Online Tool for Digital Monitoring and Analysis of Metal Recycling Machines

Metso Outotec’s Metal Recycling business has realized a new Index operating and production data collection system, which transfers relevant data from the recycling machine directly to the customer’s equipment. According to the company, Metso Outotec Metal Recycling has taken the next step in terms of digitization and, with Index, introduced an intelligent way to increase […]

Mobile Trommel Screen TRM831

The conference and trade show “COMPOST 2022”, held in Austin (Texas) in January this year, was the venue for the launch of the new EDGE TRM831, the biggest trommel screen the Irish company EDGE has produced to date. According to the manufacturer, the new mobile trommel screen offers high production rates with extensive stockpiling capacities […]

Orkel: The Portable Solution for Adaptable Waste Management

Starting as an agricultural machinery manufacturer, Orkel has developed its equipment for the waste management sector due to the skyrocketing demand for a portable solution. Today, Orkel’s industrial compactor range provides machinery equipped to handle household waste, which has been widely implemented into Taiwan’s waste management strategy. Working closely with the customers allowed for a […]

Plastics: From Recycling to Upcycling

Researchers have developed a clean and cost-effective way to upcycle used plastic, transforming it into valuable nanomaterial and high-quality fuel, Australian RMIT University reported. As stated, the new method from researchers at the university can produce high-value products from plastic – carbon nanotubes and clean liquid fuel – while simultaneously upcycling agricultural and organic waste. […]

Future Facility for Sweden’s Plastic Recycling

With the ability to handle 200,000 tons of plastic packaging per year, the future “Site Zero” recycling facility in Motala, Sweden, will be the largest and most modern plastic recycling facility worldwide. That is the conviction of the Swedish company “Swedish Plastic Recycling” (Svensk Plaståtervinning), which is continuing to invest in the treatment of plastics […]

Erema at Chinaplas 2022

The Austrian manufacturer will present solutions to meet the needs of the Chinese recycling market. This year, Shanghai is the venue of Chinaplas from 25 to 28 April, making this trade fair a home game for the Erema subsidiary in China. The team from the company’s Shanghai subsidiary will present the entire range of recycling […]

4S Shredders Made in Italy

According to the Italian company Satrindtech, the manufacturer provides four-shaft shredders, which offer modular design and flexibility for several applications. “The 4S shredders offer major pluses that will surely be appreciated by operators in the recycling business,” the manufacturer of industrial shredders and plants for waste processing underlined in a press release. “Its innovative concept […]

Keynote Announced as the Rethinking Materials Speaking Faculty Explores Routes to Ending Plastic Pollution

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: The Rt. Hon. Jo Churchill MP, Resources and Waste Minister at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) will give the opening keynote address at the first in-person Rethinking Materials Summit on May 4-5. Welcoming the summit audience with opening remarks, Jo Churchill will set the scene for two days of […]

Start-up of another Biogas Plant in Japan

German-based company Weltec Biopower GmbH has commissioned a biogas plant in Saitama Prefecture, 40 kilometers north of Tokyo. The facility – which is equipped with a 450-kilowatt cogeneration power plant – is the fourth project to be rolled out by the German manufacturer in Japan. In terms of substrates, the operator uses organic leftovers from […]

“Bulkinspector” Ensures Process Safety

Precise measurement of the (skeletal) density of bulk materials and other solids to determine the correct parameters for production or further processing still represents a challenge for personnel and technology. At the same time, the degree of precision in determining this data often affects the profitability of the process, especially with small quantities and expensive […]

Eriez Celebrates 80 Years in Business

The company boasts a rich history of dedication to its local and global footprint. The Eriez story began in 1942 when founder O.F. Merwin installed a permanent magnet in a grain mill. The company today, built of a workforce of more than 900 individuals located throughout 12 wholly owned international subsidiaries on six continents, is […]

TOMRA Recycling Brings Waste Wood Full Circle with Groundbreaking Sorting Solutions

TOMRA Recycling has further strengthened its waste wood sorting solutions with a deep learning-based technology that utilizes the expansive power of its artificial neural networks. As a pioneering add-on solution for AUTOSORT®, GAIN deep learning technology extracts numerous material characteristics of wood chips as they move along the high-speed conveyor belt and analyzes them for […]

Fondi-Metal Srl: Manufacturing Secondary Raw Materials

Fondi Metal, located in the industrial area of Carini, a few kilometers from Palermo, has a long history as a family-run business. Panizzolo spoke to the owners Baldassarre Marino, his son Paolo and his son-in-law Piero, all of them are pioneers in metal recycling in Sicily. Fondi Metal was able to face and overcome all […]

PICVISA Committed to the Circular Fashion Economy

“The equivalent of one garbage truck of textiles is wasted every second, while less than one percent of the clothing is recycled into new clothes”, says a report that informs about a new vision for a circular system.*) The circular economy model calls for a new textiles economy, in which clothes are designed differently, worn […]

NTU Singapore Scientists Developed Upcycling Method for E-Waste Plastics

E-waste plastics are rarely recycled due to their complex composition and hazardous additives. Scientists at Singaporean Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have developed a new use for e-waste plastics: repurposing them as an alternative to the plastics used in laboratory cell culture containers, such as Petri dishes. The team of NTU Singapore-CEA Alliance for Research in […]