The Royal Mint

The Royal Mint developed a promising new technology for recovering precious metals and other materials from electronic waste—one of the world's fastest-growing waste streams at 62 million metric tons in 2022. The technology needed to be scaled from prototype to commercial volumes with precise process control.

Rockwell Automation installed a PlantPAx DCS-based solution to enable fine-tuning and scale-up of the precious metals recovery process, providing the process control required for commercial volumes and preparing for global rollout.

The precious metals recovery technology was successfully commercialized and is now set for global rollout, helping offset growing e-waste volumes with a sustainable recovery solution.

• Scaling novel chemical processes to commercial volumes requires advanced process control capable of maintaining consistent results • E-waste recovery represents an emerging market where automation is critical to economic viability • A distributed control system provides the flexibility needed to fine-tune new processes while scaling