New Sorting Plant in Mexico

Operadora de Ferrocarril y Manejo de Rellenos (OFMRS) has joined forces with German manufacturer Stadler Anlagenbau to develop a plant in the city of Cuautla (Morelos, Mexico) capable of managing comprehensive waste treatment for 16 municipalities in Morelos and a small part of Mexico City. Mexico is one of the world’s ten largest producers of […]

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Forrec and the Treatment of End-of-Life Tires

Forrec produces single machines and complete plants for the treatment of any type of municipal and industrial solid waste, and for almost 15 years has been present on the market with reliable and effective solutions. Forrec‘s complete system allows obtaining a rubber granule with a size between 0.8 and 4 mm. With this recycled rubber […]

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Let your Baler Communicate

Orwak, a Swedish provider of solutions for sorting and recycling waste materials, suggests that balers should be able to communicate. That would simplify the collection of bales at customer sites in the recycling business. According to the company, which belongs to the Sulo group since January 2020, machine-to-machine (M2M) communication is part of everyday life. […]

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UNTHA and Metran: A New Lease of Life for Bobby Cars

Children love them, mostly the boys from the age of around two: What is meant are toy cars, called Bobby Cars. With UNTHA shredding technology, Metran gets the best out of rigid plastics compounds. The good news: Just because a Bobby Car is broken does not mean that it has reached the end of its […]

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Meldgaard Recycling Processed IBA in Portugal

Meldgaard Recycling has sent a mobile plant to Portugal to process 30,000 tons of incinerator bottom ash (IBA). The processed material is then used in the Portuguese building industry. In December and January, the mobile plant was separating ferrous and non-ferrous metals from the bottom ash received from Waste-to-Energy plants. The produced ash aggregate is […]

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Panizzolo Recycling Systems Software: Contributing to Profit­ability in Scrap Treatment

Panizzolo Recycling Systems integrates the internal development of a software system for the control and management of its recycling solutions. What were the reasons to add a software system to the company’s portfolio? On the occasion of the recent launch of the Compact Refining Plant, Panizzolo Recycling Systems discusses this question, among others, with Andrea […]

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Bjorstaddalen Opens Norway’s First AI-powered Robotic Sorting Station for Industrial Waste with ZenRobotics Technology

The new robotic sorting facility will substantially increase material recovery at Bjorstaddalen and make a major move from waste incineration toward a circular economy in the Nordic country. The AI-powered robots sort several fractions from industrial waste and are also trained to recognize new ones, opening up new business opportunities for the Norwegian waste industry […]

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Company Plans to Realize Rare-Earth Separation Technology

Canada-based Innovation Metals Corp. (IMC) has received funding support for the Phase-One commercialization of its “RapidSX” rare-earth element (“REE”) separation technology from its joint venture partner Hexagon Energy Materials Limited. According to the information, Innovation Metals Corp. executed a binding investment agreement whereby Hexagon has secured an option to acquire a 49 percent interest in […]

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Israel: No New Waste-to-Energy Plants

Some months ago, the Israeli Ministry of Environmental Protection had begun to promote the establishment of three energy recovery facilities in the country, which were to be realized at the Morasha Junction, in Hiriya, and in the Northern Ashdod Industrial Zone. These waste-to-energy facilities “will treat municipal solid waste that would otherwise be sent to […]

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New Waste Collection Vehicles for Singapore

The words “Don’t trash it, repurpose it” can be read on the new Mercedes-Benz Econic waste collection vehicles in Singapore, which were ordered by the local waste management company, Sembcorp. Today, around six million people live in the booming Asian metropolis Singapore where they produce just under 5,000 tons of waste – every day. That […]

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