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BIR Autumn Roundtables: Stainless Production Falls Short of Expectations
Posted on November 3rd, 2011 No commentsThe scale of China’s stainless steel scrap usage will remain dependent on the LME (London Metals Exchange) nickel price, according to the guest speaker at the Bureau of International Recycling’s (BIR) Stainless Steel & Special Alloys Round-Table in Munich held in late October. Sven Tollin, chief statistician at the Portugal-based International Nickel Study Group (INSG), charted the steep rise in China’s nickel pig iron (NPI) production – from zero in 2005 to around 170,000 metric tons in 2010 – and also the “enormous” decline in the country’s stainless scrap imports from approaching 380,000 metric tons in 2009 to nearer 80,000 metric tons last year. NPI became a preferred option in China when LME nickel prices were higher than, typically, around $20,000 per metric ton, it was suggested
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BIR Autumn Roundtables: Plastics Committee Focuses on WEEE
Posted on November 3rd, 2011 No commentsThe spotlight was turned on waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) during the Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) Plastics Round-Table in Munich in late October as two guest speakers approached the issue from different angles. Rainer Koehnlechner, owner and managing director of separation specialist at Germany-based Hamos GmbH, explained that it was possible to derive high-purity polymers from mixed WEEE plastics.
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Vecoplan Promotes Wolfe
Posted on November 3rd, 2011 No commentsVecoplan has appointed Jeff Wolfe to the position of North American sales manager for the company’s waste, alternative fuels and energy division. Wolfe joined Vecoplan in 2003 and previously held the position of national sales manager of the waste/paper division
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Sonoco Recycling Acquires American Recycling of South Carolina LLC
Posted on November 3rd, 2011 No commentsHartsville, S.C.-based Sonoco Recycling Inc.
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Study Finds Nonrecycled Plastics Can Fuel Alternative Energy Industry
Posted on November 3rd, 2011 No commentsA new study conducted by the Earth Engineering Center (EEC) of Columbia University, New York, and sponsored by the American Chemistry Council (ACC), Washington, D.C., has found that converting the nonrecycled plastics that are currently landfilled each year in the United States to energy using currently available technologies could provide at least enough energy to fuel 6 million cars annually.
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Freudenberg Touts Recycled-Content Successes
Posted on November 3rd, 2011 No commentsFreudenberg North America Ltd. Partnership , the North American holding company for Freudenberg & Co. of Weinheim, Germany, says its family of companies is consuming a growing amount of plastic scrap to make a wide range of products
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Ben Weitsman & Son Extends Hours
Posted on October 28th, 2011 No commentsBen Weitsman & Son, Owego, N.Y., has announced that starting Nov. 6, 2011, all of its scrap recycling facilities will be open for customers on Sunday. Previously, only Weitsman’s Scranton, Pa., scrap yard was open on Sundays.
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BIR Autumn Roundtables: Ferrous Demand Likely to Return
Posted on October 28th, 2011 No commentsSpeaking to attendees at the Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) Ferrous Division meeting in Munich in October, Tom Bird of Van Dalen Recycling in the U.K. said encouragement should be derived from the fact that “business is still being done, reflecting demand,” and that although prices have fallen, current levels “are not as low as some were forecasting.” Bird, who also is president of the European Ferrous Recovery and Recycling Federation (EFR),said compared to the crisis of 2008, “our customers are more robust, more consolidated and far more likely to continue to perform [even] in a falling marketplace.” Indian steel production growth is likely to be restricted to from 5 to 6 percent in the current year rather than the 10 to 12 percent originally anticipated, reported Zain Nathani of the Nathani Group of Companies. Having noted that many of the country’s steel mills had cut production in response to lower iron ore availability, the speaker went on to say that India’s ferrous scrap imports fell a fraction below 4 million metric tons in the 2010/11 financial year, backing off from around 4.75 million metric tons in 2009/10
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BIR Autumn Roundtables: Fiber Quality Concerns are in the Mix
Posted on October 28th, 2011 No commentsBureau of International Recycling (BIR) Paper Division President Ranjit Baxi of U.K.-based J&H Sales International has expressed concern that, for quality reasons, European recovered fiber exports to China are coming under increasing pressure from material supplied by other regions of the world. If China were to cut back on its imports, Europe was likely to be “the first to suffer,” Baxi told attendees of the BIR Paper Division meeting in Munich in October. Third-quarter GDP growth in China was the slowest in two years, Baxi also noted, calling it proof that even the world’s main driver of demand for recovered fibre has not been immune to the latest economic crisis.
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