James Herbert, the Global Sales Director of ALTEK, is a Chartered Professional Engineer who has been involved in the aluminium industry for over 20 years. He has worked for companies on the equipment supply side as well as in a production environment and has expertise in various fields of the aluminium industry including scrap decoating, metal circulation and dross handling and recycling. James has authored and co-authored numerous technical papers on the above subjects and holds several patents associated with technologies for handling and managing aluminium dross.

AlCircle: Could you please explain ALTEK’s journey in regard to technology for the low carbon aluminium production?

Mr James Herbert: Since we were acquired by Harsco Environmental (a global market-leading provider of environmental solutions for industrial and specialty waste streams) in 2018, ALTEK has been hard at work perfecting our technology and processes to provide the best possible solutions for our customers in the aluminium industry.