Campine expands its recycling activities with an innovative process to recycle chemicals directly out of post-consumer and industrial metal waste. Campine has 2 main activities: the recycling of lead from car batteries and the production of antimony trioxide, a chemical additive. Antimony trioxide makes plastics and textiles flame retardant. It is produced out of antimony metal, which mainly comes from mining activities in China, Central and Southeast Asia. Beside these main activities, Campine’s Metals Recycling division has been developing a business to extract or concentrate other metals such as tin, antimony, silver and gold from industrial waste streams. Campine has now developed an innovative process to transform antimony containing fractions in industrial waste directly into antimony trioxide. The company invests €4.9 million in this. The innovation has been recognized by the Flemish government, who officially awarded an investment subsidy of €1 million during its council meeting on Friday January 8th. The government confirms herewith the sustainable character of the innovation and the strive to develop circular processes in Flanders. The new process to recycle antimony is already in its start-up phase and it will already contribute to Campine’s results in 2021.