recyclingnews – Page 31 – GLOBAL RECYCLING

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 […]

New Technology to Maintain the Mechanical Strength of Plastic Waste

Japan-based chemical company Green Science Alliance has received a license agreement from Fukuoka University to carry out a new recycling technology that can recover the mechanical strength of plastic waste relatively simple and effective. Professor Shigeru Yao from Fukuoka University, Japan, has been researching plastic waste from the polymer physics aspect of view. Therefore, the […]

Recycling of Slags and Furnace Bricks in Non-Ferrous Metallurgy

Haver & Boecker Niagara: With a view to optimized process flow for the recycling of non-ferrous metals. Non-ferrous metals are indispensable for the economy of highly technical industrialized countries. On the one hand, they provide a basis for existing technologies in electronics and electrical engineering, mechanical and automotive engineering, and the construction sector. And on […]

Poland: Aim to Triple the Recycling Capacity of Beverage Cartons

The investment in a complete recycling solution is set to improve recycling throughout Central and Eastern Europe, Tetra Pak and Stora Enso informed in a joined press release. Stora Enso will invest 17 million Euro into a new repulping line at Stora Enso’s Ostrołęka production unit in Poland. As reported, the line will triple the […]

PolyAl: A Twitter Forges Ahead

The recycling of used beverage containers like TetraPak is difficult. Parts of these liquid food cartons are compounds, arduous to separate and to recover sorted. Even after recovering 75 percent of cardboard, a foil mixture of polyethylene (PE) and aluminum (AL), as well as high-density polyethylene (HDPE) originating from the caps, remains. Is this mixture […]