DeconX’s economic and ecological solution for the railway industry

  Recycling of end materials
DeconX railway sleeper recycling exhibition stand at the Railtex 2022 trade fair in London

For more than three decades now, DeconX S.r.l. has been providing innovative solutions for recycling and the reuse of materials. For the Italian railway companies, it has up to date taken over and recycled more than 12 million old concrete sleepers. In this way it not only disposed of an old and superfluous waste product of the railway, but created new aggregates of it again. Therefore, it gave a second life to old sleepers.

These aggregates which were produced in the process are of the best quality and can to 100% be reused in the economic cycle and thus support the growth of the circular economy at the highest possible level.

Steel rebars and other steel components of the old sleepers are screened out in the process of recycling which only takes about eight seconds per sleeper. In the end they get directly transported to the next steel factory and instantly join the economic cycle again.
The gravel into which most part of the sleeper turns is also completely free of any impurity. This aggregate normally is being reused as a high quality construction material or can even be ingredient of a new concrete mixture again. Therefore, we allow sleeper producing or other high concrete demanding companies to get their new materials from their waste products. 

Otherwise, it is being sold within a 30 kilometre radius of its recycling site and is therefore also supporting the regional economy with recycled and economic priced aggregates.

This is possible due to our innovative machinery park. As our machines are specially developed by us for these tasks, we can meet all demands. They are mobile and easily transportable and furthermore do have a very high performance. Within one working day the machines can be set up and start recycling on spot. The medium recycling production per day now lies at about 5000 sleepers. 
Our mobility allows us to not only contribute to the circular economy by producing economic and high quality materials out of a waste product again but also to contribute positively to the ecological balance, as with us old sleepers do not have to be moved anymore but are recycled on spot. 

We give waste a second life.

Innovative processing by DeconX.