Paper Recycling Conference: Less News, Less Quality?

A sudden and steep decline in old newspapers (ONP) has caused several dilemmas, according to three executives representing large-volume recycling companies. At the opening session at the 2011 Paper Recycling Conference held in Chicago in late October, Al Metauro of Toronto-based Cascades Recovery, noted that in one major city in which Cascades operates, ONP has dropped from making up 81 percent of “blue box” post-residential material seven or eight years ago to just 38 percent today

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Liberty Tire Recycling Appoints Western Regional Account Executive

The tire recycling firm Liberty Tire Recycling , headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pa., has appointed Dave Troyanek its western regional account executive. In his position, Troyanek will work to expand Liberty Tire’s footprint in the Western United States by creating visibility for the company’s line of recycled rubber products, according to a Liberty statement

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Study Finds Nonrecycled Plastics Can Fuel Alternative Energy Industry

A 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.

BIR Autumn Roundtables: Ferrous Demand Likely to Return

Speaking 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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Allshred Services Makes Addition to Sales Team

Allshred Services , a provider of secure document destruction services, based in Maumee, Ohio, has hired Ed Cassidy as an Information Security Consultant.

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Ferrous Prices Remain Stable in October

Stability was the most common trait for ferrous scrap prices for the seventh consecutive month, although most grades in most regions experienced a slight downward tilt in October. October spot pricing for ferrous scrap showed slight variations from September, but stayed in the same narrow range in which it has been since April 2011. By late October, some recyclers were expressing concern about declining melt rates at domestic mills, but purchase prices seemed to indicate that demand has been sufficient enough to keep the market stable.

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Personnel Notes

BHS Expands Projects Group Team Bulk Handling Systems (BHS), Eugene, Ore., a supplier of processing systems to the recycling industry, has named Scott Sweistal project manager.

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Repeat Pattern

(Per gross ton for No. 2 shredded scrap, defined as 0.17 percent or greater copper content) September prices for spot ferrous scrap purchases looked a lot like those of the previous six months. In late September, however, recyclers began anticipating a drop in scrap prices to mirror flat-to-declining prices for finished steel and dropping prices for copper and some other traded metals

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Repeat Pattern

In a Holding Pattern

*Average monthly settlement price, cash buyer; U.S. dollars per metric ton. Source: London Metal Exchange, www.lme.com This summer, dealers were concerned that prices for copper and aluminum scrap could tumble

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Worldsteel Elects New Officers

World Steel Association (Worldsteel) board of directors has elected a new list of officers for the 2011/2012 year. The announcement was made during the Worldsteel’s 45th Annual Conference, held in Paris in October, 2011.

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