Jens Haupt

SMS group Inc. is responsible for new equipment sales, upgrades and modernizations for North American metals producers, and is a world leader in outsourced maintenance services for the steel and non-ferrous metals industry. SMS group Inc., a member of the SMS group family, is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. At SMS group Inc., we are an original equipment supplier offering comprehensive maintenance and spare part services for metals production, continuous casting and rolling (flat and long products), tubes, welded pipes, forging, non-ferrous technology, and heat treatment plants - all from a single source. Apart from traditional refurbishment services for all major OEM equipment, you can also take advantage of our comprehensive field services and modernization projects. Steel production is our largest market, where we supply world class new equipment and actively support operations and maintenance devising solutions throughout the process from melting and casting to rolling and finishing. In addition to new equipment supply, our Forging division has experienced maintenance specialists who focus on closed and open-die forging, powder metal presses, extrusion presses, and ring rolling. New equipment supply, maintenance services, and spare parts inside the aluminum industry crosses a wide variety of products including flat rolling mill equipment, plate stretchers and extrusion presses. For tubes and pipes, our unique broad know-how covers the complete line of processes from ERW to spiral welded pipe as well as seamless producing operations utilizing equipment from cold drawing and pilger mills to piercing mills. It is our commitment to be the Leading Partner for our customers guiding and assisting our customers to make equipment and process decisions that allow them to remain competitive in an ever evolving global market, and serve as a single source for new equipment, maintenance and spare parts that our customers can trust and value.

BlueOak Arkansas is a newly formed company backed by a prominent group of financial investors and electronic waste industry participants, is constructing a highly efficient and environmentally friendly e-waste recycling facility in Arkansas. With a rapidly increasing e-waste stream and an ever greater focus throughout the world on properly managing the e-waste stream, BlueOak is positioning itself to become the leading e-waste recycling company in North America. BlueOak’s goal is to commercialize a technological alternative to integrated smelting for the recovery of high value metals from e-waste. Specifically, BlueOak’s extraction technology will allow for plants with feedstock requirements <10000 tons per annum, thus enabling a distributed network of small-scale processing facilities with better supply access and significantly lower capital and operating expenses as compared with traditional smelting. BlueOak’s refineries will employ state of art technology, optimized for treating e-scrap. Unlike the smelters that use submerged arc furnaces to process ore and other high-volume materials along with e-waste, BlueOak will use a plasma furnace specifically designed to process e-waste. BlueOak will use proprietary plasma furnaces designed by Tetronics, a leading supplier with over forty years of experience supplying plasma furnaces used for recovery of value from waste streams. Most importantly this technology supplier has unique expertise in the area of PM recovery from high-value waste streams. BlueOak Arkansas has established a completely new paradigm for e-waste recycling and metal recovery.

SMS group Inc. is responsible for new equipment sales, upgrades and modernizations for North American metals producers, and is a world leader in outsourced maintenance services for the steel and non-ferrous metals industry. SMS group Inc., a member of the SMS group family, is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. At SMS group Inc., we are an original equipment supplier offering comprehensive maintenance and spare part services for metals production, continuous casting and rolling (flat and long products), tubes, welded pipes, forging, non-ferrous technology, and heat treatment plants - all from a single source. Apart from traditional refurbishment services for all major OEM equipment, you can also take advantage of our comprehensive field services and modernization projects. Steel production is our largest market, where we supply world class new equipment and actively support operations and maintenance devising solutions throughout the process from melting and casting to rolling and finishing. In addition to new equipment supply, our Forging division has experienced maintenance specialists who focus on closed and open-die forging, powder metal presses, extrusion presses, and ring rolling. New equipment supply, maintenance services, and spare parts inside the aluminum industry crosses a wide variety of products including flat rolling mill equipment, plate stretchers and extrusion presses. For tubes and pipes, our unique broad know-how covers the complete line of processes from ERW to spiral welded pipe as well as seamless producing operations utilizing equipment from cold drawing and pilger mills to piercing mills. It is our commitment to be the Leading Partner for our customers guiding and assisting our customers to make equipment and process decisions that allow them to remain competitive in an ever evolving global market, and serve as a single source for new equipment, maintenance and spare parts that our customers can trust and value.

BlueOak Arkansas is a newly formed company backed by a prominent group of financial investors and electronic waste industry participants, is constructing a highly efficient and environmentally friendly e-waste recycling facility in Arkansas. With a rapidly increasing e-waste stream and an ever greater focus throughout the world on properly managing the e-waste stream, BlueOak is positioning itself to become the leading e-waste recycling company in North America. BlueOak’s goal is to commercialize a technological alternative to integrated smelting for the recovery of high value metals from e-waste. Specifically, BlueOak’s extraction technology will allow for plants with feedstock requirements <10000 tons per annum, thus enabling a distributed network of small-scale processing facilities with better supply access and significantly lower capital and operating expenses as compared with traditional smelting. BlueOak’s refineries will employ state of art technology, optimized for treating e-scrap. Unlike the smelters that use submerged arc furnaces to process ore and other high-volume materials along with e-waste, BlueOak will use a plasma furnace specifically designed to process e-waste. BlueOak will use proprietary plasma furnaces designed by Tetronics, a leading supplier with over forty years of experience supplying plasma furnaces used for recovery of value from waste streams. Most importantly this technology supplier has unique expertise in the area of PM recovery from high-value waste streams. BlueOak Arkansas has established a completely new paradigm for e-waste recycling and metal recovery.