Maximum Recovery,
Low Footprint Solar Recycling
Our equipment is purpose-built for solar panel recycling, pushing the industry boundaries with every iteration.
Our equipment is purpose-built for solar panel recycling, pushing the industry boundaries with every iteration.
As the solar industry grows, so does the avalanche of decommissioned solar panels. Yet, few businesses can address this problem comprehensively due to significant technological and financial barriers.
Extracting raw materials, especially precious metals, is complicated by the intricate construction of solar panels. Components like silver, used as adhesive and conductors, are often glued into layers, making separation and recovery difficult.
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Panels are large, heavy, and awkward to handle - making storage and transportation costly and inefficient. For most recyclers, the economics are a real bottleneck, making distant collection unfeasible, smaller volumes and higher recycling fees.
High-purity recovery methods, such as hot-knife or chemical processes, demand significant energy, driving up costs and rendering recycling commercially unfeasible for most operators.
New recycling technologies often rely on slow heat or chemical-based methods. Meanwhile, mechanical solutions used by most recyclers employ equipment not designed for solar panels, drastically reducing efficiency and recovery rates.
The machinery required to recover all raw materials from solar panels is expensive, requiring substantial investment in facilities and storage to handle the bulkiness of panels. These high costs often force smaller recyclers to landfill panels or pass them downstream.
Recycling isn’t truly sustainable without reintroducing recovered materials into the value chain. Unfortunately, varying material purity, lack of clear use cases, and high processing costs mean most recovered plastics and metal mixtures are discarded instead of reused.
Refusion Recycling’s custom-designed equipment and distributed business model overcome these challenges, delivering scalable, cost-effective, and sustainable recycling solutions for our clients.
