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Global experts give green signal to Alang |
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January 14, 2008.
Top experts of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) and other global agencies, who visited India's ship recycling hub Alang, have expressed satisfaction at the safety and environment conditions at the world’s largest shipbreaking yard. ... more
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Italy unveils plan to tackle Naples waste crisis |
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January 09, 2008.
The Italian government vowed on Monday to be ready with a ‘radical’ solution within 24 hours on the Naples trash emergency that has continued for several years. As part of the plan, the Italian government named one of Italy's most decorated policemen on Tuesday to tackle the Naples waste crisis. ... more
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Interseroh enters US steel recycling market |
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January 09, 2008.
German services and raw materials trading group Interseroh will acquire a 25% share in the US steel recycling and scrap trading company ProTrade Group LLC, Hudson/Ohio. A last year’s cooperation agreement allows for the share to be increased to 75 percent in the medium term.
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Umicore Group buys Canadian precious metal recycler |
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January 09, 2008.
Materials technology group Umicore has reached an agreement to acquire Imperial Smelting & Refining Co. of Canada Ltd., located in Toronto, Canada. Imperial is the leading supplier of precious metal products and recycling services for the jewellery industry in Canada, and also supplies the US market. ... more
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Alcan expands French alu-can recycling |
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January 08, 2008.
The just newly formed aluminium company Rio Tinto Alcan has inaugurated a new US$ 7 million (Euro 4.76 million) melting furnace for the recycling of used beverage cans and a new US$ 15 million (Euro 10.2 million) trimming and slitting machine for beverage can body stock at its Neuf Brisach site in France. ... more
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Electronic manufacturers launch US tech recycling company |
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January 08, 2008.
Three leading electronics brands have established a new electronic product recycling management company, Electronic
Manufacturers Recycling Management Company, LLC (MRM), to manage collection and recycling programs in the United States. ... more
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New joint venture to recycle UK’s shredder residue |
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January 07, 2008.
A new company in the United Kingdom, called MBA Polymers UK, will recover plastics from upgraded shredder residue. The newly formed joint venture is initiated by MBA Polymers, Inc. (MBA) from Richmond, California, USA and Warrington, UK-based European Metal Recycling Limited (EMR) and will start operation of a 60 000 tonnes per year processing plant by early 2009. ... more
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Paper sorting breakthrough targets flexo inks |
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January 07, 2008.
A field trial will be conducted this year with the aim of fine-tuning an award-winning technology which uses near-infrared (NIR) light in the automated inspection of recovered paper.
The technology was recognised at last year’s first-ever annual European Paper Recycling Awards where it earned first prize in the industry category for UPM-Kymmene of Augsburg in Germany. Sensor-based automated separation of recyclables by means of NIR has been available for some time to classify polymers; however, the same technology is now being harnessed to distinguish not only unwanted materials such as plastics and wood in the recovered paper stream, but also papers printed with water-based flexographic inks. ... more
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Biffa targeted by buyout firm |
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December 19, 2007.
Biffa Plc, the UK landfill operator and trash collector, says it's prepared to accept a proposed 1.22 billion-pound (US$2.46 billion) takeover from Montagu Private Equity and HgCapital. ... more
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Sancon opens plant in Nanjing, China |
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December 18, 2007.
Sancon Shanghai, the Chinese subsidiary of Australian environmental services company Sancon Resources Recovery Inc., celebrates the addition of its new recycling plant in the city of Nanjing. The plant is Sancon's fifth recycling facility deployed in China, providing services to clients' needs in 14 neighboring cities. The facility includes a logistic vehicle fleet and recycling capability catered for post consumer waste management services. ... more
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New book covers problems with recovering and recycling plastics |
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December 18, 2007.
Smithers Rapra, a subsidiary of the US-based independent testing, consulting and contract research organisation, The Smithers Group, has just published the second edition of a book entitled Introduction to Plastics Recycling, written by Vannessa Goodship. ... more
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New JRC study on the prospective for plastic recovery |
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December 17, 2007.
The Joint Research Centre Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS) has published a report entitled ‘Assessment of the environmental advantages and drawbacks of existing and emerging polymer recovery processes'. In accordance with a relevant announcement, the report describes the plastics waste streams generated by different economic sectors in the EU and develops an outlook of the composition of these streams for the coming 10 years. ... more
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Recycled rubber can be incorporated into truck retreads |
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December 17, 2007.
New Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) funded research has demonstrated that crumb rubber from waste tyres can be successfully incorporated into retread compounds for road truck and earthmover tyres at much higher inclusion rates than was previously understood to be viable. ... more
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Rescue deal for Knowaste operation |
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December 13, 2007.
