Posts from Kirstin Linnenkoper

17-10-2018

Non-ferrous market may recover if ‘blunt’ tariff axe is put away

Aluminium prices are predicted to be between US$ 1 910 and US$ 2 380 per tonne next year while copper…

15-10-2018

SungEel MCC Americas (SMCC) is launching a new recycling site with a processing capacity of 5000 tonnes of lithium-ion batteries…

12-10-2018

Nickel price volatility has been ‘pretty intense’ over the last couple of months and that won’t change any time soon,…

12-10-2018

Business Rubber

The American market for rubber infill saw a reduction of nearly 30% over the last few years because of negative…

12-10-2018

Business Textiles

The Bulgarian Government has proposed and drafted legislation to place a levy on all used clothing put on the market…

11-10-2018

Research Technology

The worldwide optical sorter market will be worth at least US$ 3 billion (EUR 2.6 billion) by 2024, according to Global…

10-10-2018

Business Plastics

‘The production of plastics is growing so much that we could be producing 1100 million tonnes by 2050,’ according to…

10-10-2018

Business Plastics

A new plastics recycling project has been backed with EUR 10 million by the European Commission’s research and innovation programme…

10-10-2018

Plastics Research

Over 75% of the 10 000 litres of waste collected during a three-month-long Greenpeace clean-up project was plastic. Almost 65%…

09-10-2018

The volume of US material among all Turkish ferrous scrap imports was 20.3% in August, up from the average of…

09-10-2018

Business Plastics

Big cities are known to generate a lot of trash and traffic. The Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality has revealed its plan…