Avoiding Raw Material Losses

How Briquetting Strengthens Recovery and Security of Supply

Executive Summary
Raw materials have evolved in many industries from a pure procurement topic into a strategic bottleneck. The reasons are manifold: geopolitical dependencies, export policy interventions, highly volatile prices, and growing competition for materials driven by the energy transition, digitalization, and defense.
The EU is responding with the Critical Raw Materials Act (CRMA), setting clear targets for increased recycling and reduced dependence on individual supplier countries.
For companies, this leads to a pragmatic question:
Where do avoidable raw material losses occur within our own production — and how can they be reduced economically?
This whitepaper demonstrates why briquetting addresses precisely this issue: It transforms production residues such as chips, dust, and sludge into manageable, recoverable material streams, improves recovery quality, and reduces media and material losses — without interfering with core production processes.