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  • Steering Committee Meeting
    Great to wrap up another productive PURESCRAP Steering Committee meeting this week! Every three months, our steering committee, consisting of one representative from each partner, meets online to review progress, align on responsibilities, and keep our project management running smoothly.… Read more: Steering Committee Meeting
  • Consortium meeting in Buttrio
    PURESCRAP consortium meeting in Buttrio, Italy Last Friday, the project partners gathered in Buttrio, both in person and online, for a productive meeting to discuss ongoing topics and plan the next steps in our project.It was a great opportunity to… Read more: Consortium meeting in Buttrio
  • PURESCRAP at ESTEP 2025
    Exiting day at the ESTEP 2025 Annual Event in Udine We are happy to share that Alice Petrucciani from Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna presented the research work carried out together with Danieli Automation DIGI&MET on automated copper scrap identification through advanced… Read more: PURESCRAP at ESTEP 2025
  • PURESCRAP at ESTAD2025
    Last week Alice Petrucciani from Scuala Superiore Sant’Anna presented part of her work developed together with Danieli Automation DIGI&MET within the PURESCRAP project. Her talk focused on the application of Deep Learning technique to improve the scrap quality and highlighted… Read more: PURESCRAP at ESTAD2025
  • Steering Committee meeting
    This week’s PURESCRAP steering committee meeting was a reminder of the benefit of teamwork across Europe. Balancing tight timelines, different perspectives, and complex discussions is not always easy. Therefore, it’s terrific to see how each partner contributes their skills and… Read more: Steering Committee meeting
  • Project progress
    Last Wednesday, our project steering committee came together for a productive meeting to review progress and coordinate the next steps. An important item on the agenda was the upcoming second interim report for which we discussed actions, responsibilities, and timelines… Read more: Project progress


About PURESCRAP

Project funded by EU

PURESCRAP - purity improvement of scrap metal has been co-funded by the European Union with a total budget of 6.2 M euro. The project started 2023 and will continue until June 2026.

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Objectives

The project aims to increase the use of low-quality scrap grades (post-consumer scrap) by deploying and applying best available technologies to reduce impurities. During the project, sensor stations will be integrated in the two separate processing chains for heavy (cut) and shredded scrap to improve the impurity removal and enable a more efficient scrap processing.

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Sensor stations are being installed

The project has now entered its second phase where sensors are being installed in test stations. The shredded station is installed at Stena Recycling in the site Hallstahammar (Sweden) and the heavy station is installed at Swerim in the Luleå site (see picture). The scrap analysed in the sensor stations will be sent to partners VASD and SSAB for validation of the chemical analysis.

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This project is co-funded by the European Union, grant agreement ID 101092168.

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