In a saturated business landscape, companies often explore complex strategies to gain a competitive advantage in their industries. The foundry business is no stranger to this phenomenon. However, there’s a distinction that sets the leading foundries apart from the rest: they excel in performing the basic tasks efficiently without compromising on quality. These companies refrain from overcomplicating their processes and instead emphasize the importance of doing the ‘simple things’ right from the start.



As more foundries evolve into machining processes to add value to their products, the issue of what to do with machine swarf and chips becomes more and more important. Toll them out or recycle internally? Tolling out can be a viable way to deal with small volumes of chips but there comes a point where this is effectively giving money away and directly recycling the material into the melting furnace can give both economic and quality advantages over outside processed chips.