Abstract: The plant for producing metallic pellets from a salt-added magnesium or alloys thereof comprises a metal-melting furnace, a centrifugal pelletizer with a perforated bowl and a cylindrical pellet-collecting chamber. A hopper is provided in said cylindrical chamber to divide the latter into two concentric zones open from below, of which one zone is adapted for collecting salvage resulting from the pellet formation process, while the other zone is for pellet collection. Provision of said zones makes it possible to considerably reduce the content of salts in magnesium pellets or in those of alloys thereof, as a great proportion of the salts get into the hopper and is withdrawn from the chamber as process waste, whereas the magnesium pellets settle down in the other zone and are then forwarded for further processing.