HydroMet is an Australian owned industrial residue treatment and recycling company. The company is listed on the Australian Stock Exchange with over with over 2,600 shareholders. It has pioneered in environmental processing technology in Australia with its unique treatment and recycling of industrial waste residue offering an environmental solution to often difficult heavy industry waste disposal problems.The end product of the HydroMet recycling process can be either a value added metal or metal chemical for sale to both domestic and export markets benefiting both the environment and the Australian economy.In February 2008, the board of HydroMet announced approval to triple our recycling capacity from 12,000 tonnes to 36,000 tonnes per annum of used lead acid batteries at its Unanderra battery recycling facility. HydroMet now has capacity to recycle up to one-third of the estimated 90,000 tonnes to 110,000 tonnes of lead acid batteries used in Australia. This enables HydroMet to make a dramatic positive impact on Australia’s environmental footprint by both recycling the battery components and producing valuable products for consumption in the lead metal, plastic and acid recycling industries.Learn more about this state of the art process by going to Lead Production.HydroMet provides processing solutions to recover and recycle metal contaminants from a range of industrial residues to manufacture of a range of metal chemicals for both agricultural and industrial applications.