Ferrous Waste Management
Recycling Liabilities into Assets in Mining,
Metal Production and Waste Management
Recycling and Disposal of Industrial Waste
FWM recycles and disposes of industrial waste, extracting both hazardous and valuable products from the waste dumps. FWM can collect, transport, store, stabilise, bioremediate, treat and dispose of hazardous and non-hazardous industrial waste. FWM specialises is steel production waste management, but can also manage waste plastics, paper and board, polystyrene, textiles, rubber, contaminated packaging, absorbents, filter materials, various sludges, emulsions, washing water and oil residues.
After processing, the result is alternative solid and/or liquid fuel, which is a homogenous product composed of the wastes listed above, with or without the content of hazardous substances, which will be recovered by co-incineration in the cement industry.
Slag Processing
FWM processes slag into all types of aggregate products, such as road building materials, asphalt, ready mix concrete, cement, railway ballast, filtration and agricultural products.
Slag with a high metal content is crushed, ground and run under magnets to remove the metal. The high metal content material is pelleted and recycled into the steel production system while the remainder is used for a number of purposes, outlined above.
Benefication and Cold Pelleting of Waste Products into Assets
FWM identifies waste dumps with metal content which are suitable for processing into high concentrate pellets or briquettes. These dumps are typically waste dumps from steel production, such as blast furnace slag (50m tons+), red sludge (5m tons+) or mill scale (100,000 tons+). We also identify waste dumps from mining and other types of metal production. Any dump with a metal content is of interest, on the condition that it can be upgraded to a higher concentration, and then pelletised using our cold pelleting technology, while producing zero CO2. We remove liabilities and create assets.
FWM negotiates a contract with the dump owner to remove the waste and to sell the recycled pellets back to them at a discounted price. Owners benefit from the removal of their dump and a constant, reliable supply of cheap new blast furnace feed stock.
Negotiation of Contracts
FWM coordinates the construction of a processing plant on the site of the respective dump. Utilities are provided by the owners of the dump and for a fraction of the cost of a traditional pelleting plant, FWM can co-ordinate and finance the building of a plant to first upgrade and then pellet the material. We expect to be in production within 12 months. Plants are modular and can be added in line with capital and time requirements.
Quality Control
FWM oversees the upgrading of the material, the production of the pellets and the disposal of the remaining material. The remaining material can be used for making building blocks or paving stones, for which further capital investment is required. The production line is monitored and upgraded to coincide with the requirements of the client and the quality of the input material, which comes from a dump that has been added to over decades, often with little control or documentation.
The End Product
The end product is high concentrate, high value blast furnace ready pellets, produced with near zero CO2 emissions. FWM monitors quality and liaises with the end user for the sale of the pellets for use in the blast furnace. The remaining material is also sold as aggregate or made into building blocks or paving slabs, depending on the local market forces.
Road Construction
Sorting Facility
Processing
High Value Blast Furnace Ready Pellets
Team
Jonathan Verney
CEO
Jonathan Verney is a British Citizen with extensive business experience in the City of London, Austria and Ukraine. He has worked for years in Eastern Europe and has established strong ties with Ukraine before and after the Russian invasion in February 2022. He has a wealth of knowledge of the opportunities that lie in Eastern Europe, especially Ukraine. As a result of the humanitarian aid he has supplied all over Ukraine, he has a huge network of trusted contacts. He has years of experience in the steel production recycling business, especially in the reduction of CO2 emissions.
Olexandr Gurenko
COO UKRAINE
Olexandr Gurenko is a Ukrainian citizen with 10 years’ experience working as Arcelor Mittal’s main contractor in Kryvyi Rih, the biggest steel mill in Ukraine. Olexandr has a degree in Metallurgical Engineering and is highly experienced in slag processing and industrial waste recycling. He has been awarded the Ukrainian Medal of Honour for his work repairing the reservoir and water supply in Kryvyi Rih after they were destroyed by a Russian missile strike in 2023 and is a key member of the team in Ukraine.
David Chapman
COO & CMO Global
Dave Chapman is a US Citizen. He has managed steel mill service contracts both domestically and internationally for 39+ years and has experience with many producers & processes including stainless steel, Foundry/Cupola fce’s, EAF, VIM, Mini and fully integrated steel mills. He has lived and worked in Europe for 10 years and was the senior manager of operations and contracts in nine countries. His focus on safety and the environmental/remediation and recovery of valuables from waste streams and legacy stockpiles has given him vast experience completing 100+ MT steel slag stocks, oily mill scale/sludges from mills, 4.5 MT ferro/cr, gravity/dense media separation, scrap upgrading, pelletizing and briquetting plants.
Garry Ingoldsby
CTO
Garry Ingoldsby is a British Citizen with over 40 years' experience in the steel industry. He has worked in all areas of the integrated and EAF Steel Mills. He holds an honours degree in Mechanical Engineering and has spent several years in R & D focussing on the circular economy through the valorisation and recycling of by-products and waste materials. He is a true steel industry specialist with a wealth of knowledge in the circular economy.
Kevin Linsley
Kevin Linsley is a British Citizen, specialising in the thermodynamics and kinetics of composite (ore/coal) pellet reduction with a BSc (Hons) Degree in Metallurgy. He is an award winning manager of large recycling projects for British Steel in Scunthorpe and Tata Steel in Port Talbot, and has a lifetime of experience in the world of metals recycling.
