage produced after the different treatments are reused, recovered or recycled.

REVATECH SA provides a wide range of dedicated services to its clients, throughout Europe (France, Germany, Ireland, Greece, The Netherlands, Slovakia, Lithuania, Italy, Grand Duchy of Luxemburg) and on other continents (Asia and America).

During the tour, you will visit two plants: REVATECH Division Engis and REVATECH Division Monsin.

REVATECH Engis is the biggest physico-chemical waste treatment facility in Belgium. Three main activities are performed at this location:
  • production of raw mineral materials for cement kilns (12,000 t/y)
  • extraction and purification of metal by hydrometallurgy (12,000 t/y)
  • general physico-chemical activities (up to 66,000 t/y)

REVATECH Monsin performs:

  • a biological sewage plant coupled with a physico-chemical pretreatment (20,000 t/y)
  • the production of alternative fuel for cement kilns (15,000 t/y)
  • the solidification (mainly of flying ashes) ( 40,000 t/y)
  • the recycling of contaminated glass (600 t/y)
  • the recycling (mechanical step) of alkaline and zinc-carbon batteries

More information at: www.revatech.be



Plant tour 3:
Umicore Battery Recycling, Hoboken
Electronics and battery recycling plant

08.00 Departure by bus to Umicore Battery Recycling, Hoboken
09.30 Arrival at Umicore Battery Recycling, Hoboken
09.30 - 13.30 Visit of the electronics and battery recycling plant
15.00* Arrival at the airport in Brussels
16.00 Arrival at the Hotel Conrad Brussels



Umicore Precious Metals Refining operates as one of the world's largest precious metals recycling facility.

We offer eco-efficient recycling and refining services for precious metal bearing materials such as by-products from other non-ferrous industries, consumer and industrial recyclable products (e.g. electronic scrap, spent auto catalysts, spent industrial catalysts, sweeps & bullions).

We recover and sell precious metals (silver, gold, platinum, palladium, rhodium, iridium, ruthenium), special metals (indium, selenium, tellurium), secondary metals (antimony, tin, bismuth, arsenic) and base metals (lead, copper, nickel).

More information at: www.batteryrecycling.umicore.com



* No guarantee on arrival time due to traffic conditions.