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Find our guidance for metal producers in:

England on Business Link: Metal production and processing

Northern Ireland on NIBusinessInfo: Metal production and processing

Scotland on Business Gateway: Metal production and processing

Wales on Business.Wales.gov.uk: Metal production and processing

Our guidance has moved to these websites as part of the government programme to centralise online guidance for businesses. Read more about the changes to NetRegs.

Environmental impacts of metals production and processing businesses

Metals production and processing businesses can have a number of impacts on the environment. Examples include:

• air emissions from scrap metal processing, furnace fumes, oil mists, dust, mould production and casting and cooling processes
• energy consumption by furnaces, air-handling units, motors and drives
• land contamination from accidental spills of oil and chemicals and, potentially, the past use of the site
• noise pollution from materials handling, rolling mills, billet casting, air extraction equipment and vehicles on your site
• waste disposal, such as off-cuts, refractories, slags, sludges, fluxes, lubricating fluids and baghouse and electrostatic precipitator waste
• water discharges, for example contaminated water from material decontamination, cooling and wet scrubbing processes, cleaning and testing.
  

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• cwtogi ar eich costau  gweithredu
• bod yn fwy tebygol o gaffael busnes  o gyrff llywodraethol a busnesau mawr sy’n mynnu fod eu partneriaid  busnes yn rheoli eu heffeithiau amgylcheddol mewn dull effeithiol
• gwella enw da  eich busnes ymhlith y staff, cwsmeriaid a’r cyhoedd
• gwella’r siawns o ennill noddiant  er mwyn ehangu eich busnes drwy arddangos fod eich effeithiau ar yr amgylchedd yn cael eu rheoli’n dda.