Recycling of precious metals and rare metals in JX nippon mining & metals corporation

Abstract

JX Nippon Mining & Metals Corporation conducts global business operations in the area of nonferrous metals, focusing primarily on copper and rare metals. These operations cover the entire range from resource development, smelting and refining, to the development and manufacture of advanced materials that are essential for the use of AI and IoT technologies in the society. The Group’s operations also include the recycling of end–of–life electronic equipment and other devices. The recycling business recovers copper, precious metals and other valuable metals from end–of–life home appliances and electronic equipment, as well as from recycled materials such as metal scrap generated by factories. The environmental services business cooperates with our group companies to detoxify industrial waste and to recover valuable metals. The fundamental principle of both businesses is zero emissions, that is, the principle of not generating any secondary wastes. These businesses are contributing to the creation of a global resource–recycling society so that the environmental burden will not be left to future generations.