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There are over 300 battery recycling units in China
and only a very small proportion of these can claim
an annual production capacity greater than 20 000
tonnes, which is well short of the international norm.
In effect, plants using backward technologies still
represent the mainstream of this industry in China.
This article looks at obstacles to the development of a
more modern battery recycling industry in China and
to possible solutions.
What to do about automotive shredder residues, or
ASR? This question has dominated international
meetings for a number of years as Europe’s legisla-
tors have sought to tighten restrictions on materials
sent to landfill. For its part, Maind Srl of Italy has
been testing a technology which, it believes, could
prove hugely effective in this field.
Power generation problems, labour disputes, safety-
related stoppages and a number of other issues are
adversely affecting production of the platinum group
metals (PGMs). However, recovery of platinum, pal-
ladium and rhodium from automotive catalytic con-
verters is continuing to climb year on year. This arti-
cle reviews the key factors influencing the PGM mar-
kets and is based on a report written by Ashok
Kumar and Rajesh Seth of US-based A-1 Specialized
Services & Supplies, Inc. – a leading global player in
the recycling of PGMs
The car recycling industry continues to
struggle to find the right solution to
achieve the 95% EU recovery target for
end-of-life vehicles which becomes effec-
tive by 2015. The issue of how to extract
those extra few percentage points kept dele-
gates busy at the recent 8th International
Automobile Recycling Congress (IARC) in
Munich. Also discussed were the results of car
recycling trials in a number of countries and the
issue of hard-to-recycle automotive shredder
residues.
In this issue
Viewpoint 3
Events Calendar 6
News 10
Product News 27
Magazine Round Up 30
Steel and scrap in the EU 55
China: steel and the building boom 67
Aluminium recycling in China 69
Supplier: Master Magnets 71
In the next issue 98
Markets Analysis
Ferrous scrap 74
Stainless steel scrap 84
Non-fer rous scrap 88
Recovered paper 92
Textiles 95
Treating ASR: Maind buoyed by test results 38
32
Car recycling:
still striving for
top gear
I N T H I S I S S U E
Imagine: you accept a load of scrap tyres through one
gate of your yard; and at the other gate, you fill up
your supplier’s truck at your very own petrol station
using diesel derived from those same tyres. Well,
Global Resource Corporation of the USA has devel-
oped an emission-free and low-energy technique for
converting used plastics and rubber – and perhaps
even auto shredder residue (ASR) – into black gold.
Used tyres and plastics: a source of black gold? 40
Catalyst recycling ever more crucial to PGM supply 46
With the supply of scrap for steelmaking expected to
become increasingly short in the years ahead, there
is a belief that market opportunities will widen for
producers of direct reduced iron (DRI). In this article,
the author offers his personal view on the outlook for
DRI as a raw material used in steelmaking.
Scrap shortfall will open door wider to DRI 56
Lead-acid battery recycling in China 62
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