A truck pulls in piled high with twisted metal. The scrap stays on board while a laser takes up to 1,000 readings a second.
Hans Van-der-Weijde presented the laser-AI scrap scanner at the Materials Engineering Event. Tata Steel and its partners in the European DiGreeS project are developing it to answer a practical question. Can we use this load for the steel we’re making today?
Take copper. Once it’s in the melt, it’s hard to remove. A load that works for one grade of steel might contain too much copper for another. Find that out at the gate and you can still decide what to blend it with.
A few minutes in a drive-through could help decide what a truckload of scrap becomes next.