Welcome to Steel Dust Recycling

Steel Dust Recycling is America’s newest company dedicated to recovering zinc and lead from the industrial waste stream. We do this by recycling Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) steel dust for a more economically and environmentally viable option than landfilling.

SDR's brand-new facility specializes in the reclamation of zinc and other metals from steel dust generated by the EAF method of producing steel.

Currently, Electric Arc Furnace steel mills (also known as mini-mills) generate more than one million tons of steel dust annually in the US. Because of insufficient processing capacity, nearly 400,000 tons, of that total are not recycled, but are buried in landfills. The SDR recycling facility – located in Northwest Alabama – can process more than 120,000 tons of EAF dust annually, using a technology called the Waelz Kiln.

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Construction Update: Up and Running!

On June 19, Steel Dust Recycling dedicated the Millport, Alabama plant after a brief shakedown run. The plant is now fully operational and processing steel dust into Waelz Oxide and Waelz Iron. State and local leaders participated in a dedication ceremony on June 19:

Left to right: Waymon Fields, Mayor of Millport; DeAnna Morgan, Director of the West Alabama Economic Development Authority; Jim Folsom, Jr., Lieutenant Governor of Alabama; Russ Robinson, President and CEO of Steel Dust Recycling; Johnny Rogers, Lamar County Probate Judge; William Thigpen, Alabama State Representative; Tom Knepper, General Manager of Steel Dust Recycling.