Buss & Buss Spezialmetalle GmbH

Buss & Buss special metals – Tantalum recycling & more

Buss & Buss Spezialmetalle GmbH has specialised in the environmentally friendly recycling of metals and special materials for over 25 years. Especially refractory metals and other special metals. This enables us to implement the entire value creation chain – from tantalum scrap recycling to the finished pure tantalum.

For our customers, we take care of the professional disposal of pure and contaminated scrap, powders, solid sludges, chips, crusts, furnace condensates and slags. Our own production of tantalum, rhenium and hafnium through recycling in connection with our global network ensures a high degree of flexibility and prompt implementation of orders and thus also our and our customers’ long-term competitiveness.

Our aim is the satisfaction of our customers. As a competent partner with over 25 years of experience, including tantalum recycling, we support our business partners in the development and finding of individual (product) solutions.

One of our key areas of expertise is flexibility when it comes to incoming materials. Whether tantalum-containing capacitor scrap, rhenium-containing airfoils made of superalloys, oily niobium chips mixed with other metals, tantalum powder with binder residues, indium scrap, hafnium polyheads, off-grade gallium, germanium-containing filter blocks, tungsten-rhenium waste or discarded zirconium heat exchangers. All these different types of wastes and scrap are mechanically, thermally and chemically treated by us and processed into high-quality metals and their compounds.

Customer-specific customisation of the chemical and physical product properties such as particle size, surface structure, grain size and consistency of the technology metals indium, hafnium, gallium, germanium, niobium, tantalum, rhenium and zirconium are implemented by us flexibly, professionally and with a high level of quality.

QM certification for tantalum & rhenium recycling

Buss & Buss Spezialmetalle GmbH and its quality management in the field of processing of rhenium / hafnium and tantalum scrap as well as “rhenium / hafnium and tantalum production” is certified in accordance with ISO 9001:2015.

We use the same procedures and control mechanisms for niobium, zirconium, gallium, germanium and indium.

The quality management standard ISO 9001 is the QM standard with the largest national and international distribution. It is used to optimise processes and ensure sustainable corporate quality.

It certifies the integrity of the control chain, the security of the supply chain, the effectiveness of quality assurance measures, the traceability of the materials used in the end product as well as the permanent further development and improvement with regard to quality assurance.