World Recycling Forum: Sustainable Thinking

Xstrata Copper bills its Horne Smelter in Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, Canada, as “the world’s largest processor of electronic scrap containing copper and precious metals.” Speaking during a session of the World Recycling Forum, held in Hong Kong in mid-November, Paul Healey of Xstrata outlined how the company has put a sustainability plan in place that ideally ensures that the surrounding community understands the smelter’s role in the recycling loop. Healey said its Horne Smelter takes “relatively low-grade materials,” containing perhaps 20 percent copper, “and upgrades the material to 99 percent pure copper, which then goes to Xstrata’s Montreal refinery to become finished product.” About 85 percent of the feedstock for the Horne Smelter consists of copper concentrate that averages about 24 percent copper content, Healey added, with the remaining 15 percent of feedstock being electronic scrap and circuit boards, including material from Xstrata Recycling’s facilities in California and Rhode Island. In Rouyn-Noranda and surrounding communities, Healey said Xstrata has implemented a sustainability policy that “extends to asset management, product stewardship, contractor management, procurement” and strengthening ties with the community and government agencies

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Cascades Closing Converting Plant

The Canadian paper company Cascades Inc. has announced plans to close one of its corrugated converting operations operated under its Norampac Division in Le Gardeur, Quebec.

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Cascades Investing in New Recycled Board Mill in New York

Cascades Inc. , Kingsey Falls, Que., has announced that its Norampac Mill LLC division is investing in Greenpac Mill LLC, a company created with the Fund d

Cascades Consolidating Operations in New England

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Cascades Selling its Dopaco Converting Business

Cascades Inc., Kingsey Falls, Quebec, has entered into an agreement to sell its Dopaco Inc.

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