What happened
Maxion İnci Alüminyum is proposing new waste-recovery operations at its aluminium wheel factory in Yunusemre, Manisa. The additions would process discarded aluminium wheels and machining chips, creating a planned combined handling capacity of 87.555 tonnes a day.
The project is valued at approximately TRY 66 million, according to Enerji Günlüğü. Readers tracking industrial circularity projects should monitor the proposal’s implementation, as the report does not give an operational start date.
One proposed element is a crushing line for aluminium wheel scrap, designed for 5.955 tonnes per day. The facility would also use an existing melting machine, rated at four tonnes an hour, to recover machining chips. That process is expected to provide 81.6 tonnes of daily capacity.
The company’s existing annual output capacity of 1,579,200 aluminium wheels would remain unchanged. A wheel-scrap crushing project had previously been planned for the site but had not entered operation, the report said.
Why it matters
The proposal would add an on-site route for aluminium-bearing material arising from production and for recovered wheel scrap sourced from domestic and international markets, subject to technical specifications. It illustrates how a manufacturing plant can add material-recovery processes without changing its primary production capacity.
The plan also includes a pre-treatment step for chips classified as hazardous. Before recovery, these materials would be de-oiled through a physical centrifuge process. The report states that solvents would not be used, and chips would proceed only after oil content had been brought below 1%.
For sustainability and procurement teams, the relevant operational detail is the split between the two streams: wheel scrap accounts for a relatively small share of planned throughput, while chips represent most of the proposed daily recovery capacity.
What’s next
Enerji Günlüğü reported that the Manisa plant currently employs 955 people. Maxion İnci expects the additional processes to create three further positions.
No schedule was provided for installing or starting the recovery activities. The next material development will be confirmation that the planned units have moved into operation and whether the stated capacities are achieved in practice.
