PET flakes can now be processed without pre-drying into pellets using Coperion’s ZSK twin-screw extruders, the worldwide active German-based producer of machines and material handling systems underlined. Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plays an ever more important role in recycling, due to the large volume of packaging materials in use today. Before this material can be reprocessed, […]
International technology group Andritz has signed a cooperation agreement with USA-based CIRC LLC. The goal is to bundle each party’s expertise in textile recycling and upscale CIRC’s recycling technology for commercial use, the Austrian plant manufacturer gave account. The agreement has come about after many months of successful CIRC processing trials in various Andritz research […]
Norway-based Geminor and Norwegian waste company “Renovasjon i Grenland” (RIG) have agreed to handle up to 35,000 tons of residual waste for five years. The waste will be sorted into several recyclable fractions in one of Scandinavia’s newest robot sorting plants. As reported by Geminor, the resource management company will handle and treat approximately 7,000 […]
One of Britain’s leading car salvage, dismantling and recycling companies, SYNETIQ, recovers enough aluminum to create 346 million drinks cans per year. On average, the company extracts more than 5,200 tons of aluminum during the vehicle recycling process each year. This amount is sufficient to make 346 million drinks cans, a press release informed. Then […]
Since July this year, German company Biodegma is a brand of Sutco RecyclingTechnik GmbH. By taking this move, the developer and manufacturer of sorting and treatment plants has expanded its portfolio with additional technology in the field of biological waste treatment. After years of successful cooperation between the two companies and the realization of various […]
Following a multi-month commissioning phase, SMS group has handed over a greenfield recycling plant for waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) to Aurus in Mtsensk, Russia, a company of Ecopolis Corporation. According to the German-based plant supplier to the metallurgical industry for steel, aluminum, copper and metals, “the facility is the first of its kind […]
In Mexico, German H&S Anlagentechnik has handed over a large turnkey tank facility for storing PU (polyurethane) raw materials to the Ikea supplier Ikano Industry. As one of the world’s largest manufacturers of flexible PU slabstock foam, Ikano Industry produces mattresses for Ikea’s American market at the expanded site. “The new storage capacity, which was […]
Roster Ltd has been operating throughout Europe in the field of demolition for over thirty years. Additionally, the company deals with the recycling of scrap resulting from their demolition work. Keeping this in mind, Rosen Terziev, owner and founder of the Bulgarian company, decided to close the recovery cycle internally, making the most of the […]
Rubicon, a software platform that provides smart waste and recycling solutions to businesses and governments worldwide, has launched the new service “RubiconMarketplace” powered by specialty recycling solutions company g2 Revolution. In this way, independent businesses and residential customers were enabled to divert hard-to-recycle items such as aerosol cans, plastic bags, light bulbs, personal protective equipment […]
Cast aluminum, tool manufacturing and radiation shielding: Newly patented manufacturing process of a tungsten alloy (WNiFe/WNiCu) enables additive manufacturing of complex components. Tungsten alloys (WNiFe/WNiCu) are used because of their corrosion resistance against molten metal and high thermal conductivity for the chill-mold casting processing of aluminum. But also in tool manufacture and for shielding from […]