ITA Study – Tin use in recovery cycle

This report is based on the twentieth annual survey of tin users carried out by the International Tin Association (ITA), which gathered data from tin consuming companies worldwide between June and September 2024. 80 companies took part in this year’s study, accounting...

The critical role of e-waste recycling

E-waste is an escalating global issue, driven by rapid technological advancements and high turnover of electronic devices. Due to tin’s use in a wide range of electronic devices and its resistance to corrosion, it also represents a growing feedstock for secondary tin...

ITA visits Spanish tin stakeholders

ITA recently visited various tin industry stakeholders in Spain in order to gain insight into developments in the country. Spain represents a microcosm of the tin industry, with all parts of the value chain represented – from tin mining up to tin use. Recycling is a...

Tin from e-waste: ITA meets with bioleaching R&D team

More than a third of all tin is used in electronics every year. Although around of a third of all tin is recycled, more could be done to recover the metal from waste circuit boards. The Bioremediation Group, part of the Bioscience and Biotechnology Engineering...

Aurubis to invest in more efficient tin extraction

Aurubis has announced that it will build a state-of-the-art recycling plant at its Beerse site – previously Metallo – in Belgium. The new plant will process copper anode sludge using a hydrometallurgical process to rapidly extract a variety of metals...

E-waste tin recovery success for EnviroLeach

Canadian e-waste recycler EnviroLeach have released new results showing that their environmentally friendly, cost-efficient process consistently recovers over four fifths of tin contained in circuit boards. The processed concentrate from crushed boards had an average...

Bacteria recover tin from e-waste

A team at Coventry University, UK have demonstrated the potential to recover tin from e-waste using bacteria. The team’s initial results demonstrate that tin recovery from a printed circuit board (PCB) sample can reach 100%. E-waste is the fastest growing waste...

EnviroLeach recovers tin from e-waste

EnviroLeach is a Vancouver based company that recover metals from e-waste using a water-based solution. This month, the company announced a new technological advancement that allows cost-effective extraction of tin from end-of-life printed circuit board assemblies...