In Lorene the scrap composed of digital components, informatics and electronic products, telephone switchboards, catalysts, etc., are duly recycled and processed.

After being sorted out, and crushed, these metals are packed and commercialized (the company´s present production is totally destined to exportation).

Lorene´s laboratory, among the most advanced ones in terms of recycling, guarantees the quality of materials and the analyses, which being done with state-of-art equipment.

In Lorene each material is decharacterized according to the environmental legislation. The substance that cannot be commercially used does not return to Nature.

Returning the noble and precious metals to the production chain has never been as important as it is now, due to scarce mineral natural reserves and to the verification of the harmful effects caused by the extraction activities in the environment.

Lorene obtains metal scraps and discarded materials that can be classified as follows:

Digital and informatics scraps - CPUs, HD, drives, printers, keyboards, screens, mobile phones, and every type of scrap of digital and informatics equipment, especially computers.

Printed circuit boards and their electronic components - main board, video board, automation board, digital telephony board, among others, that form the digital scraps and contain a high amount of noble and precious metals.

Telephone switchboards - The analogical telephone switchboards that are out of use and found in open dumps also contain metals of high commercial value.

Catalysts - Devices installed in cars to reduce the polluting gas emission, the catalysts are the main automotive scrap used by Lorene. It is possible to extract and purify substances as platinum, palladium and rhodium, and return them to the industrial chain as secondary raw material, primarily in the manufacturing of new catalysts.

Stainless steel and other alloys - Metals largely used in the industry are processed by Lorene and returned to the production chain.

The material worked on by Lorene is transformed in several types of noble and precious metals, as follows:

Stainless steel
Bronze
Copper
Chromium
Tin
Nickel
Brass
Gold
Palladium
Silver
Platinum
Rhodium

Some examples:

- manufacture of computers and their components;
- several applications of the electronic industry;
- production of new catalysts for the automobile industry.