About Alpha.
We don't recycle our slag.
What Alpha is
Alpha collects industrial steel waste and valorizes it into saleable products, with zero residue at the end.
Most industrial steel waste today is dumped. That's expensive for producers, hard to do in monsoon, regulated by pollution-control authorities, and it doesn't make the waste go away.
Alpha takes the waste in, runs it through patented stages, and ships saleable output back out. Nothing leaves the site as residue.
Whatever comes in as waste leaves as a finished product or usable raw material.
Why the name
Alpha means first.
It's the letter every system begins with. It's where every value chain starts. And it's where we sit in this industry — among the first operating this kind of waste valorization at commercial scale in India.
The name carries both meanings at once. The position we're working toward in the market, and the part of the system we work at: the beginning, where waste becomes input.
Who's behind it
Alpha is the venture of Mangalam Alloys Ltd. (MAL), a 38-year stainless-steel manufacturer in Ahmedabad.
Being a leading manufacturer of stainless steel, MAL has spent decades researching how to handle steel waste responsibly, operating a government-recognised in-house R&D centre dedicated to it.
Alpha is what comes next: taking the lab work to commercial scale, and offering it as a service to the wider steel industry.
Why it's credible
Operating today. Patents granted. PLI approved.
This isn't a pitch-deck venture. The process is running inside Mangalam Alloys Ltd. (MAL) right now, valorizing approximately 180 tonnes of industrial waste each month under patented technology.
Seven patents have been granted (Indian and international), with three more under development. The Government of India has approved commercial scale-up under its Production Linked Incentive scheme. The four credentials below are not aspirations — they are in hand.
7 granted patents
Indian and international filings covering metal recovery, gypsum recovery, slag processing, and cement-less brick manufacturing.
PLI-approved
Production Linked Incentive approval secured for commercial scale-up.
DSIR-recognised
Department of Scientific & Industrial Research, Ministry of Science & Technology.
CBAM-aligned
Carbon-emission reporting maintained in line with the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism.
Market potential
Steel-making is one of the world's largest sources of industrial waste. The appetite for the recovered outputs is global.
Carbon-border mechanisms, recycled-content mandates, and tightening environmental rules across major economies have turned waste recovery from a compliance cost into a market.
Four forces driving the demand.
Tightening environmental rules
Hazardous-waste disposal and landfill rules are getting stricter across the EU, US, and India. The cost and operational burden of dumping is rising every year.
Carbon-border mechanisms
The EU CBAM puts a real price on the embedded carbon of imported steel. Verified low-carbon and recycled-content processing becomes a competitive advantage.
Recycled-content procurement
US Inflation Reduction Act and EU green-deal procurement preferences favour materials with verifiable recovered content over virgin aggregates.
Aggregate depletion
Natural construction-aggregate deposits are tightening worldwide. Recovered steel-slag products and cement-less bricks become substitutes with their own market price.
Bt = billion tonnes · Mt = million tonnes · tonnes = single metric tonnes
Figures are public-record statistics from the sources cited. Numbers rounded for readability.
UN Sustainable Goals
Alpha's work overlaps with five UN Sustainable Development Goals.
The overlaps are operational, not aspirational — each goal below maps to something the process already delivers today.
Industry, innovation & infrastructure
Seven granted patents and a DSIR-recognised R&D centre, commercializing zero-residue waste recovery at industrial scale.
Sustainable cities & communities
Cement-less bricks replace landfilled slag in the construction stream, with strength meaningfully higher than fly-ash equivalents.
Responsible consumption & production
Every input becomes a marketable output. Recovered metals, gypsum, sulphates, and oxides feed back into other industries.
Climate action
Lower-carbon recovery aligned with CBAM and the steel-decarbonisation agenda, cutting embedded emissions for producers downstream.
Life on land
Hazardous slag is kept out of soil and watershed: less landfill, less leaching, less pressure on natural aggregate quarries.
Goal numbering and naming follows the United Nations 2030 Agenda.
See the process.
Patented stages turn hazardous waste into saleable output.