### Key Figures

 

**4****Waste categories accepted from surface treatment lines**



 

 

 

 

 

 



 

**120kMT/y****Hazardous waste treatment capacity at BeAAT**



 

 

 

 

 

 



 

**3** **Phases handled — liquid, sludge and solid**



 

 

 

 

 

 



 

**1****Contract, two plants, one point of accountability**



 

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

 





**The challenge**

### Spent baths are the most aggressive liquid waste a workshop produces.

Surface treatment concentrates hazard by design. Pickling and etching acids, degreasing alkalis, plating baths carrying chromium, nickel, zinc, copper and cadmium, cyanide-bearing solutions, and the hydroxide sludges left behind by on-site effluent plants. Every one of them is corrosive, metal-loaded, or both.

These streams cannot be blended, cannot be neutralised in a yard, and cannot sit in drums indefinitely. Magma accepts them as segregated consignments at BeAAT, where liquid, sludge and solid fractions each have a defined route — so a workshop deals with one operator instead of chasing capacity per bath.



 

 

 



 

 

 

 





**Across the planet**  
**Where we come in**



 

 

 



**01 — PRE-TREATMENT**  
**Degreasing & pickling**  
Spent alkaline degreasers, solvent cleaning residues, pickling and etching acids loaded with dissolved iron and scale.



 

 

 

 

 

 



 

**02 — COATING**  
**Plating, anodising & painting**  
Exhausted plating and anodising baths, chromating and phosphating solutions, cyanide-bearing electrolytes, paint sludges and overspray.



 

 

 

 

 

 



 

**03 — RINSE & EFFLUENT**  
**Water treatment residues**  
Rinse waters, metal hydroxide sludges and filter cakes from on-site effluent plants, spent ion exchange resins and filter media.



 

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

 





**Accepted waste streams**  
**Surface treatment & finishing**

Not exhaustive. Bath chemistry varies by line — send the characterisation and we will confirm the route and packaging.



 

 

 



 

 

| Category | Hazardous waste generated |
|---|---|
| **Acids** | Needles & blades in rigid containers, blood-soiled dressings & tubing, culture media, contaminated PPE |
| **Alkalis & Degreasers** | Expired & recalled medicines, off-spec product, cytotoxic & cytostatic residues, controlled substances under witnessed destruction |
| **Plating Baths** | Spent solvents & reagents, formaldehyde & fixatives, stains & buffers, acids & bases, imaging fixer & developer |
| **Sludges** | Mercury from legacy thermometers & sphygmomanometers, dental amalgam, batteries, lead shielding |
| **Solids & Media** | Aerosols & gas cartridges, disinfectant & cleaning chemical residues, contaminated packaging, soiled absorbents & textiles |







 

 

 



 

 

 

 





**Treatment Routes**

**Where your waste is treated**

Surface treatment waste is handled at BeAAT. Where a stream also carries radioactivity, our NORM plant takes it under the same contract.



 

 

 

 

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 [Hazardous Waste Treatment](/hazardous-waste-treatment "Hazardous Waste Treatment") 

 Our first facility is dedicated to the recycling, processing and safe disposal of hazardous waste - designed to treat liquid, sludge and solid waste generated by ADNOC and other industries across the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. 

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

 

 [Explore HW](/hazardous-waste-treatment) ](/BeAAT)

 

 

 

 

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 [Radioactive Waste Treatment - NORM](/Naturally-Occurring-Radioactive-Material-NORM "Radioactive Waste Treatment - NORM") 

 A one-of-a-kind plant specialising in the treatment, processing and disposal of waste containing radioactive elements - focused on naturally occurring sludge from ADNOC`s onshore and offshore drilling operations. 

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

 

 [Explore NORM](/Naturally-Occurring-Radioactive-Material-NORM) ](/norm)

 

 

 

 

 

 





#### **How we work with finishing shops**

#### **From bath chemistry to certificate of disposal.**



 

 

 



 

 

**Characterisation**

Bath analysis to confirm metal loading, pH, cyanide and chromium VI content, and the compatible treatment route.



 

 

 

 

 

 





**Segregated collection**

Specified packaging per stream, acids kept apart from cyanides, IBC or bulk uplift with manifests per consignment.



 

 

 

 

 

 





**Treatment**

Neutralisation, processing or final disposal at BeAAT, with metal recovery prioritised where the bath allows.



 

 

 

 

 

 





**Traceability**

Documented chain of custody and disposal records for your HSE and regulatory reporting.



 

 

 

 

 

 





 

 

 

 





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