Ferrous markets have seen a remarkable turnaround in fortunes in the past year with EU steel production declining; Turkish production and steel scrap imports also down; and a contrasting growth in Indian scrap buying, BIR’s Ferrous Division was told in Dubai on October 17, 2022. In a presentation entitled “Steel scrap markets in 2022: Turkish […]
During the recent meeting of the BIR Ferrous Division on 17 October 2022 in Dubai, Rolf Willeke, BIR Ferrous Statistics Advisor, outlined the key findings in the January-June 2022 update of the 13th edition of “World Steel Recycling in Figures”. Global crude steel production totalled 949.4 million tonnes in January-June 2022 for a decline of […]
In July this year, Lounais-Suomen Jätehuolto (LSJH) in Paimio, has successfully started up a new Andritz pilot line for research and development work on post-consumer textile recycling. The Exel tearing machine for post-consumer textile waste can process up to 500 kilograms per hour for spinning quality and up to one ton per hour for nonwoven […]
At this year’s Bauma exhibition (October 24 – 30, 2022; Trade Fair Center Messe München), Liebherr will present material handlers for diverse applications. With the LH 22 M Industry Litronic Liebherr – one of the largest construction machine manufacturers in the world – presents a material handler for efficient use in tree care and the […]
In June this year, the European Patent Office (EPO) honored Belgian entrepreneur Victor Dewulf (25) and British computer scientist Peter Hedley (27) with joint first place in the inaugural Young Inventors prize. The two entrepreneurs – CEO Victor Dewulf and CTO Peter Hedley of the company Recycleye – have developed an intelligent recognition and sorting […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]