Does your metals business require an EASR IA permit?
Your business may require an EASR Industrial Activity (IA) permit from SEPA. For example, you will need a permit if your business has a production capacity above a certain level or if you use certain hazardous substances.
If your business is an installation, you will need an EASR IA permit from SEPA.
An installation is a stationary technical unit, such as a self-contained building, permanent structure or fixed plant, used for activities listed in the regulations.
Metal businesses industrial activities
These are industrial activities that have an impact on the environment and are listed in the EASR regulations.
These include:
- production of pig iron or steel
- metal processing of ferrous metals by various methods
- hot rolling mills with capacity of more than 20 tonnes of crude steel per hour
- application of protective fused metal coats with an input of more than 2 tonnes of crude steel per hour
- foundries with a production capacity exceeding 20 tonnes per day
- casting ferrous metal at a foundry with a production capacity of more than 20 tonnes per day
- casting iron, steel, or any ferrous alloy from deliveries of 50 tonnes or more of molten metal
- melting, refining and casting foundry more than 5 tonnes
- galvanising zinc and zinc alloys
- die-casting zinc, aluminium, magnesium or their alloys
- surface treatment of metals or plastic materials in vats with a volume of more than 30 cubic metres
- surface treating materials using cadmium or its compounds where the activity may result in the release of cadmium or its compounds
- surface treatment of metal that is likely to result in the release into air of any acid-forming oxide of nitrogen
What you must do
If your installation carries out listed activities, you will need a permit from SEPA and you will need to comply with the conditions of the permit.
Contact your environmental regulator
If you are unsure whether you are affected by EASR Industrial Activity permits, contact SEPA.
How to apply for a permit
Further information