Entries by msv2016

Volkswagen Group Establishes European Firm for its Battery Business

The company’s scope will include new business models – and partnerships – based around reusing discarded car batteries and recycling the valuable raw materials they contain. The new European company (Société Européenne) will have to consolidate activities along the value chain for batteries – from processing raw materials to developing a unified Volkswagen battery to […]

Recycled Graphite for New Batteries

If the experts are right, the mineral graphite will have a steep “career” in 2022. This mineral is the key element that forms the anode of lithium batteries. “Without it, there will be no energy revolution, and the trillion-dollar EV market might not exist,” third party publisher and news dissemination service provider FN Media Group, […]

Re-Gen MD Endorses Infrastructure Minister’s Decision on the ARC21 Planning Application

Joseph Doherty, Managing Director at Re-Gen Waste, said, “I welcome the Infrastructure Minister’s announcement on the planning application for the incinerator at Mallusk (Northern Ireland). I believe that increased targets in recycling, technological innovation, capacity in the current system and changes in Government policy mean that there is no need for the incinerator proposed by […]

EuRIC Welcomes the Proposal to Make Sustainable Products the Norm in Europe

The European Recycling Industries’ Confederation (EuRIC) welcomes the Circular Economy Package that was published by the European Commission on 30 March and aims at making products more sustainable in the European Union. EuRIC strongly welcomes the increased emphasis placed on recycled content in products as it is a key enabler to boost investments in recycling […]

Ecoplasteam: New Idea for Recycling Multi-Layer Packaging

Multi-layer packaging like “tetrapaks” for beverages and food is still a challenge for the circular economy. However, the Italian company Ecoplasteam has found a solution. Such packaging for beverages and food consists of paper, polyethylene and aluminum. While paper mills take off the paper layer, the mixture of polyethylene and aluminum (PolyAl, sometimes referred to […]

France: New Recycling Plant Expected to Start in 2023

Plastic Energy is building an advanced recycling plant in northern France. The large-scale recycling facility, which will be adjacent to ExxonMobil’s Notre Dame de Gravenchon petrochemical complex, is to have a capacity of 25,000 tons of plastic waste per annum. There are plans to scale up the facility to 33,000 tons in the future. In […]

Spain: Strategic Alliance between GCR Group and Sintac Recycling

GCR Group manufactures sustainable plastic solutions for the plastics processing industry and has acquired a participation in Sintac Recycling, which offers a wide range of 100 percent recycled plastics. The strategic alliance between both Spanish companies would respond to the objective of expanding the offer of sustainable and circular solutions to provide greater added value […]

New Diagnostics Tool for Batteries of E-Vehicles

The new analysis software BattMan ReLife is used as a means of initial diagnosis in battery recycling at the pilot plant of Volkswagen Group Components in Salzgitter (Germany). A high-voltage battery may be reused in a vehicle either in whole or in part. That depends on the capacity that the inspection system detects. The battery […]

DGrade Plastic Flake Recycling Factory Opens in KIZAD to Support a Closed Loop in the UAE

DGrade, the UAE company known for recycling plastic into sustainable clothing, has announced the opening of a 4,000 square meter recycling factory in Khalifa Industrial Zone Abu Dhabi (KIZAD). The facility will process up to 1 billion plastic bottles a year into recycled plastic flake for the company’s Greenspun™ yarn, and to provide material for […]

USA: Project to Modernize Recycling Collection in Baltimore

Funded by a public-private partnership, the project would advance safer, more efficient, and equitable recycling access for nearly 200,000 Baltimore households, The Recycling Partnership informed. Last year, the City of Baltimore had launched the delivery of nearly 200,000 curbside recycling carts, which was expected to be completed in early 2022. The project (worth about 10 […]