In this way CSM is able to make industrial targets compatible with enviromental concerns by way of: wastes thermaldestruction, organic wastes thermalvalorization and secondary raw materials recovery processes.

This capability is supported by a Plasma Torch, a Cyclon Combustor, a Rotary Kiln pilot plant at its headquarter in Rome, and an Electric Arc facility located at Terni.

A Combustion Station at Dalmine (Bergamo) is devoted to the development of new generation environmental-friendly burners.

All these equipments are of the necessary power (up to 1 MW of installed power) for simulating real process conditions and dispensing of the need for expensive full-scale data validations.

The company is also intensively involved in R&D projects and activities concerning the End of Life Vehicles (ELV) disposal issues and vehicles' Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) aimed at both helping the automotive industry to fit the European Directive 2000/53/CE (recovery and re-use of least the 85% of vehicle weights) and reducing such heavy metals as Pb, Hg, Cd, Cr-VI in surface coatings.

CSM's involvement in ELV issues regards the development of Integrated Systems for Fluff Treatment based on two processes: Volatilisation Rotary Kiln - devoted to turn the Fluff into secondary raw materials and -Gasification Rotary Kiln - for the final energy production.