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Financial boost for German solar wafer recycler |
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December 04, 2007.
To fund further international expansion, SiC Processing AG of Herschau in Germany has completed a € 53.4 million (US$ 78.3 million) round of financing led by zouk ventures - a London-based clean technology investor.
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Two thirds of Europe’s steel packaging gets recycled |
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December 03, 2007.
Over 2.5 million tonnes of European food and drinks cans and other steel containers were being recycled in 2006 – similar to a 66% rate, an increase of 5% percentage points compared to 2005. ... more
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Kuwaiti MRC wins US Army contract |
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December 03, 2007.
A consortium of Kuwaiti logistics firm Agility and affiliate Metals and Recycling Company (MRC) have been awarded the management contract by the Defense Logistics Agency of the Department of industrial waste of the American army in Kuwait, Iraq and Afghanistan. ... more
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Pakistan’s shipbreakers hit by scrap imports |
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November 29, 2007.
The shipbreaking industry in Pakistan is said to be on the verge of total collapse owing to large-scale imports of re-rollable material under the guise of ferrous scrap which attracts no duty or sales tax, according to media reports. ... more
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Greenpeace slams Microsoft, Sony Ericsson the best |
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November 29, 2007.
Environmental action group Greenpeace gave electronics manufacturers Microsoft and Nintendo abysmal rankings on their efforts to phase out toxic chemicals from their game consoles. Japan’s Nintendo Co became the first company to score zero out of a possible 10 points in the Greenpeace ranking of 18 leading electronics companies. ... more
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Big push to recycle plastic |
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November 27, 2007.
Cold extrusion is playing an ever greater part in recycling of waste plastic, and the UK Department for Business and Enterprise is sponsoring research into development of the machinery necessary for such work. Engineers at Bradford University, United Kingdom, have built a pilot plant and are running a series of trials with different processes, feed plastics, additives, and final products. ... more
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Novolipetsk to control Maxi Group |
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November 27, 2007.
Russian steelmaker and scrap processor Maxi Group will sell a 51% stake to Novolipetsk Steel by the end of the year after a deal to sell to billionaire Alisher Usmanov fell through. Alfa Bank, which is organising the transaction, says the deal would involve Novolipetsk supplying an immediate US$400 million loan to Maxi as well as refinancing debt incurred by its subsidiaries and funding an expansion program. ... more
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Chongqing to invest 'heavily' in recycling economy |
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November 26, 2007.
Chongqing, China's largest municipality located on the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, plans to invest 50 billion yuan (US$6.7 billion) in developing a recycling economy and environmental protection in the 2006-2010 period, a high-ranking official says. ... more
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Japan probes possible price fixing |
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November 22, 2007.
Japan’s Fair Trade Commission is investigating possible price fixing of molten scrap metal by four companies, namely Nippon Mining & Metal subsidiaries Nikko Shoji and Nikko Environmental Services, Mitsubishi Material subsidiary Material Eco Refine, and Dowa subsidiary Eco System Japan. ... more
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UN report complains of low electronics recycling rates |
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November 22, 2007.
Europe must do more to improve the collection and recycling of electronic waste, according to a new report for the European Commission by a United Nations University (UNU)-led consortium. ... more
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Aleris sells zinc recycling business |
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November 21, 2007.
Votorantim Metals, the leading Brazilian manufacturer of ferrous and non-ferrous products, has acquired US Zinc from Aleris International for US$295 million (Euro 200 million) with certain adjustments for working capital and other items. ... more
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Innovative tire recycling project takes off |
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November 21, 2007.
In order to produce gas, oil, steel and carbon black from shredded, Global Resource Corp. is developing its first tire recycling plant that will use its fuel-recovery machinery. ... more
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Bartin acquired by Veolia - Update |
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November 19, 2007.
Veolia Environmental Services has acquired the Bartin Recycling Group, the French number 3 in the recovery and recycling of ferrous and non-ferrous metals. Bartin specialises in the collection and recycling of industrial waste, in particular ferrous and non-ferrous metals. ... more
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Textile waste into recycled cement |
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November 16, 2007.
Aino Heikkinen of Finland has taken the top prize in the European Union's Women Inventors & Innovators awards for recycled building materials used in low-cost housing in Africa. ... more
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Joint aluminium can recycling initiative in Romania |
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November 15, 2007.
Romanian metal packaging recycling company AMEP-Pack and the European Aluminum Association (EAA) Packaging Group have started an aluminium beverage can recycling in Romania. ... more
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New technique to reclaim plastic from ASR |
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November 15, 2007.
Researchers have found a new way of separating the different types of shredded plastic parts from End-of-Live-Vehicles (ELV), In cooperation with Japanese vehicle manufacturer Toyota and German waste technology specialist Sicon, the Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging IVV in Germany’s Freising has developed the CreaSolv process. ... more
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ISRI releases updated 2007 Scrap Specifications circular |
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November 14, 2007.
The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) says it has updated the 2007 Scrap Specifications Circular with revisions to three non-ferrous specifications and the addition of a new specification. ... more
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China surprised by US investigations |
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November 14, 2007.
Recently launched anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigations by the United States authorities into lightweight thermal paper imports from China are ‘mistaken and unwise,’ China's Ministry of Commerce says. ... more
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Maxi Group prevented from bankruptcy |
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November 12, 2007.
Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov will acquire a stake in the Yekaterinburg-based Maxi Steel Group. The Ural Maxi Group, a midsize Russian scrap-metal processor owned by Nikolay Maximov, is struggling with a squeeze on cash, credit and raw material supplies. ... more
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Bartin acquired by Veolia (?) |
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November 08, 2007.
According to French media reports - without citing sources, wellknown French Bartin Recycling Group is going to be acquired Veolia Environment 's waste management division. ... more
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Harsco’s MultiServ signs new contracts in China, Brazil |
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November 08, 2007.
Multiserv, the mill services division of US-based Harsco Corporation has signed one of its largest contracts yet in China, a 12-year agreement valued at more than US$50 million (Euro 34 million) over its term to support one of China’s newest and largest steel operations, Ningbo Iron & Steel. The company also received a ten year contract extension with ArcelorMittal Tubarão in Brazil, for example the implementation a brand new slag processing area. ... more
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Siemens to build integrated EAF in Latvia |
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November 06, 2007.
A consortium led by Siemens Metals Technologies division from Austria was awarded a contract by Liepajas Metalurgs, a Latvian steel producer, to build a turn-key integrated electric steel plant. The project includes a major modernisation of the scrap-based steelmaking process and the construction of an entirely new rolling mill. ... more
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Nippon cooperates with China's Baosteel |
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November 06, 2007.
China's Baosteel Group Ltd. and Japanese Nippon Steel Co. co-invest in a manufacturing line capable of annually producing 450 000 tonnes of zinc plates, China Business News reports. The two companies also reveale they will jointly participate in a dust and waste recycling project. ... more
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Scandinavian Stena Metall to provide European WEEE solutions |
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November 05, 2007.
The European Recycling Platform (ERP), a pan-European Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) compliance scheme, selected Swedish WEEE recycler Stena Metall Group to act as their new General Contractor for Austria, Germany and Poland. ... more
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Sri Lanka promotes waste plastic recycling |
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November 07, 2007.
The Sri Lankan government has started to encourage plastic waste recycling in an effort to prevent the material piling up along the road side and causing environmental pollution. The Central Environmental Authority (CEA) recently launched a program called the ‘national post-consumer plastic waste management’. ... more
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