DEFRA holds firm on foundry dust

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The Environment Department is pressing ahead with a ban on persistent visible emissions from metal foundries, despite protests from operators that compliance will be too costly.

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Further information:

  • 1 Draft process guidance notes: 2/1 Furnaces for the extraction of non-ferrous scrap;
  • 2/2 Hot dip galvanising
  • 2/3 Electrical, crucible and reverberatory furnaces;
  • 2/4 Iron, steel and non-ferrous metal foundries
  • 2/5 Hot and cold blast cupolas and rotary furnaces
  • 2/6a Aluminium processes
  • 2/6b Melting and producing magnesium
  • 2/7 Zinc processes
  • 2/8 Copper processes
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