User benefits

• Recycled manganese crossings create a sustainable product by transforming the metallurgic process, logistics, and procurement agreements into a circular economy model. This approach ensures safety of procurement, reduces CO2 footprint, and enhances customer relationship by turning them into suppliers of raw material.
• Challenges like controlling alloy composition and optimizing energy losses are addressed through testing, specialized machinery, and logistics adjustments. Stakeholder involvement and tools like CO2 impact calculators and life cycle analyses support the project’s sustainability goals.

Focus on track availability

• Manganese crossings have the greatest lifespan
• Great improvement in terms of environmental footprint
• The circular economy approach ensures price and volume stability by recycling dismantled crossings
• Recycling manganese not only reduces CO2 emissions but also mitigates the environmental, health, and social impacts associated with manganese extraction, aligning with the company’s sustainability goals.