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LEVAND STEEL
& SUPPLY
CORPORATION
Levand House � 1849 Crestwood Blvd.
Irondale, AL 35210
800-741-7741
205-956-1111
fax 205-956-2256
[email protected]
ESTABLISHED 1934
WORLDWIDE SUPPLIER OF
SHREDDER
REPLACEMENT
CASTINGS
REDESIGNED PARTS
FOR MAXIMUM
WEAR LIFE AND
COST EFFICIENCY
LEVAND STEEL
& SUPPLY
CORPORATION
Levand House � 1849 Crestwood Blvd.
Irondale, AL 35210
800-741-7741
fax 205-956-2256
[email protected]
ESTABLISHED 1934
WORLDWIDE SUPPLIER OF
SHREDDER
REPLACEMENT
CASTINGS
� HAMMERS
� GRATES
� BREAKER BARS
� REJECT DOORS
LEVAND STEEL
& SUPPLY
CORPORATION
Levand House � 1849 Crestwood Blvd.
Irondale, AL 35210
800-741-7741
fax 205-956-2256
[email protected]
ESTABLISHED 1934
WORLDWIDE SUPPLIER OF
SHREDDER
REPLACEMENT
CASTINGS
� HAMMERS
� GRATES
� BREAKER BARS
� REJECT DOORS
LEVAND STEEL
& SUPPLY
CORPORATION
Levand House � 1849 Crestwood Blvd.
Irondale, AL 35210
800-741-7741
fax 205-956-2256
[email protected]
ESTABLISHED 1934
WORLDWIDE SUPPLIER OF
SHREDDER
REPLACEMENT
CASTINGS
� HAMMERS
� GRATES
� BREAKER BARS
� REJECT DOORS
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Dross recycling plant on
stream in New Zealand
A Bahrain-based company is targeting the expan-
sion of its dross recycling operations throughout the
world after opening a multi-million-dollar plant at Tiwai
Point in New Zealand. The Taha Asia Pacifi c (TAP) recy-
cling plant at New Zealand Aluminium Smelters is
recycling aluminium dross as well as the 40 000
tonnes-plus stored in landfi lls at Tiwai.
Frank Pollmann, Managing Director of TAP’s parent
company Taha International, said at the opening cer-
emony that a similar plant had been running in Bahrain
for the past seven years but that Tiwai represented its
fi rst overseas installation. The latter had been expect-
ed to cost US$ 5 million to build but the fi nal tally was
‘well in excess of that’, he confi rmed.
Mr Pollmann expressed the hope that the plant in New
Zealand would serve as a launch-pad for export market
development. The corporation was already in talks with
a rolling mill in Soha, Oman, where construction could
begin next year, while it was also bidding to process
dross in Australia, he noted. Meanwhile, TAP’s Gen-
eral Manager Mark Egginton said the company
employed 22 people to process the dross but that the
number was expected to rise to around 30 as produc-
tion increased. The metal recovered through the recy-
cling process will be returned to the smelter and the
rest is used in the manufacture of phosphate fertiliser.
Taha is setting up a fertiliser plant in Invercargill and
hopes to have it completed in late November.
Dross is delivered to the plant from the smelter and
transported to a crusher where it is broken down. Wet
dross from the smelter’s landfi ll is fi rst dried and then
put through a separation process; metal is returned to
the smelter and the rest is stored to be used to make
fertiliser. www.tahacorp.com
Rio Tinto’s aluminium smelter will supply dross to the TAP recycling plant.
New techniques needed to
recover strategic metals
Thirteen Germany organisations, including private
companies, technical universities and research institutes,
have founded a recycling ‘cluster’ called REWIMET.
The group’s objective is to stimulate science and research
by developing recycling strategies and processes for
what it defi nes as economically strategic metals, from
collection through to industrial reuse. This should help
ensure secondary availability of these metals.
Highly complex components in some electrical and
electronic devices means that there is more some met-
als already in use than there is left in the earth, REWI-
MET points out. New recovery processes will therefore
be needed to recover metals such as germanium,
indium, gallium and rhenium.
‘A single company cannot do that. We need partner-
ships and it is necessary to combine our knowledge,’
said REWIMET President Dr Reimund Westphal.
www.tu-clausthal.de
Not such a grand child
A woman in a supermarket finds herself
walking behind a grandfather and his
badly-behaved three-year-old grandson. It is
obvious to her that he has his hands full with
the child screaming for sweets, biscuits and
fizzy drinks, but all the time the old man
keeps the same controlled voice, saying:
‘Easy, William. We won’t be long. Take it easy,
my boy.’
After yet another outburst, she hears the
grandfather calmly say: ‘It’s okay, William,
just a couple more minutes and we’ll be out
of here. Hang in there, my boy.’ At the check-
out, the little terror is throwing items out of
the supermarket trolley, but still his granddad
keeps his cool, saying: ‘William, William,
relax and don’t get too upset. We’ll be home
in five minutes. Stay cool, my boy.’
Very impressed, the woman goes outside
where the grandfather is loading his groceries
and the boy into the car. She approaches the
elderly gentleman and says: ‘It’s none of my
business, but you were amazing in there. I
don’t know how you did it. The whole time
you managed to keep your composure, and
no matter how loud and disruptive he got,
you just kept the same soothing voice.
William is very lucky to have you as his
grandpa.’
‘Thanks,’ says the grandfather, ‘but I am
William … this little sod’s name is Kevin.’
‘My friend’s son is now
an ‘entrepreneur’. That’s
what you’re called when
you don’t have a job.’
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