The Waste Management Sector Is not at its Full Capacity of Producing Energy

Whereas Member States reached yesterday a political agreement on a voluntary reduction of natural gas demand by 15% this winter, and the European Commission has recently presented the REPowerEU Plan in response to the hardships and global energy market disruption caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the waste management sector is not (yet) at its […]

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First PET Bottle-to-Bottle Recycling Line in Ghana

Mohinani Group, a third-generation family business group, ordered two Starlinger recoSTAR PET 165 HC iV+ PET bottle-to-bottle recycling lines for its new plants in Ghana and Nigeria. The two new systems will be delivered in 2023 and installed at the Mohinani Group companies Polytank Ghana Ltd. based in Accra, Ghana, and Sonnex Packaging Nigeria Ltd. […]

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Technip Energies and Clariant Cooperate

In April this year, Technip Energies and Clariant announced that they have signed a cooperation agreement for the implementation of Clariant’s sunliquid cellulosic ethanol technology. According to a press release, sunliquid customers “can benefit from combining Clariant’s proven technology with Technip Energies’ deep experience as an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor to build advanced […]

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Faurecia and Veolia Intend to Use Recycled Plastics in Automotive Interiors

French automotive supplier Faurecia, a company of the Group FORVIA, and Veolia have signed a Cooperation and Research Agreement to jointly develop compounds for automotive interior modules, aiming to achieve an average of 30 percent of recycled content by 2025. In 2011, Faurecia introduced a range of bio-composite cockpit solutions with NAFILean. More than a […]

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Ghana: A Wastewater Treatment Plant in Kumasi

In 2019, the Hungarian Pureco-Unit Consortium started its first major investment on the African continent in Kumasi, Ghana. The facility, dedicated to the city’s untreated wastewater, was designed and built under the name “Septopure technology”. As reported by Pureco Group, the wastewater treatment plant put into operation last year is a “significant milestone for both […]

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USA: Novelis builds an Advanced Recycling Center

The investment is to support North American automotive customers and reduce carbon emissions. International American aluminum company Novelis Inc. is building a “highly advanced recycling center” for automotive in Guthrie (Kentucky). With an annual casting capacity of 240,000 tons of sheet ingot, the facility (investment: 365 million US-Dollar) is expected to reduce the company‘s carbon […]

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Rwanda to Host the World Circular Economy Forum 2022

For the first time ever, this year’s World Circular Economy Forum will take place in Africa. WCEF2022 will be organized jointly by the Republic of Rwanda, the African Circular Economy Alliance (ACEA) and The Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra, with international partners. The main event will be hosted by Rwanda, one of ACEA’s founding members. The […]

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German Europress Umwelttechnik GmbH Strikes a Positive Conclusion from Participating in the IFAT 2022

“We would like to thank all guests who visited us at our stand. The trade fair was not only a wonderful opportunity to introduce our machines and services and to present our latest innovations, but above all the personal conversation and the opportunity to exchange expertise is always valuable and has given us great pleasure!” […]

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Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling

The energy sector has turned to alternative vehicles due to reasons such as the increase in the number of vehicles in the world, rapidly decreasing oil resources, wars, and increasing pollution rates all over the world. Electric vehicles that developed for this purpose, have come to the fore in the production sector because their pollutant […]

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New STADLER PX Conveyor Raises the Bar on Purity in Sensor Sorting

The new STADLER PX acceleration conveyor integrates the best features of the BB and DB conveyors for optical sensor sorting and takes purity to new heights. The new STADLER PX acceleration conveyor meets the demand for higher throughput in sensor-based automatic sorting, which can operate at higher working speeds. To achieve the desired result, STADLER […]

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