Jewelry & Watchmaking
Precious metals are at the heart of fine jewelry and timepiece craftsmanship, but finishing processes often wash valuable material into rinse water. Our recovery systems help manufacturers reclaim those metals, reducing waste and maximizing resource efficiency.
Why Recover Precious Metals from Jewelry & Watchmaking Rinse Water?
Jewelry and watchmaking are built on the precision use of precious metals like gold, platinum, and rhodium. Whether it’s high-end gilding, electroplating, or finishing, these materials add both value and beauty—but they’re also vulnerable to loss during production. A surprising amount of that value washes away in rinse water unless proactive recovery steps are taken.
Here’s how rinse water recovery preserves value, reduces waste, and supports environmentally conscious craftsmanship:
1. Understand Where the Losses Happen
During electroplating and finishing, parts are rinsed between stages to remove excess plating solution and prevent cross-contamination. But this rinsing also carries away precious metal ions.
- Drag-out from plated items brings metal into rinse tanks
- Even small shops can lose grams of gold or rhodium per week
- High-frequency rinsing adds up to meaningful material loss
2. Recover the Metals Before They’re Gone
We offer recovery systems designed for artisan studios and high-volume production alike. Whether you're plating rings or watch components, we help you reclaim precious metal content from rinse water without altering your process.
- Compatible with small-batch or continuous flow rinses
- Recovers gold, rhodium, platinum, and other metals
- Helps reduce dependency on expensive material replenishment
3. Protect Craftsmanship and the Environment
Gold and platinum mining is resource-intensive and environmentally damaging. By recovering metals from your own process, you reduce the need for new extraction and lower your shop’s ecological footprint.
- Reduce metal waste and environmental discharge
- Improve material efficiency
- Promote cleaner, more sustainable luxury goods
4. Enhance Brand Reputation Through Sustainability
Today’s buyers increasingly care about where and how their products are made. Showing that your jewelry or watch brand recovers and reuses precious metals supports an ethical, eco-conscious image.
- Highlight sustainability as a competitive differentiator
- Attract customers who value clean production
- Support circular manufacturing principles
