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Enviro Intends to Realize Tire Recycling Facility in Uddevalla

Sweden-based company Scandinavian Enviro Systems has been granted an environmental permit for the planned recycling plant in Uddevalla (province Västra Götalands Län). As the company previously has announced, the application pertained to the establishment of a recycling plant on an industrial site in the Lillesjö district of Uddevalla Municipality. The facility would have the capacity […]

New Sorting System: Würzburger Recycling GmbH (WRG) Kicks Off!

The challenge: design and install a new commercial waste sorting plant in a relatively small space in an existing hall. The result: Europress Umwelttechnik accepted the challenge and successfully implemented the system within a short time! “The development of the recommended solution, the project planning as well as the subsequent realization as a general contractor […]

SMS Group Recorded High Level of Order Intake

With an 86 percent increase, Germany-based SMS group almost doubled its order intake to reach 3,507 million Euro in the 2021 financial year, recording the highest level in ten years. According to the company, the reasons for this substantial rise are catch-up effects in the wake of the previous year’s slump triggered by the Covid-19 […]

Norway: Tom Wilhelmsen Invests in New C&D Recycling Plant

The soils wash plant will be the fourth C&D waste recycling plant in Norway engineered by CDE, a provider of wet processing equipment for recycling operations quarries, and mines on the global market. Massebalanse Norge AS, the waste management division of Tom Wilhelmsen AS, is set to commission the new CDE waste recycling plant in […]

UAE: New Battery Recycling Facility

As reported by Arabic and Indian media, Royal Gulf Industries – a subsidiary of Hyderabad Castings and part of Indian Nakhat Group – will construct a battery recycling center in Ras Al Khaimah Economic Zone. The company would invest about 17 million US-Dollar (converted) to build the country’s first environmentally safe automotive battery recycling facility. […]

BB Engineering at the K Show 2022

As a sub-exhibitor of Oerlikon, BB Engineering will present itself as an expert in extrusion, mixing and filtration as well as an innovator for PET recycling at the K Trade Fair for Plastics and Rubber (19 – 26 October 2022, Hall 1, Booth 1D10) – and at the company’s site in Remscheid. Plastics competence extruders, […]

New Initiative to Foster Recovery of Phosphorus in Germany

In June, the company EasyMining Germany informed that – together with several other companies – it has created an initiative “Sauberer Phosphor 2029” (Clean Phosphorus). The initiative will work to champion and advocate for phosphorus recovery and recycling processes in Germany that are environmentally friendly and sustainable, the firm, which is owned by the Swedish […]

“We Do Not Sell Machines, But Solutions”

Mauro Panizzolo explains in an interview with GLOBAL RECYCLING, how the Italian company was able to interpret the needs of the metal recycling market. The metal recovery sector is constantly evolving. On the one hand, increasingly complex scrap is generated; on the other hand, the market requires increasingly refined products to be reintroduced into the […]

Stora Enso and Northvolt Work on Wood-Based Batteries

Swedish-Finnish Stora Enso and Swedish Northvolt have entered into a Joint Development Agreement to create a sustainable battery featuring an anode produced using lignin-based hard carbon produced from Nordic forest wood. The aim is to develop the world’s first industrialized battery featuring anode sourced entirely from European raw materials, lowering both the carbon footprint and […]

Goal: Closing the Loop on Polypropylene

NEXTLOOPP is partnering with beauty company L’Oréal in its project to create food-grade PPristine and INRT-grade recycled Polypropylene (rPP) – a polymer developed for packaging that requires no odor and no migration challenges – from post-consumer packaging waste. NEXTLOOPP is an award-winning project launched by Nextek Ltd in October 2020. The company recently hit the […]

The Netherlands: AVR and HaloSep Cooperate

Dutch AVR has signed an agreement with Swedish HaloSep AB to explore the feasibility of locally recycling flue gas treatment material. The company has decided to evaluate the possibilities to locally manage its hazardous flue gas cleaning residues through partnership with the Swedish firm HaloSep AB, a subsidiary of Stena Metall Group. Its process is […]

Weltec Biopower Builds Biogas Plant in Taiwan

Construction is scheduled to begin in 2023; commissioning is planned for 2024. Together with its Asian partner Melchers Taiwan, the German manufacturer Weltec Biopower is building a biogas plant in the southwest of the island state. According to the company, it is its first biogas plant in the country. Regarding the 360-kilowatt plant, the German […]

UK: Breakthrough Regarding “Plastics Waste to Hydrogen“

Academics from the Universities of Oxford and Cardiff are working with CarbonMeta Research Ltd. to turn plastic waste into clean hydrogen fuel and carbon nanomaterials. End of June, USA-based CarbonMeta Technologies Inc., a resource reclamation company that will process organic wastes, has announced that its British subsidiary, CarbonMeta Research Ltd., is commercializing a breakthrough technology […]

Hydrogen Fuel from Plastic Waste

Hydrogen is an energy carrier. This clean fuel can be produced from a variety of domestic resources, such as natural gas, nuclear power, biomass, and renewable power like solar and wind. Furthermore, there is a way to produce Hydrogen from plastic waste. As reported by Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore, scientists at the university […]

Partnership to Develop a Large-Scale Hydrogen-Based Value

The three enterprises ENGIE, OCI and EEW intend to realize a large-scale industrial value chain in Europe for the production of e-methanol. In May this year, ENGIE (the global point of reference in renewable hydrogen, low-carbon energy and services), OCI (Europe’s largest methanol producer), and EEW (a leading company in the production of electricity and […]