There still is a future for nappy - or diaper - recycling in the Netherlands. Following the collapse last October of the Knowaste operation in Arnhem which specialised in the recycling of nappies and incontinence products, a group of Dutch waste management advisory and consultancy agencies - including Royal Haskoning, Synthese and the EMT knowledge cluster - has succeeded in finding an investor who is prepared to support the project. ... more
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Kobe Steel to start up new titanium melt shop in January |
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December 10, 2007.
After undergoing trial operation a new 3.5-billion-yen (US$ 31.3 million) titanium melt shop will go into full production in January 2008 at Kobe Steel’s Takasago Works in Hyogo Prefecture, located in Western Japan ... more
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Intec’s zinc residues project to take off |
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December 12, 2007.
New technology pioneered in Australia to refine scrap metal waste is be put to the test in northern Tasmania. The Tasmanian Government has granted approval for Sydney headquartered Intec Ltd. to build a plant at their Hellyer mill in the town of Burnie to refine zinc dust from the Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) that would otherwise escape as waste. ... more
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Raymond to release 2008 international legislation guide |
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December 12, 2007.
In January, environmental legislation agency Raymond Communications will release the 2008 edition of Recycling Laws International Country Pages, a reference guide on current recycling, waste management, and related environmental laws, regulations and statistics in 44 nations spanning Europe, Asia and the Pacific, and Latin America. ... more
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Germany's UPM awarded by ERPC |
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December 11, 2007.
The first annual European Paper Recycling Award by the European Recovered Paper Council (ERPC) have been given to the project in the industry category called "Automated Entry Inspection of Recovered paper”. The research project –selected out of the six entries- has been carried by UPM Augsburg Research Center from Augsburg, Germany in partnership with Papiertechnische Stiftung from Munich, Germany and Carinthian Tech Research from Villach, Austria. ... more
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Russian – American steel making merger |
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December 11, 2007.
Russian steel group Evraz will acquire US Claymont Steel for US$564.8 million (Euro 385 million), including debt and net of cash. Through its subsidiary Titan, the Russian steelmaker says they have entered into an agreement with Claymont Steel under which Evraz will acquire Claymont Steel for US$23.50 per share. ... more
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New Alcoa expansion will increase recycling capacity by 50% |
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December 06, 2007.
Global leader of aluminium production Alcoa has broken ground on a new US$22 (Euro 15 million million project at its Can Reclamation facility at its United States’ Tennessee operations. Improvements at their facility in Blount County include a new crusher and delacquering furnace and supporting building enclosures, utilities and environmental systems. ... more
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Corus sells two aluminium facilities |
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December 06, 2007.
United Kingdom | Two aluminium melting facilities operated by European steel group Corus, a subsidiary of Tata Steel, are to be acquired by American Industrial by an affiliate Acquisition Corporation (AIAC) for an undisclosed sum. The two smelters, based at Delfzijl in the Netherlands and Voerde in Germany, produce over 200 000 tonnes of primary metal per annum. The smelter operations employ 481 people in Germany and 475 in the Netherlands.
Internal consultation and advice procedures relating to the transaction have already commenced; the intention is to enter into a sale and purchase agreement only once these procedures have been completed. Following the sale of Corus’ downstream aluminium extrusions and rolling business to Aleris in August 2006, Corus has been looking at opportunities to secure a future for aluminium smelters outside the group.
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Indian recycling firm part of Sims family |
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December 06, 2007.
Worldwide operating Sims Recycling Solutions is continuing its expansion drive by acquiring Trishyiraya Recycling India Pvt Ltd for an undisclosed sum. ... more
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Malaysia's Octagon expands scrap tyre pyrolysis to North America |
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December 06, 2007.
Octagon Consolidated Bhd is teaming up with two foreign companies to exclusively develop rubber and scrap tyre pyrolysis projects in northern America — the United States, Canada and Mexico. ... more
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Johann Spiehs passes into AVE hands |
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December 05, 2007.
Austrian cardboard packaging company Mayr-Melnhof Karton AG (MMK.VI) has agreed to sell its paper recycling unit Johann Spiehs and Co. to the AVE Group - a subsidiary of Austrian regional utility company Energie AG Oberoesterreich. ... more
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New EU regulation for scrap exports |
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December 04, 2007.
A new European Regulation has been introduced to control exports of non-hazardous recyclable and recoverable ‘wastes’ from EU-27 member states to mostly non-OECD countries. It replaces the short-lived and controversial Regulation 801/2007 that entered force in July this year. ... more
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