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Advanced metals, alloys and recycling solutions for global industry.

IMS sources, sorts and certifies high-performance alloys and metal-bearing residues arising from the aerospace, oil & gas, industrial gas turbine and stainless steel sectors — returning them to the melt as air-melt or vacuum grade material.

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Search by composition — “cobalt free, chromium above 20” — or browse all 15 categories.

  • Nickel
  • Cobalt
  • Titanium
  • Molybdenum
  • Niobium
  • Tantalum
  • Tungsten
  • Zirconium
  • Hafnium
  • Rhenium
Years in the metals industry
15+Years in the metals industryTrading from Eastern Europe into an international network
Alloy grades documented
295Alloy grades documentedAcross 15 material categories with full composition data
Recovery streams handled
19Recovery streams handledFrom coarse solids to extremely fine metallic dusts and powders
Specialist metals
10Specialist metalsNickel and cobalt through to hafnium, rhenium and precious metals

What IMS does

Four capabilities, one material chain.

We operate across the full life of a specialist alloy — supplying prime material, recovering it at end of life, and certifying it back into production.

Metals & Alloys

Stainless steel, low alloy and die steels, nickel, cobalt, complex nickel superalloys, pure metals and ferro-alloys, supplied against specification.

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Recycling & Recovery

Metallurgical and metal-powder processing for streams ranging from extremely fine dusts and powders through to coarse solids.

Recovery capabilities

Aerospace Reverts

Engine teardown, onsite destruction of life-limited parts, sorting and grading of superalloys, and precious metal recovery.

Revert solutions

Tungsten & Specialty

Tungsten carbide, Densalloy, CP-W, tungsten powder and heavy metals, handled in almost all forms of scrap and production waste.

Tungsten recycling

Metals & alloys

The full range, with the data behind it.

295 grades across 15 categories, each published with its nominal composition. Open any category for the full table.
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Industries served

Built around the sectors with the tightest specifications.

Aerospace, energy and process industries run alloys at the limit of what the material will take. We work to the specification those sectors demand, in both directions of the supply chain.

Revert solutions for the aviation and engine supply chain

Aerospace

  • Engine teardown
  • Onsite destruction
  • Sorting and grading
Sector capabilities

Alloys and prime metals for high-pressure, corrosive service

Oil & Gas

  • Corrosion-resistant alloys
  • Petrochemical arisings
  • Stainless and duplex supply
Sector capabilities

Hot-section alloys for power generation

Industrial Gas Turbine

  • High-temperature alloys
  • Critical material recovery
  • Air-melt and vacuum grade
Sector capabilities

Battery metals, thermal spray and additive manufacturing feedstock

Technology & Mobility

  • Battery metals
  • Rare and refractory metals
  • Powder feedstock
Sector capabilities

Recycling & recovery

Metal that would have gone to landfill, returned to the melt.

IMS recovers metal units from the residues of industrial processing — dusts, powders, filtercakes, scales and sludges — and puts them back into production. Recovered units replace metal that would otherwise come from primary mining.
Recovery capabilitiesOur environmental position

Streams we treat

  • Alloy Metal Powder
  • AOD Dust
  • EAF Dust
  • Wet Filtercake
  • Dried Filtercake
  • Grindings
  • Ni Hydroxide
  • BB's
  • Nuggets
  • Mill Scale
  • Fine Mill Scale
  • Moly Oxide
  • Ni Powder
  • Plasma Dust
  • Shot Dust

19 streams in total, from extremely fine metallic dusts to coarse turnings. See every stream

Sorted metal arisings being handled at a recycling operation

Arisings received and staged

Image 1 of 4: Sorted metal arisings being handled at a recycling operation

Our recycling process enables us to revalorise thousands of tons of material destined for landfill every year. This not only reduces environmental impact and valuable landfill space, but replaces metal units originating from primary mining operations.

IMS environmental position

Quality & compliance

A metallurgical laboratory at the centre of the operation.

Whether it is receiving new samples, testing daily feed stock or analysing our production line, laboratory results provide essential data to all areas of plant operations. We work with customers to make sure material is well sampled and tested against their requirement.
How we control quality

  • Sample testing

    New samples are received and analysed before material is accepted against a specification.

  • Feed-stock analysis

    Daily feed stock is tested so that what enters the process is a known quantity, not an assumption.

  • Production monitoring

    The production line is analysed in progress, giving data back to every area of plant operations.

  • Material traceability

    Material is tracked through sorting and processing so its origin and specification stay attached to it.

IMS is committed to a policy of continuously improving quality performance throughout the business, to ensure the highest standards of product and service are achieved.

Certification accompanies material supplied by IMS. Specific standards and scheme accreditations are confirmed per contract — ask us for the documentation that applies to your requirement.

How IMS works

From arising to certified supply.

Arisings are sorted, segregated, processed and certified, then sold to end customers around the world to be melted back into their parent alloys as either air-melt or vacuum grade products.
  1. 01

    Source

    Material is collected as arisings from petrochemical, oil & gas, industrial gas turbine and aerospace operations, alongside our international supply network.

  2. 02

    Inspect

    Incoming loads are sampled and booked in. Feed stock is checked against the declared specification before it enters the process.

  3. 03

    Sort

    Arisings are sorted and segregated by alloy family and grade, so that material is never downgraded by being mixed with a lower specification.

  4. 04

    Process

    Streams are processed into a saleable form — from coarse solids through to extremely fine metallic dusts and powders.

  5. 05

    Certify

    Our metallurgical laboratory analyses production and issues the certification that accompanies the material to the customer.

  6. 06

    Supply

    Certified material is supplied to end customers worldwide to be melted back into its parent alloy as either air-melt or vacuum grade product.

Why buyers work with IMS

Everything on this page can be checked.

No unverifiable claims and no rounded-up numbers — each figure below is countable from the catalogue itself, and links to where it comes from.
Alloy grades published
295Alloy grades publishedFull nominal composition across 15 categories
Recovery streams handled
19Recovery streams handledFine metallic dusts and powders through to coarse solids
Specialist metals traded
10Specialist metals tradedNickel and cobalt through to hafnium, rhenium and tungsten
Sectors supplied
11Sectors suppliedAerospace and energy through to medical and additive manufacturing

How material is controlled

The company

Registered entity
IMS Metals & Alloys OÜ
Registered office
Tallinn, Estonia
Material output
Air-melt and Vacuum grade material returned to the melt
Direct contact
info@ims-metals.com

Insights

Perspective from the material chain.

All insights

Talk to our team about your material requirements.

Tell us the alloy, the stream or the volume you are working with and we will come back with a route for it — whether that is supply, recovery or both.

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Metals, Alloys & Recycling Solutions for Global Industry