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Paper Division: Dramatic Price Falls as Mills Face Soaring Energy Costs
The implications of high energy prices were raised during several sessions at the BIR World Recycling Convention in Dubai but it was during the Paper Division plenary session on 18 October 2022 that the issue dominated proceedings. The tone was set immediately by Division President Francisco Donoso, of Dolaf Servicios Verdes S.L. of Spain in […]
Middle East “Being Transformed” by Producers’ Sustainability Drive
The increasing trend for primary producers to transition towards secondary metal feedstocks and more sustainable production processes was reinforced at the BIR Non-Ferrous Metals Division meeting in Dubai on 18 October, 2022. Presentations from two leading non-ferrous operators in the United Arab Emirates underlined this switch towards scrap, renewable energy sources, and customers increasingly prepared […]
The EU Should Reaffirm the Role of Waste-to-Energy in the Circular Economy
ESWET welcomes the European Commission’s 2023 Work Programme and the renewal of the Green Deal’s ambitions. The current energy crisis has brought to light the necessity and the urgency of accelerating the energy transition. This requires maximising the use of all clean sources of energy, including the affordable and efficient electricity and heat supplied by […]
Stainless Steel & Special Alloys Committee: New Applications Offer Promise of Bright Stainless Steel Future
Tackling excessive water leakage rates in major cities has been advocated as a way of boosting the stainless steel industry and offering fresh market opportunities for scrap recyclers and traders. The challenge of losing huge volumes of such a vital resource as water was set out at the BIR Stainless Steel and Special Alloys Committee […]
Ferrous Division: Shifting Markets for Scrap as Traders Look East
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 […]
Ferrous Division: “World Steel Recycling in Figures” – Latest Update of the 13th Edition
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 […]
UAE: New Battery Recycling Facility
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. […]
Stora Enso and Northvolt Work on Wood-Based Batteries
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 […]
Goal: Closing the Loop on Polypropylene
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 […]
The Netherlands: AVR and HaloSep Cooperate
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 […]