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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
Hitachi Zosen Inova (HZI) and the Aarau-Lenzburg Regional Waste Disposal Association (Gemeindeverband für Kehrichtbeseitigung Region Aarau-Lenzburg or GEKAL) will produce hydrogen at the waste-to-energy plant in Buchs (canton of Aargau). It is planned that the first hydrogen will be produced at the beginning of 2023. “Full operations will commence a few months later in the […]
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Neste Oyj have agreed to build a technology demonstration facility. Power-to-Liquids technologies are on their way to commercialization in scale, Neste underlined in June this year. E-fuels would offer a way to expand the carbon-neutral transport fuel pool beyond biomass-based renewable fuels to replace fossil fuels in existing […]